Jeep Duck.

 Who knew that exchanging Jeep ducks in the parking lot of a funeral home would lead to an intimate conversation about Jesus, God The Father & church? 

That is exactly what happened last night at a funeral home as I was leaving. I'm walking across the parking lot towards my Jeep, when I notice another Jeep a few spots away from mine. I'm thinking "wow, that sure is a sharp looking Jeep." As I walk past I notice a woman is sitting inside. I get her attention and mention what a cool looking Jeep she had. She thanked me and I kept on walking. As I got to my Jeep, I heard the Holy Spirit saying to give her a Jeep duck. In case you are wondering, I keep a case of them under the back seat. I open the back door, grab the case to get a duck out. I'm trying to decide on what color to hand her. I chose pink.

As I'm walking back towards her Jeep, she jumps out with a bag of her own. She is reaching inside it when she notices me coming towards her. She was like "you too, huh?" I said "yep, here ya go." She continues to search through her bag saying that she was looking for a cool one to give me. She found one that was a police one. She asks me if I'm a cop? I told her no, I'm a pastor. Okay. She found one that she thought was worthy enough to give me and hands it to me. We both thank each other for the ducks that we exchanged and go our separate ways.

I get in my Jeep and start it up. As I'm buckling up, here comes that lady across the parking lot right towards me. I roll my window down and we start talking. She asks me what church I attend. I tell her and she says that she'll have to come and visit. I told her she is more than welcome, anytime! Then she wanted to know what denomination it was. I told her Assembly of God. It is Pentecostal. She told me that she used to attend a Pentecostal church with her mom, before she passed. Then she goes on to tell me her whole story about her experience with church, Jesus and her mom. She just really needed someone to talk to. I told her that it wasn't a coincidence that we were talking at that exact moment. Our paths crossed for a reason.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 The Message

3 There’s an opportune time to do things, a right time for everything on the earth:

I'm not sure what God had planned with me and the Jeep lady crossing paths, but I'm sure it will be something awesome! His timing is perfect, always! Not sure if she'll come to church or not, time will tell. God knows!

So a couple of Jeep ducks drew two people together for something other than the love of Jeeps. Because of those ducks, I was able to witness and tell her more about my faith. We'll see where it leads.

Colossians 4:5 Living Bible

5 Make the most of your chances to tell others the Good News. Be wise in all your contacts with them

God bless.

Rev. Kev.