Things that are crazy.

There are a lot of things that are just plain crazy.  Things that you can't explain but it all intersects to make something happen that you never expected to work.  This Sunday one of those things happened.

When we first started working in the streets we ran into a guy named Gregorio.  He was a violent, angry, bitter person.  He had spent time in prison and had even stole some money from Mark at one time.  It was one of those situations where whenever we saw him he was causing problems or was completely in the middle of something not good.

Over the past 2 years we noticed a few little changes, nothing too major just little things that made us notice that something was happening.  He wasn't as bragging about his past as I remembered him once being, he was sleeping the the shelter and not causing problems there, he seemed less angry.  I have to admit though, I didn't know if he was just putting on somekind of show or if something was really happening in him.

Last Sunday I saw Mark talking to someone in church off to the side and I was surprised when I saw that it was Gregorio!  Shocked!  What was he doing there?  I also looked over the congregation and realized that our friend Jose Eduardo was there with all the students from Teen Challenge in Guatemala City!  They only come to our church maybe twice a year.  This was unusual. 

When I talked with Mark about what was going on, he said that Gregorio was telling him he was sick of his life and wanted a radical change.  It was a crazy God thing that Jose Eduardo was there that same morning!  After church we introduced them and Jose Eduardo asked Gregorio how he was doing and Gregorio said, "Bad."  Jose asked him why and he said that it was time for  a change.  Jose looked at him and said, "If you're really ready for a change why don't you come with us right now to Teen Challenge?"  Gregorio mentioned that he felt bad because he needed to pay back the money he had stolen from Mark first.  Mark told him to forget about it for now, we can deal with that later. 

End of story?  Gregorio went to Teen Challenge that day with Jose!!!  Crazy.