The
Christine Weick Story
She tells why she made the trip from Tennessee to
counter the Muslim prayer service in Washington’s National Cathedral.
By de Andréa
November 22, 2014
November 22, 2014
If you haven’t already
read what led up to this story, then it is imperative that you do so. First one should read a previous article
titled “The
Future of The Church And Schools In America” and
then the previous article and video titled “Christian
Ejected From So-called Interfaith Worship”
Christine Weick had instantly become a
folk hero of sorts for thousands, if not millions, of Christians who read what
happened or watched the video that was posted on the Internet. Watch the video of Christine Weick getting removed from the National Cathedral after standing up and
proclaiming Jesus Christ during Muslim prayer service:
Everyone in America should read this story. This is not my story, this is ‘Christine
Weick’s story’:
Christine
Weick wants everyone to know that she did not get arrested and she is safely
back in her SUV, heading back to Tennessee.
“It
was quite an overwhelming day yesterday,” she said.
And
while she was lauded for her bravery, she confided she was “literally scared to death”
as she waited for the right moment to stand up and proclaim the gospel message. She should be scared, Muslims behead people
for less! Oh yes! And in this country too.
“They
never said a word to me.” She said. “Two guys came up and got me. I remember one
large man in a suit taking me by the arm, very strongly but he did not hurt me.”
“He
just put an arm on me and said, ‘We are walking this way.’ Then comes the
police officer, and I’m thinking, ‘OK I’m done.’ I’m still in the sanctuary at
this point, so I put out my hands for the officer to arrest me, but he just
held my hand and walked me to the back of the church.”
“He
handed me over to a woman officer, who takes me to the front doors of the
church. She hands me to another officer, who takes me to another officer in the
foyer, who takes me out to the road. Not one of them said a word. I was free to
go.”
She
said she told the last officer who led her to the road to have a good day, to
which he gave no response. She returned to her vehicle and soon afterward drove
home…
Except
Christine Weick doesn’t have a home. She said her husband divorced her last
year “over a spiritual conflict,” and her family disowned her because
she took a stand against same-sex marriage and other “Christian moral issues.”
Weick said she learned of the Muslim
prayer service two days before it was scheduled to happen through an article
posted on the Drudge Report. The more she
thought about it, she felt the Lord was telling her to go to Washington and say
something.
“My blood began to boil as I read the comments of how this is to be such a wonderful event and
how religious tolerance can, for the first time, be shown in our nation’s
capital,”
she said.
Still, she had nervous doubts about
making the 400-mile trip from Kingsport, Tennessee.
“That
article got my attention. And then I Googled the Washington National Cathedral,
and I got more information about the service,” she said.
She
found out from the cathedral’s website that because of limited space the event
was for “invited guests only.”
“That’s
when I knew I had to be creative, and so did God,” she said.
She
wasn’t sure what type of creativity would be required or even if she was doing
the right thing as she headed out on the road to D.C. In fact, she almost
turned around.
A
sign of confirmation
“I
was driving there on my way from Tennessee, and I’ve got a lot of doubts in my
mind: Am I going to make a fool of myself? Am I going to be in jail for the
weekend?”
But
as she drove down the highway in the right lane, she passed a woman who did
something strange.
“There’s
this woman stepping out of her vehicle on the side of the road, clapping and
giving me two thumbs up, and I’m like, ‘That was the strangest thing,’” she said. “The first thing that went
through my mind was, ‘That’s my confirmation right there.’ That’s all I needed,
and from that point on I knew this was something I’m going to do; and that was
the catapult that moved me to keep going towards Washington.”
She
said she told only four people where she was going and what she planned to do.
She asked for prayer.
“I
said I need you to pray for me, this is what God has put in my bones to do,” she said. “It didn’t hit me until I got in
the cathedral and saw all the people and the cameras sitting on my right, and
I’m thinking, ‘This is a big deal. I am going to be put in jail!’”
She
credits God for getting her into the massive church, which was guarded like
Fort Knox. Everyone had to go through a checkpoint to make sure they weren’t
armed or posed a threat.
“It
was a God thing how I got past all that security in the beginning. They never
ID’d me, and I had brought my ID with me just in case, and I thought that would
be my downfall, being from Michigan, that they would say, ‘What is she doing
here?” Weick said. “According
to reports, this was a heavy security event. They checked every bag and every
person that walked in there. I bet some security people are in big trouble today.”
As if
right out of “STAR WARS” they said “This is not the droid you are looking
for.”
I
was invisible…
She
said she slipped through unnoticed, first by following a security guard and
then later by engaging in conversation alongside a woman with press
credentials.
“I
just followed those security officers when they were going from place to place.
I just followed them,”
she said. “It was almost like they didn’t see me. Like I was invisible.”
Hiding
in the bathroom
Weick
got through the security line about 10:15 a.m., more than an hour and a half
before the prayer service started. She needed to lie low to avoid detection.
She
noticed a janitor’s closet was left open near the bathroom and briefly thought
about hiding in it. But a fear of being locked in persuaded her against that
option.
She
then slipped into the bathroom instead.
“When I was in the bathroom hiding out,
that’s when it hit me: I think I’m invisible, I really wondered, the way it
happened, just strange, just totally strange; and someday I’m going to ask God
how that all worked out,”
she said.
While
hiding in the bathroom and waiting for the service to start, she rehearsed over
and over what she would say. She prayed constantly, with emphasis on Psalm 27.
A
woman was washing her hands at the sink as Weick left the stall where she was
hiding. The woman had a press tag on her blouse.
“I
asked her if she knew what time the service was to start and she replied, ‘In a
few minutes. Do you know where to go?’ I didn’t.”
“Follow
me and I will take you to the front,” the woman said.
“I
walked with her into the main foyer up to the security line. We walked right
past the guards and into the sanctuary! I was invisible.”
Still,
the butterflies fluttered in her stomach.
As
she took her seat she was shocked at what she saw. About a hundred people were
sitting in chairs around rugs that were placed on the floor. Muslim women,
separated from the men, were seated on the rugs. To her right was the news
media with their cameras and recording equipment. In front of her were the
prayer rugs.
“Then
it hit me… I had such an angst come over me. Seeing these Muslims sitting on
their rugs ready to bow to a god, causing such an abomination in the house of
the Lord,” she
said.
The
imam said the call to prayer would begin momentarily and spoke some words in
Arabic.
Weick
felt her heart thumping in her chest.
“I
prayed… ‘Lord! Tell me when!’ At that moment I saw a figure of Christ on the
cross some distance away. I stood up.”
“I was so nervous; you’ll never know how
scared I was,” she
said. “All I kept thinking was, ‘I can do all things through Christ who
strengthens me; that’s my only strength.’ I could not do it through me. But we
have an amazing God. He shows his strength in my weakness. That’s my motto.”
She
started to speak, firmly and loudly but not out of control. What she said was
not the same as what she had rehearsed in the bathroom stall.
“I
did not plan on those exact words coming out. I was going to say it
differently. I was planning to say, ‘I serve a risen Savior, and Muhammad is
dead.’ But I saw the cross and it just popped out of my mouth. I was not going
to say it that way. I rehearsed it the other way over and over in the bathroom,
because my biggest fear was making a fool of myself; but it didn’t happen that
way.”
Even
if she had failed and made herself a fool, it could not be more painful than
what she has already gone through over the past year, she said.
“I took a very strong stand on something
last year. My husband divorced me over it. It broke my heart. I have a lot of
heartache back home, a lot of hurt,” she said. “And I felt the Lord telling me, ‘You are
going to go from place to place for me.’”
While
she lives out of her car, she doesn’t consider herself homeless.
“Don’t
be sorry for me. I have a very nice SUV. I go out to eat, I have a bank
account,” she told WND. “I am just too Dutch to pay 60 or 70 bucks for a hotel
every night when I can spend my nights in my car. And I travel every night from
place to place, and that is what I was doing when I saw the story in the Drudge
Report.”
Not
a hero
But Weick said she did nothing outside
of what God gave her the strength to do, and she doesn’t see herself as any
hero of the faith. The weakest of Christians could easily do the same thing,
she said.
“That’s
why I posted on Facebook this morning. I was like, ‘Come on Christian soldiers
we need to fight, and we need to fight using the gospel, the Word of God,’” she said. “There are Muslims everywhere,
just walk up to them and say, ‘Jesus Christ is Lord.’ Be brave.”
“I’m
hearing that many Muslims are getting dreams. Maybe all it takes is one to have
a dream after being told Jesus Christ is Lord, I don’t know. That is God’s
deal. Let Him work it out. We just need to be bold in the Lord and we don’t
need to be burning their mosques down, like they burn our churches. We have the
gospel and that is our only weapon we need. Jesus is Lord, and we need to
proclaim it, but how many times do we do it?”
But
before Weick became bold, she was humbled.
“It
was a situation in my life, how God yanked every anchor in my life over the
last five years, just everything that would keep a normal woman, a normal
mother, at home just got yanked out from under me,” she said. “I have a son and
a daughter, and they disowned me. I took a stand against gay marriage and I
lost them. That is my heartache. And it hurts me so much. And I wonder what
they think now when they see me on the news.”
Weick
said she doesn’t know what her next “assignment” will be, but she knows
now she can tackle almost anything.
“I
told the Lord last night, ‘OK, you can take me now,’ but I don’t know,” she said. “I think He may have other plans for me, per Jeremiah
29: 11.”
THE BOTTOM LINE: Well, the bottom line is, that I think
Christine said it all…
Thanks for listening – de Andréa
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for them to hear the truth.
2 comments:
Bravest, Warrior of Jesus I have seen in my time! Inspiring! Thank You Ms. Weick for showing us what boldness looks like!
Christine, I really need to hear from you, my friend. Please get in touch if you see this. Sarah McIntyre, Jacketbacker1@Hotmail. Com. Same old email were corresponded with years ago. Good be with you my friend!
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