Here are a couple of experiences I had while on the ministry.
One day we were working one of those inter city streets in Britain that contain enormous Victorian houses long since unaffordable and to big for people to live in nowadays, which are divided up into as many flats as the landlord can imagine possible.
Usually you find the outcasts of humanity lurking their. Which always made them more exciting to do than suburban boring normality.
I rang the bell on one of these houses and offered the mags to a young man in his twenties. Now this is a while ago so I can’t remember exact details.
Anyway he tells me he is having trouble with voices .Voices in his head , which he believes to be demons , that are telling him what to do. Now as a well educated witness ( basically I didn’t know what to say) I decline to discuss the issue there and arrange to call back in a few days with a brochure dealing with the issue.
I don’t really give the call another thought as it is not uncommon to meet people like that in this area.
A few days latter I get a call from an Elder. He wants to know whether I’ve had any strange calls on the ministry lately. I cant think of any. He persists and says he’s sure it someone I called on as the brother working with me has told him about this call.
Why the concern from the elder?
Because just a few minutes earlier a film crew from the local news station has turned up on his door step , with film cameras running ,asking why we are trying to expel demons from mentally ill people. The film they got was on the local news that night.
Apparently this man got it into his head that we were coming back to expel demons from him. The house was actually a home for the mentally ill and usually a carer should have answered the door.
He told his carer that me and my partner were coming back to rid him of demons, she phoned the news company , which then looked in the phone book for the address of the witnesses, and got this elders address and subsequently turned up on his door.
Because of all this we get banded by the Charity “Mind” from calling on any of its houses in my town.
Good thing I didn’t do my return visits very often.
Well one time I did do a return visit and started a bible study with a man in his sixties in the same street as the last incident.
The study is going ok, but he starts telling over the weeks of me strange things.
Apparently some time ago (In the 60’s or 70’s) he started seeing images of a little boy.
He told me that this boy sometimes walks down the street with him and talks to him.
Ok this is mad I think , this guy has a spanner or two loose.
For years he has seen this boy but doesn’t know why. Now this “boy” has told him his name.
But it gets madder, he shows me an old newspaper cutting a few years ago. The newspaper cutting is about a boy who disappeared many years ago ,at around the same time as this man started seeing his vision , the article gives his name which is the same as the boy in his visions but not a picture .
The man decides to get in contact with the family of the missing boy.
When he gets in contact he describes the “boy“ he sees in his visions to them, and they say it matches their son.
The family believe him and also believe he is in contact with their dead son, and he meets with them regularly to talk about their son.
He points out that this boy is now sitting on the chair opposite me.
I leave , quickly.
Do you remember any strange experiences?