Post by messengermicah on Apr 2, 2009 19:58:14 GMT -5
Wednesday March 18, 2009-Florida State University-Tallahassee, Florida: Fresh from the beating I received at Panama City Beach from the spring break revelers I decided not to go back again today.
Unfortunately, I forgot to factor in the time difference from the panhandle area and Tallahassee. I was almost two hours from Tallahassee to begin with and lost an hour on the way due to the time change.
Sister Elizabeth and I arrived on campus and I began preaching around 2:00 PM in the “new” free speech area, which is about 30 yards from the old area.
I soon gathered a crowd of about 30-40. I seemed to gain some sympathy/respect from the crowd due to my black eye from the day before at Panama City Beach. As the afternoon grew on the crowd grew to around 120-130 at the largest point.
It was a day of straightforward preaching, questions and answers. The needy homosexual who always shows up to disrupt our meetings who calls himself “Sparkles” but whose real name is Daniel also showed up. He continually tried to disrupt and turn the meeting into a circus but the meeting stayed on a civil, sober level for the most part. The crowd all but ignored Dan (Sparkles) most of the day.
The black bisexual, Akeem who seems to accompany him much of the time also showed up and listened intently most of the day. My first visit this year he gave me a very hard smack on the backside but now always shows up and listens intently. I believe God is dealing with him and please pray for him.
The students who had done some filming of our preaching in the past also showed up to do more filming.
By 5:00 PM I still had a good sized crowd of 40-60 but deliberately stopped the preaching so we could begin to make the nearly two hour journey back to where we were staying for a church service.
From 5:00 PM to 5:30 PM, Sister Elizabeth and I had some very good conversation with several students who claim to be Christians on campus. It seemed they agreed with our message and seemed to have a much better understanding and appreciation for what we were trying to accomplish on campus after our conversation.
We headed back to the vehicle around 5:30 PM.