It’s time to kick off WeAreSent.com and be a missionary where you live, work, study, and play. Here is the first mission:
As you eat in restaurants, ask the waiter/waitress if there is anything you can pray for him/her about.
This is a great way to get to know the waiter/waitress at a deeper level than as the person who takes your order and brings you your food. It will be especially beneficial if you eat at the restaurant regularly.
You may something like, “It is our custom to pray before we eat. Is there anything we can pray for you about today?”
You may get a weird look. You may get told no. You may have caught the waiter/waitress on a horrible day and he/she really opens up and appreciates the prayer. You just never know. Be sure to be praying before you go to eat that God would send you to just the right person–that he would use you in a waiter/waitress’ life this week.
Remember: You are sent!
This mission worried me a little bit for the simple fact that i dont eat out when i am not in Greenville, so today on my way out of town i went to Sonic to get breakfast. i asked my server if there was anything i could pray for her about. she went with the really wierd look response, but then she said “good health, i guess.” and after she left i prayed for her.
Rhett and I undertook this mission last night at Mutts. After Rhett asked she looked surprised at the question (like: “you just asked if there was anything that you could pray about for me, not ‘Can I get some ketchup, please.’”)After the slight hesitation, she asked if we would pray for her dad, Aubrey, and then she small talked a bit, and then added her brother to the prayer list, who has the same name as her father. It was neat how her demeanor changed after that; she became really personable coming by to make small talk periodically. I look forward to the next time that we go back and ask her about her dad and brother.
– Maybe that’s the secret: ask to pray, pray not just at that moment, but continue to pray for that person and their prayer request(s), and then continue to follow-up periodically, so that they know that we actually care and it’s not just a one-time event, not just something we do to say that we completed mission one and check it off our list. This is life, people need to know that someone cares, even if it is a stranger…