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Nursing Home Evangelism: Preaching at the Last ‘Bus Stop to Eternity’

By Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service
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Lay evangelists review their visit to a Washington, D.C.-area nursing home. RNS photo by Adelle M. Banks
Jul 23, 2014
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Rhonda Rowe and her team gathered around a diagram of the nursing home’s floor plan and determined how to split up to avoid praying with anyone twice.

Rowe made her way to a room where a 93-year-old woman lay in her bed while her 87-year-old roommate sat in a wheelchair. Rowe knelt between them and went through her “Nursing Home Gospel Soul-Winning Script.”

“Fill me with your Holy Spirit and fire of God,” the 93-year-old repeated. “I’m on my way to heaven. I have Jesus in my heart.”

Rowe was soon off to the next room, but before she left, acknowledged that she might never see them again on earth. “I’ll see you girls in heaven!” she chirped.

Welcome to the world of nursing home evangelism, where teams of lay evangelists target senior citizens for one last chance in this life for glory in the next.

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Lay evangelists review their visit to a Washington, D.C.-area nursing home. RNS photo by Adelle M. Banks
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