That’s right, I’m talking about drunk men coming into our church meetings. It happened last week that during our music time, a man came in and took a scrap of paper up front to the man who was leading the meeting, saying that it was an “announcement”. When his announcement wasn’t read (in fact it there was nothing written on it) he decided to make the announcement himself. I didn’t quite understand what he said, but I wondered how the church would respond to this interruption. A few months ago during a church meeting, someone had made a comment about the drunk people outside the building where we meet—we prayed for them from time to time, but had anyone ever spoken to them or invited them to come in? Later, someone had told me that many of the people outside had in fact been invited but none had come. So here was such a man, in front of our church… what would the people do? First, as the announcement grew longer and showed no signs of slowing down, one young man went up front and put his arm around the man, and in an agreeable way tried to usher him out of the center of attention. That being unsuccessful, an older lady in the middle row said, “here’s a seat, come sit by me”. Everyone else agreed, yes, come sit down, join us. So he did. And so did his friend, another man who unfortunately was also drunk and had been watching from the doorway. Someone handed them a songbook and we continued on with our service. They made a few contributions after that, including an interesting prayer during our prayer time, and then lost interest and decided to go somewhere else. When the first man returned this week, drunk again, the church people didn’t miss a beat in greeting him, welcoming him back and showing him a seat where he could join us for the few minutes that we kept his attention. Alcoholism is a big problem in this country, mostly among men. Please pray for these men, that God would break through their bonds and shine His light into their lives. Perhaps He would grant them some memory that people from our church were kind to them and did not push them aside, and show them that He does not want to push them aside either.