A few reasons come to mind. Most of the time, people are jerks to them. People usually don’t look them in the eye, ask them their name, and engage most when something is wrong. Since evangelism is probably going to go best if you are kind, a waitress or waiter presents amazing opportunities for you to practice kindness.

And you can’t deny that they also present a captive audience as well. 

On this night, we just began to ask her about her life. If you want people to care about the story of God, set an example and begin to show that their story is important too. Evangelism isn’t just talking, it’s listening. We asked her where she was from, what she was doing in Paris, and if she liked crepés. 

It was anything crazy, it was just a choice to engage. We invited her into our life and asked her about hers. Over the course of the night, she learned about who we were and what we were doing in France. We laughed as we tried to get her to come and sit with us and eat. Obviously, your server doesn’t usually sit with the people in the restaurant, but what might be more unusual for them is to actually be invited.

We stayed long enough to actually be there when it closed. Want to know something cool? She sat down and ate a crepé with us…and we prayed over her…and took this cool picture.

As we sat there that night I remember that the restaurant was playing American music, I usually can hear music I recognize from anywhere. In the same moment that I felt the Holy Spirit pushing us to encourage this girl and pray for her, I heard the song “You Say” by Lauren Daigle come through the speakers.

Great moment.