sam the prayin' appliance repair man

Our upright freezer started acting up the other day. It's only a couple years old so we called the dealer. They sent Sam out to fix it for us. Sam's a guy a know from church. He volunteers as a small group leader for Studio 56.

We chatted while he worked on the freezer. He started telling me how when he makes repair calls in people's homes, he looks for opportunities to engage in spiritual conversations with his customers. He told me that if he finds out that they attend church somewhere, he celebrates that by encouraging them. If he finds that they don't have a home church, know what he does? Of course you do. He invites them to come check out NewPointe.

I love it. Here's a guy in and out of homes all day long and he's investing and inviting at each one.

But here's the real reason I wanted to blog about him: Sam told me that inside of his work truck, he keeps a list of all the 56er kids that are in small groups at NewPointe. Guess what he does with that list. He looks at it all day long while he's in his truck...and he prays for each kid by name. He tells me that he prefers praying for those kids over just listening to his truck's radio all day long. How awesome is that?

God bless Sam. I know God honors that kind of effort. What if we all took prayer as seriously as Sam does? What if we all made a conscious effort to pray for people, by name, on a regular basis? Think it would make a difference? I KNOW it would.

So take a lesson from Sam. We all can find/make time to pray like he does. We all can turn off the radio or the iPod or the TV or the X-box long enough to pray for someone.

You go Sam! You inspire me!