How we met .......

Marcia said:

On Sunday 2nd May, I attended an altar workers training workshop in preparation for the Joyce Myer’s conference that coming weekend. During the training we were asked to pair up with someone we did not know, and share how you became a Christian. I was not moved or inspired by the person sharing and thought if I didn’t have passion or joy about my life as a Christian what chance would there be of someone being moved and inspiring to the point of wanting to know more, this bothered me.

I was so perplex on Monday 3rd May, that my original plan to go the gym at 8am and do some light exercise, wash hair and have a relaxing sauna was now on hold. I was telling God, “I didn’t want to witness anymore and was not going to go looking for anyone to witness to” in fact Lord you bring people to me and then I will witness to them”. Still perplexed about the fear of having no passion when sharing with others, I got to the gym at 9:55 there was a spinning class about to begin. I am normally very friendly and the first to initiate conversation however, on entry I gave no one eye contact, because I didn’t want to talk to anyone that day, I need to think. However, a gentleman (who I later knew as Hugh Levine) was already mounted on his bike said hello and just to be polite I returned the compliment.

At the end of the class, I went into the gym and Hugh was smiling and very friendly. I made a hint about my age by making a statement of when you get to your 40’s it’s harder to loss weight and I had about a stone to get rid off.....and I then threw in that I had 2 grown up daughters, thinking this would get rid of him as it had always worked in the past.

Anyway on leaving the gym, Hugh ask me whether I would meet him for a coffee later and I said yes without thinking but I had no intentions of having a coffee with a totally “over friendly” man on this morning. So I washed my hair had a sauna and after an hour or more my conscience started playing up, “You said yes”. Your word, so I quickly got dressed, with my hair looking wild I rushed out into the lounge area and there he was waiting for me... Oh my God….beam me up Scotty.

He got me a drink and went on to say that it was an awful day because it was raining, and my reaction was every day above ground is a good day and he looked at me and smiled and said you seem to be a very interesting person...

After a very deep and long conversation I went into Ministering mode and felt Hugh had a need that only God could fix. He also shared that he was an Orthodox Jew and he was faithful in attending Yom Kippur each year for forgiveness of sin. Really…so I shared with him Jesus and told him that he was the lamb that died for all mankind, so we can live a righteous life on a daily basis and when we make a mistake we can repent there and then which Hugh replied “interesting”.

I decided to pray for him so I asked him to hold my hands; we kept our eyes open so that anyone passing by would just think we were having an intimate conversation.

After praying I gave him my number (so he could get spiritual help…honest) and he has not stopped calling me to this day.