First Arrest

Hi Again!

As we started out we figured we would go to a certain area and street preach and if possible J would try to get meetings in churches.  He wanted to share about the need for christians to be witnessing wherever they were.  Passing out tracts, talking to people and of course street preaching.  He was also able to teach on the cults.  He is a former Mormon and spent years studying the cults after he became a christian.  (I will have him share his testimony some time.)

So, we left Malta, NY and started south.  The Lord continued to bless by opening doors to meetings and we stopped and street preached on corners as we made our journey.  A pastor in PA who preached on the streets regularly had a court case going on and had need for J to fill his pulpit for a period of time.  He asked if we would stay in the prophet's chamber and if J would take over services for a month or so.  While there we continued preaching on the street corners.  The day we were scheduled to leave they were going to the "Gay" Pride Parade in Harrisburg PA.  We decided to join them on our way out.  It was a great preach.

We had just decided we needed to head out, when the unexpected happened.  My husband was arrested as he crossed the street.  They cuffed him and placed him in their paddy wagon.  I approached another officer and asked why he was arrested.  I was told he had entered a buffer zone between the park where the "PRIDE" festival was and the preachers.  I asked if he had warned my husband first.  He said he did not know, but they had been warning preachers all day.  Now my husband had been wearing a bright, fluorescent, orange vest with a verse on it, all day.  He had our two sons trailing him as well as some of the girls.  It could not be that hard to remember him.  He was taken downtown to the police station.  They had him there for approx. 30-45 minutes and released him pending the court case.

The court date arrived and we proceeded back to PA.  We were told that we had the most pro-sodomite judge around.  Anyway, they called my husband up and questioned him first.  He stated that he had never been told there was a buffer zone to avoid.  The judge proceeded to ask the arresting officer where the buffer zone (15 ft.) came from.  She replied her superior officer had told her that.  So, he was called to the stand and when asked the same question, he stated that the Park Manager had told them to set up a 15 ft. Buffer Zone to keep the preachers away from the park.  So, technically there was no law or ordinance found to back up what they were enforcing.  The judge threw his hands in the air and said, "Then why was this man arrested?"  Needless to say, they were 3 other preachers arrested that day for varying reasons.  They found another one not guilty and the last two guilty.  I guess that was supposed to make everyone happy, two for the preachers and two for the sodomites.

Being the wife of a street preacher is NEVER boring!