The following story comes from Rick Glass who is leading the First Impressions ministry at Grace Church, the Grace Brethren Church in Lititz, PA (Scott Distler, pastor):
This past weekend there was some spiritual meeting and moving going on…not in the service or the pastor’s office for counseling…it was happening in the parking lot!
Saturday evening, soon before service began, one of our parking attendants was ministering in the parking lot, not just directing traffic, but ministering to a hurting lady.
An emotionally distraught woman approached him and asked to see a pastor. He knew we were “half staffed” because of Saturday and both Pastor Scott and Pastor Tim were soon to be a part of the service so he asked if he could help her. She began to share how her husband had recently left her and she needed help. He offered to pray with here right there and encouraged her to attend service and then next week to contact one of our pastors.
Now, we don’t know the whole story, where she was or is spiritually, or the extent of her needs, but she was a crying, hurting woman who was met and moved by the ministries of Grace Church and the servant’s heart of one of our parking lot attendants.