Prayer, Coffee and Cops

Since our planning days in October, our team has decided to come together and pray every morning for our community and other needs. Instead of meeting at the office, we decided to go to different cafes in our area, so that we can meet more people in the community. On Wednesday we walked into a cafe where four police officers were enjoying a coffee before the start of their shift. We sat down next to them and ordered our coffees, but they didn't seem like they wanted to be bothered so we didn't talk to them.
Something you probably don't know about traffic cops in Bosnia is that they can pull you over for any or no reason. Their reasoning behind this is that they want to randomly check people's papers as there is no indication on the license plates that the registration is up-to-date. The lesson that we had learned soon after buying a car here in Bosnia, is that to avoid getting 'randomly checked' you shouldn't drive in the far right lane as that's where the traffic police stand to flag you down. Well I was coming home from an errand that I had to run in town, and I wasn't paying attention and was driving in the right lane. Sure enough, there was a police officer on the side of the road and he flagged me down. He asked for my license and registration, and then starred at me for a second. "Hey" he said, "we had coffee together this morning". I smiled, with some relief, and replied, "oh yeah, I remember". We went on to have a nice conversation and I found out that he has two children, 10 and 14. I told him that I'm planning on starting English classes for school aged children and he gave me his name and phone number, so that I could call him when the classes start up.
We're just excited that God is helping us meet people in the cafes even when we're not bold enough to initiate conversations.