RELAX❗️I'm not about to tell you one of my silly jokes.
I was just remembering that when I was growing up we used to have a LOT more people come knocking on our doors.
We had men selling everything from vacuum cleaners to encyclopedias to hair brushes to children's portraits (they had their photo studio in the back of a van parked outside).
The Avon Lady would come and give tips and sample to any ladies in the home.
I remember we often got nicely dressed young men telling us we needed to hear the "saving gospel". Then told us in order to be "saved" (whatever that was) you had to read the book of MORMON and join THEIR Church exclusively.
When I was very little I saw this picture hanging on a relatives wall and wished that the nice man would come to knock on my door, but He never did. Year after year I waited but He never came.
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But He snuck in another way. Through the TV Show "100 Huntley Street", which started in Canada in 1978. The first time I watched it and the host, David Mainse, told me about Jesus and told me I needed to "make Jesus the Lord of my life", I went for it.
And went from "Darkness to Light and from Death to Life".
Eight years later I met Rev. Mainse at the 100 Huntley Street "Pavilion of Promise" at Expo 86 in Vancover, BC. He would stand outside in the summer heat for hours shaking hands with every person who came out of the Pavilion.
When it was my turn I initially Chickened Out from saying anything because I was so shy and he is a HUGE man, but he bent down and looked me right in the eye and thanked me for coming. I found my tongue and courage and said the exact thing back to him.
"No, no, Reverend Mainse. Thank YOU for coming."
He looked at me puzzled. I continued.
"I became a Christian because you came into my home to tell me about Jesus 8 years ago when I watched 100 Huntley Street when I was only 11 years old. In fact my whole family got Saved that way."
And I pointed to my older brother standing behind me and introduced him too."
Well, didn't Reverend Mainse make a ripe old fuss about us (although I'm sure MANY people were telling him the same thing).
He actually called his Daughter and Son in Law, Bruce and Elaine Stacey, who were standing nearby, over to meet us.
I actually got to tell them that Jesus had so changed my life I had just graduated from attending Vancouver Christian Secondary School for 5 years.
When I was in bed that summer night in 1986 mulling over my day with Jesus, which is something I have done for the past 48 years, I was thinking back on all the dark years of violence and turmoil when I would just stare out the window longing for someone, ANYONE, to rescue me.
But NOBODY ever came to my door in all those long, desperate, scary years of waiting to tell me about Jesus or invite me to Church.
I guess all you Christians were too busy...
Or just didn't care.
The Truth with Love Always Laura-Lee
100 Huntley Street (Still Introducing people to Jesus
