Road Side Ministry

Just today while running some errands near our home here in West Tennessee, I happened to see a road side vegetable stand, having a little time on my hands thought I would stop by and pay a visit to the ole gentleman and his wife who were sitting there tending to their vegetable stand, thinking that there may be a few items that I could take home. 

We visited for a while and exchanged a few stories of things that were going on in our lives, we were really  just having a good little friendly talk. Every now and then, trucks would go by and make so much road noise that during those times it was really hard to hear what was being said by either one of us so we had to talk loud.

I looked around at the tomatoes, onions, purple hull peas and some of the other items that he had for sale and really couldn't decide what I even wanted, if anything!

So while we were talking about the goodness of the Lord, the thought entered my mind to sing for them one of Granddaddy's old songs that he wrote many many years ago, I knew that I had to do a little timing of the traffic so the noise level wouldn't be so loud that they would not be able to hear me.

As I looked down the road, here was my chance, nothing coming either way, so I started singing, " I dreamed I climbed to heaven on that ladder of Gold, my dream was like the bible foretold..." when I got through singing both of them including myself, had big ole tears streaming down our faces and they were so appreciative of me for taking the time to visit with them and especially sing.

Now perhaps many of you reading this today can remember the old saying " Singing for your Supper " well! when I left he put two beautiful cantaloupes in a bag and said here son, we want to give these to you.

You see what just a few minutes can do in a persons life? At a road side vegetable stand, I made a difference and perhaps changed the course of their day, it certainly changed mine.

Before I left, I invited them to church, who knows, they just might want to hear some more of that good old gospel singing and they can sure hear it where I go, and of course, we'll put the WORD in there too!

Praying with you in mind,

Evangelist: Frank Mc Gee ~