I was walking from the Retreat Place (where I live) to Tabor yesterday late afternoon when I walk past a older gentleman. He looks me so straight in the eye that I greet him with my very limited Amharic. Then we walk past eachother. When I'm about three meters away from him he turns around and shouts (in Amharic): "Do you speak Amharic?" I answer him: "Tenesh, Tenesh (very Little)" and keep walking. When we're about 5 meters from eachother he yells Again: "What is your name?". I answer him and expect this to be his last comment since I can hardly hear him by now. But, when we're about 7 meters from eachother (I'm at the top of the hill and he is at the bottom) he yells Again: "Are you a Christian? Do you know Jesus Christ?" I yelled: "Yes" back and kept walking. But afterward it's made me think. I liked how low key his question was. If I was going to someone that I'd have to know them really well and be in a very safe enviroment, but he just yelled. I really like how it was so important to him, that he just had to ask me. However, I do wonder what his response would've been if I yelled no instead of yes. Would he have had any opppertunity to share about Jesus with me, or would he just have said: "okay, that's fine."
All in all I think this man has made me look at my own timidness when it comes to sharing the good news with new eyes, but it has also made me see the complexity of talking about God and faith. Like so much else in the world, it isn't black or white.
This Picture has nothing to do with the above mentioned, but shows a Little bit of what we do when we get bored at creative Club!
