House Visits

This morning at Soweto Vineyard, we did door to door evangelism during the service time. First of all, I think this is a brilliant idea because it gets your congregation out into the community and allows people a chance to get to know the church. I went with a group of five into the first house and other than the question, "Do you speak Souto?", which was followed by the command, "Learn the language!", everything else that was discussed was in Souto. Since I only understand a few words, I didn't really know what was going on, so I spent the twenty or so minutes praying for God to open the hearts of the people we were visiting with. After we left, I found that they had been receptive of the message and at the end, we prayed for them before assuring them that people from the church would come and visit again.
The next house was similar, but everything was in Zulu this time. Different language, but the same result for me - I prayed. The man in this house was open to attending church when his work schedule permitted, so we got his number and will follow up. After his house, the time limit was up and we headed back to the church to compare notes with other groups. The response was overwhelmingly positive and we all left encouraged that God was at work in the surrounding community.