A MUCH needed update.
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Wow, I sort of forgot to update this thing.
So long story short, about midway through the summer...after a lot of
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Onward Christian Soldiers
Though it is currently 1 am, pretend it is still Thursday ;)
To call the past couple of days "random," would only be an understatement.
Tuesday morning began as usual with our team meeting. My group decided to go to Laguardia Community College and set up a ministry table to hand out free Campus Crusade promotional materials. Our team of five students (the staff didn't join us that day) grabbed two boxes full of books and Bibles, a couple of bags of water bottles and laundry bags, and a folding table. Needless to say, we were loaded down!! Along the way to the college, we experienced reversing subway trains, taxi drivers refusing to pick us up, walking 10 blocks and then crossing a mile long bridge with all of our supplies! None of these things had to be done the first time we went to Laguardia! Looks like Satan didn't want us there that day!
When we finally got there, we set up and people began to flock to our table. We handed out almost everything and Theresa and Joel led a student to Christ, just by God using our table! People were very interested and we got about 50 contacts, including a pastor! Most said they would be willing to help start a ministry on the campus. I also had the experience of possibly leading someone to Christ for the first time! I met a Chinese guy who first said he was a Buddhist and had never heard of the Gospel. I went through the KGP with him and he said he agreed with everything! I asked him if he wanted to pray for Christ to enter his life and he said he would pray it on his own. I so hope he does! I'm trusting that God will let what we talked about make sense and that he would be compelled to pray the prayer. At the very least, I'm so thankful I was able to share the Gospel with him and that he heard it for the first time.
Yesterday was our last day of ministry on campus. We went to St Francis to set up a table. Within an hour, we had handed out all of our supplies and collected close to 40 surveys. God is so good! I'm in such awe of what God has done even for our team!
Once we returned from ministry, the campus track all headed over to a Karaoke place for a couple of hours. It was AMAZING and so much fun. To finish it, we all sang New York, New York in a big circle. That moment was particularly wonderful to experience. We have had such incredible unity and love as a team. I've never seen anything like it before. It is going to be so hard to leave these people.
Following this, we went to go wait in the Wicked lottery for our friend Alex who has tried 1 3 times to win tickets. Unfortunately, none of us won so he couldn't go. About 11 of us went to dinner at Don't Tell Mama and then decided to walk to Magnolia Bakery. On our way, we passed by the Church of Scientology which said it had free informational films every 15 minutes. We were curious as to what it could be about so we stopped in. My jaw dropped during the film when I realized that people actually follow what was talked about in the video. For instance, at the end, after much creepy eye contact, the narrator told us that if we walked out the door without buying the books, it would be like blowing our brains out or jumping off a bridge and that would be stupid. Wait a second....I thought this was supposed to be an encouraging "religion." Anyway, what I really learned is that this was created by a science fiction writer for rich people. No mention of Jesus or God's redeeming grace. Not even a thought on the afterlife, just people wanting you to buy books in order to be "happy."
Today we went through and organized all of the contact information that we had gotten from the beggining. It was a lot of paperwork (which I actually love to do haha). We then had Indian food for our cultural dinner (yum!)
Now I shall sleep in....
Until we meet again my friends <3
To call the past couple of days "random," would only be an understatement.
Tuesday morning began as usual with our team meeting. My group decided to go to Laguardia Community College and set up a ministry table to hand out free Campus Crusade promotional materials. Our team of five students (the staff didn't join us that day) grabbed two boxes full of books and Bibles, a couple of bags of water bottles and laundry bags, and a folding table. Needless to say, we were loaded down!! Along the way to the college, we experienced reversing subway trains, taxi drivers refusing to pick us up, walking 10 blocks and then crossing a mile long bridge with all of our supplies! None of these things had to be done the first time we went to Laguardia! Looks like Satan didn't want us there that day!
When we finally got there, we set up and people began to flock to our table. We handed out almost everything and Theresa and Joel led a student to Christ, just by God using our table! People were very interested and we got about 50 contacts, including a pastor! Most said they would be willing to help start a ministry on the campus. I also had the experience of possibly leading someone to Christ for the first time! I met a Chinese guy who first said he was a Buddhist and had never heard of the Gospel. I went through the KGP with him and he said he agreed with everything! I asked him if he wanted to pray for Christ to enter his life and he said he would pray it on his own. I so hope he does! I'm trusting that God will let what we talked about make sense and that he would be compelled to pray the prayer. At the very least, I'm so thankful I was able to share the Gospel with him and that he heard it for the first time.
Yesterday was our last day of ministry on campus. We went to St Francis to set up a table. Within an hour, we had handed out all of our supplies and collected close to 40 surveys. God is so good! I'm in such awe of what God has done even for our team!
Once we returned from ministry, the campus track all headed over to a Karaoke place for a couple of hours. It was AMAZING and so much fun. To finish it, we all sang New York, New York in a big circle. That moment was particularly wonderful to experience. We have had such incredible unity and love as a team. I've never seen anything like it before. It is going to be so hard to leave these people.
Following this, we went to go wait in the Wicked lottery for our friend Alex who has tried 1 3 times to win tickets. Unfortunately, none of us won so he couldn't go. About 11 of us went to dinner at Don't Tell Mama and then decided to walk to Magnolia Bakery. On our way, we passed by the Church of Scientology which said it had free informational films every 15 minutes. We were curious as to what it could be about so we stopped in. My jaw dropped during the film when I realized that people actually follow what was talked about in the video. For instance, at the end, after much creepy eye contact, the narrator told us that if we walked out the door without buying the books, it would be like blowing our brains out or jumping off a bridge and that would be stupid. Wait a second....I thought this was supposed to be an encouraging "religion." Anyway, what I really learned is that this was created by a science fiction writer for rich people. No mention of Jesus or God's redeeming grace. Not even a thought on the afterlife, just people wanting you to buy books in order to be "happy."
Today we went through and organized all of the contact information that we had gotten from the beggining. It was a lot of paperwork (which I actually love to do haha). We then had Indian food for our cultural dinner (yum!)
Now I shall sleep in....
Until we meet again my friends <3
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Shaking Hands With Albert
Hola mis amigos!
Yesterday, my team split to help the other two campus teams with outreaches that they were having on their campuses. I went with the City College group to Harlem. Their outreach focused on love and relationships and also incorporated surveys to help lead into spiritual conversations. We were going to set up a table on campus to give away free water bottles, Bibles, Christian books, and highlighters with information about the ministry but the school changed its mind about letting us set up the table. Therefore, we moved to the public sidewalk to set up and had a lot of success gathering contacts.
I went with my friend Jordan to do Soularium around campus while some of the others where at the table. He and I first spoke with a Mulsim guy who told us a lot about his religion. I always enjoy meeting people of other faiths who can inform me about what they believe. The cool thing is, like the guy that we met, a lot of people are curious about Christianity and have a lot of questions about it.
The second person I talked to was dressed in all white, traditional African attire and told us she was an African priestess. She was really excited to talk because she said she was an extremely spiritual person. She grew up in a Christian home with pastors as parents but decided Christianity was not for her. She told us that she practiced a West African religion that was a mixture of various religions. We talked for over an hour and it was really neat to learn her perspective. At the same time, it was sad because we could see that she was missing the most important piece of the puzzle (Jesus).
Last night for our Monday night meeting, the entire project went out on the streets to hand out food to homeless people. Once we got to our designated locations, we were further split into pairs and were given lunch bags to hand out. My partner and I prayer walked for a long time searching for homelss people to give to, but we were not able to find any. This was strange because on a normal day, we see many homeless people. We finally found a man after about 45 minutes of walking who was searching through a trashcan. My partner asked him if he was hungry and we gave him a bag. Almost immediately, he started eating and smiled at us, almost crying. We shook hands with him and he told us his name was Albert. He was very grateful for the food. We asked if he wanted any help finding anywhere for shelter but he said no. On our way back to the meeting place, we ran into two more people who gladly accepted food but didn't want any more help.
It is cool to think about the fact that about 100 people went out with at least one bag per person. If all were handed away, that is 100 homeless people who received dinner in NYC that night.
Quite an exhausting day! But full of God! And the day was completed with some Yogurtland of course ;)
Yesterday, my team split to help the other two campus teams with outreaches that they were having on their campuses. I went with the City College group to Harlem. Their outreach focused on love and relationships and also incorporated surveys to help lead into spiritual conversations. We were going to set up a table on campus to give away free water bottles, Bibles, Christian books, and highlighters with information about the ministry but the school changed its mind about letting us set up the table. Therefore, we moved to the public sidewalk to set up and had a lot of success gathering contacts.
I went with my friend Jordan to do Soularium around campus while some of the others where at the table. He and I first spoke with a Mulsim guy who told us a lot about his religion. I always enjoy meeting people of other faiths who can inform me about what they believe. The cool thing is, like the guy that we met, a lot of people are curious about Christianity and have a lot of questions about it.
The second person I talked to was dressed in all white, traditional African attire and told us she was an African priestess. She was really excited to talk because she said she was an extremely spiritual person. She grew up in a Christian home with pastors as parents but decided Christianity was not for her. She told us that she practiced a West African religion that was a mixture of various religions. We talked for over an hour and it was really neat to learn her perspective. At the same time, it was sad because we could see that she was missing the most important piece of the puzzle (Jesus).
Last night for our Monday night meeting, the entire project went out on the streets to hand out food to homeless people. Once we got to our designated locations, we were further split into pairs and were given lunch bags to hand out. My partner and I prayer walked for a long time searching for homelss people to give to, but we were not able to find any. This was strange because on a normal day, we see many homeless people. We finally found a man after about 45 minutes of walking who was searching through a trashcan. My partner asked him if he was hungry and we gave him a bag. Almost immediately, he started eating and smiled at us, almost crying. We shook hands with him and he told us his name was Albert. He was very grateful for the food. We asked if he wanted any help finding anywhere for shelter but he said no. On our way back to the meeting place, we ran into two more people who gladly accepted food but didn't want any more help.
It is cool to think about the fact that about 100 people went out with at least one bag per person. If all were handed away, that is 100 homeless people who received dinner in NYC that night.
Quite an exhausting day! But full of God! And the day was completed with some Yogurtland of course ;)
Monday, July 6, 2009
West Side Story
My friends! It has been so long!
Life got fast and crazy as it seems to do up here in the NYC! For the upcoming week, I will try to be better about updating!
This past week my team spent Monday through Thursday at Brooklyn College. Thursday was our last day ever there! We had a rocky start to the week with some mentally and emotionally challenging conversations. Tuesday was especially difficult for my partner and me as we spoke with a Muslim who was completely satisfied with her faith and a girl who was convinced that she was never going to be able to have faith. She said she was an Atheist who was waiting for someone to convince her otherwise. Unfortunately, she had to run to class before we could finish our conversation with her.
Later that afternoon, I was really tired and had some free time to have a quiet time. I ran by this bakery called Crumbs (best..place..ever) and sat in Bryant Park. This place is wonderful because it is one of the few places to see grass and trees. I thought I was going to get some great time with the LORD in. Then all of sudden, two guys come up and asked me, “what if we told you that God was a woman?” From there, we had about an hour long conversation in which we argued about Jesus and the Bible. It was really sad to me about how they twisted the Word. They took a lot of things out of context and were really surprised that I knew as much as I did about Jesus and the Bible (let me tell you, it was all the Holy Spirit talking to them). They asked me to come to one of their Bible studies and I’m thinking about doing it with a couple of my friends. So much for a quiet time! But it was so invigorating to be able to adamantly share my faith.
It was also fun (but not as much as it could be) running back from the park in a thunderstorm without an umbrella.
Some fun things this past week included the best baseball game ever at Coney Island on Friday evening, 4th of July fireworks on the Hudson, and West Side Story on Broadway. At the fireworks, we had to wait for four hours with the most people I've ever seen! If we left, we were not allowed to get back in haha But it was sooo worth it!
This week has been an intense week of learning in both my personal relationships and my relationship with God. I’m learning a lot about forgiveness, patience, and love on both His part and mine. Please continue to pray that I will remain in the Word and put into practice what I’ve learned.
We only have three more days left on campus! Some specific things you can pray for:
- That the team would finish strong (with energy and enthusiasm)
- That God would move on each campus we visit
- That God would continue to work on Brooklyn College in our absence
- Our health-- I'm currently sick and I know a few others are as well- pray that it won't get in the way
Also, tons of new pictures on facebook! Check them out if you get the chance!
<3>
Friday, June 26, 2009
"I'm the New Mr Rogers, Welcome to My Neighborhood"
http://www.syrogers.com/ This man changed my life---more later....
Part of the campus track! This is in the subway before we had sould food in Harlem.
My friends Joel and Kevin demonstrate putting syrup on chicken and waffles.
Satan knows we are here. The good thing is that God does too and He wins out.
Example:
We were heading back to Brooklyn College on Thursday morning to do our daily ministry. This time, we joined with the arts track so we had some more people in our group. We all stepped on the subway and a few seconds after the door closed, a man started yelling at our group. We had not said anything before he set off. It was very strange because he had not been yelling at the other people in the subway car. He only looked at us when he spoke and yelled about how we Christians were all liars and that he knew Jesus Christ. This went on for about 15 minutes before we decided to switch cars. As soon as we stepped off the train, he stopped yelling. If that was not a demon, I don't know what was. We tried not to be phased by it so that we could continue to do work.
On a lighter note, someone prayed to receive Christ yesterday at Brooklyn College! It is really amazing because this campus has apparently been met with intense spiritual warfare in the past (I can't rememer if I told you that already). It is only through prayer and the Holy Spirit that we have seen as much growth as we have. Keep the prayers up!
Ok, now...to Sy Rogers. WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW. On Wednesday, we had a six hour talk by a pastor named Sy Rogers. This man has an amazing testimony. If I tried to type out all that I learned, it would take me three days. This man just gets it. The main overview of his talk was about nine biological, psychological, and spiritual reasons why we sin and then nine redemptive qualities. He encompassed so much! Even though the theme of the talk was on sexual sin, it covered pretty much any sin that you could think of. I felt like this talk was so vital for my friends, collegues, and myself at this point in our lives. At some point, I will type up some more that I learned. Check him out at www.syrogers.com or on youtube. God definitely blessed us with this man.
Tonight we are getting some free frozen yogurt and going to a baseball game. Fun Fun!
Talk to you soon!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Revelation
Hello all!!!
We have now been here a full two weeks! I love it here so much!!!
Exciting news as well: In just my team alone, three people have been lead to Christ in the past week! I'm not sure how many overall, but it is an immense blessing to have even one person.
Sunday evening, we went back to Redeemer Presbyterian church for the evening service. It was fantastic! We learned about David and how God chose him by looking at his heart and not his appearance. This fact is something I have known intellectually but never really committed it to heart so it was good to be reminded of it. I know appearance is so especially evaluated these days and I have definitely felt pressure to look a certain way. At the same time, it is so freeing to realize that God will use me no matter what I look like. Remind me later to tell you what God did when I thought I looked my worst :)
After that, I was able to have an extended time by myself with God in our apartment and really just talk things out with Him, asking Him questions and asking for enlightenment. I have mentioned all along to you about various things I have been struggling with. One in particular has been my identity. For some reason, when I came here, I realized how much I didn't know about myself (likes, dislikes, even if I was existing). The only thing I was sure about was Jesus. There are worse things I think! haha But anyway, I asked God to reveal to me why I was here and if I could just know Him and know His presence and His grace.
The next day, I woke up with a peace that I haven't really felt before and since then have been super passionate for God. I was really excited to get to Brooklyn College and talk to people. I first spoke with this guy who was super intellectual and believed in unbelief. Those kind of people are my favorite people to talk to because I like to challenge what they think they know. He wasn't close to accepting the Gospel but I think got closer than he was. Following this, I spoke for a long long time with a girl who was an Orthodox Jew. It was fascinating finding out about all of her customs and things that she has been taught to believe. Hopefully we will get to hang out later.
We had a Monday Night Meeting with worship and a lesson about dying to self. It was fantastic! Following this, we went to our favorite place in the city: YOGURTLAND!!!!!!! Think about 16 flavors of frozen yogurt with any topping you can dream of. yeah...it's that good.
Today was a mentally challenging day. I have a fantastic girl discipling me who is challenging me to extreme degrees. It is exactly what I needed. My team went to Laguardia Community College for the first time and at first had a little trouble getting in. Once there, a girl and I spoke to a Chinese girl for almost two hours! We shared the Gospel with her and several times she expressed that she wanted to accept it but she still had reservations. It was so hard because we wanted it for her so badly and she was soooooooooooooo close but had to leave for a test. Please continue to pray for her if you would.
Well, tis time to sleep! I do appreciate your reading! Thank you very much for it!
Until we meet again!
<3
We have now been here a full two weeks! I love it here so much!!!
Exciting news as well: In just my team alone, three people have been lead to Christ in the past week! I'm not sure how many overall, but it is an immense blessing to have even one person.
Sunday evening, we went back to Redeemer Presbyterian church for the evening service. It was fantastic! We learned about David and how God chose him by looking at his heart and not his appearance. This fact is something I have known intellectually but never really committed it to heart so it was good to be reminded of it. I know appearance is so especially evaluated these days and I have definitely felt pressure to look a certain way. At the same time, it is so freeing to realize that God will use me no matter what I look like. Remind me later to tell you what God did when I thought I looked my worst :)
After that, I was able to have an extended time by myself with God in our apartment and really just talk things out with Him, asking Him questions and asking for enlightenment. I have mentioned all along to you about various things I have been struggling with. One in particular has been my identity. For some reason, when I came here, I realized how much I didn't know about myself (likes, dislikes, even if I was existing). The only thing I was sure about was Jesus. There are worse things I think! haha But anyway, I asked God to reveal to me why I was here and if I could just know Him and know His presence and His grace.
The next day, I woke up with a peace that I haven't really felt before and since then have been super passionate for God. I was really excited to get to Brooklyn College and talk to people. I first spoke with this guy who was super intellectual and believed in unbelief. Those kind of people are my favorite people to talk to because I like to challenge what they think they know. He wasn't close to accepting the Gospel but I think got closer than he was. Following this, I spoke for a long long time with a girl who was an Orthodox Jew. It was fascinating finding out about all of her customs and things that she has been taught to believe. Hopefully we will get to hang out later.
We had a Monday Night Meeting with worship and a lesson about dying to self. It was fantastic! Following this, we went to our favorite place in the city: YOGURTLAND!!!!!!! Think about 16 flavors of frozen yogurt with any topping you can dream of. yeah...it's that good.
Today was a mentally challenging day. I have a fantastic girl discipling me who is challenging me to extreme degrees. It is exactly what I needed. My team went to Laguardia Community College for the first time and at first had a little trouble getting in. Once there, a girl and I spoke to a Chinese girl for almost two hours! We shared the Gospel with her and several times she expressed that she wanted to accept it but she still had reservations. It was so hard because we wanted it for her so badly and she was soooooooooooooo close but had to leave for a test. Please continue to pray for her if you would.
Well, tis time to sleep! I do appreciate your reading! Thank you very much for it!
Until we meet again!
<3
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Lately...
Greetings! I thought I would include some more pictures for this entry. The good news is that I can finally get to the internet through my computer!
Here is what has been going on the past couple of days:
Here are some of the ladies as we got ready for the New York City Ballet! They performed "A Midsummer Night's Dream." It was so beautiful!
These are my three fabulous roommates and me as we are hanging out on top of an apartment building.
We decided to go to see a comedian at Central Park last night. This was on our way over.
Here I am with my beautiful international friend! I get to spend every Friday with her and get to know her better.
Here she is with her friend that joined us. They knew each other in Beijing!
One of my friends and I hanging out with our new buddy! We went to a park that just opened a week ago in the meatpacking district. The park is all above ground.
We start back with ministry on Monday and I'm getting pumped about it. It was nice to have a couple days off to rest and get back on board.
Talk to you soon!
:)
Here is what has been going on the past couple of days:
Here are some of the ladies as we got ready for the New York City Ballet! They performed "A Midsummer Night's Dream." It was so beautiful!
These are my three fabulous roommates and me as we are hanging out on top of an apartment building.
We decided to go to see a comedian at Central Park last night. This was on our way over.
Here I am with my beautiful international friend! I get to spend every Friday with her and get to know her better.
Here she is with her friend that joined us. They knew each other in Beijing!
One of my friends and I hanging out with our new buddy! We went to a park that just opened a week ago in the meatpacking district. The park is all above ground.We start back with ministry on Monday and I'm getting pumped about it. It was nice to have a couple days off to rest and get back on board.
Talk to you soon!
:)
Thursday, June 18, 2009
YAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!
"In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents." Luke 15:10 God is rejoicing in Heaven today!!!!
One of the members of my team helped lead someone to Christ today!!! He was our first at Brooklyn College and I think second for the overall team!
Everyone, this is super exciting!
Oki doki, so, I will update you on the current happenings. When last we left off, my group was at St Francis (this was on Tuesday). We were not able to get on campus but had some great conversations with students outside of the school just asking them about what the school was like. We then used this ministry tool called "Soularium" which contains a series of postcard sized photographs. We use this to ask people which pictures describe their lives and God. Two adults became very interested and came up within five minutes of each other to participate (we didn't even have to ask!) Though they didn't accept Christ, it still got them thinking. It was really cool because it was the first time I had done this with adults.
Yesterday and today we were back at Brooklyn College. I spoke with two girls yesterday, one who was Chinese and one who was Jewish. My friend and I shared the Gospel with both of them and spent the rest of the time just asking about their background and how it compared with Christianity. It was really cool to see the Chinese girl almost make the decision to follow Christ. She got so close but was not really ready. Please pray that we would continue to be a light to her! Today I faced a little more hardship with the first girl I talked to. She was not interested at all and left during our conversation. It was good though that we were able to talk. I then spoke with a Christian guy who said he may be interested in joining a ministry if we start one on his campus. That was very encouraging!
What I love is that God works in spite of me. I felt like I had hit a roadblock spiritually today and didn't talk to as many people I could have. It was annoying but thankfully temporary. I was, however, able to pray for the rest of my team as they went off talking to people. While I was praying for God to do something BOLD at Brooklyn, my friend came up and told me someone accepted Christ!!!! It made the whole day so much better. God is definitely planning something good for that school.
I have had a blast getting to know the girls on this project. We all get along very very well and I feel like I could definitely form lasting friendships with them. A few of us went to a brilliant restaurant called "Don't Tell Mama" last night and had a great time. We even got free desserts and found out that one of the servers had gone on a summer project a couple years ago.
I highly recommend the book The Prodigal God by Tim Keller. AMAZING. We are reading it for Bible study and it is great. Buy it now :)
God is really working on me with this project. I feel kind of like I have been knocked of my rocker...but this is not a bad thing. It is hard facing how much I need to change but a blessing that it is being exposed to me. I had an intense Bible Study and Discipleship on Tuesday that really made me evaluate everything I think and am. I hardcore cried for the first time in forever hahaha, but it felt soooo good. My discipler is AMAZING and I love her very much. I know I will not come out of this project the same way I went in. Thank goodness for that.
Interesting side note: A girl told me a talked with an almost British accent when I talk normally. I laughed. That is so cool.
Peace out <3>
One of the members of my team helped lead someone to Christ today!!! He was our first at Brooklyn College and I think second for the overall team!
Everyone, this is super exciting!
Oki doki, so, I will update you on the current happenings. When last we left off, my group was at St Francis (this was on Tuesday). We were not able to get on campus but had some great conversations with students outside of the school just asking them about what the school was like. We then used this ministry tool called "Soularium" which contains a series of postcard sized photographs. We use this to ask people which pictures describe their lives and God. Two adults became very interested and came up within five minutes of each other to participate (we didn't even have to ask!) Though they didn't accept Christ, it still got them thinking. It was really cool because it was the first time I had done this with adults.
Yesterday and today we were back at Brooklyn College. I spoke with two girls yesterday, one who was Chinese and one who was Jewish. My friend and I shared the Gospel with both of them and spent the rest of the time just asking about their background and how it compared with Christianity. It was really cool to see the Chinese girl almost make the decision to follow Christ. She got so close but was not really ready. Please pray that we would continue to be a light to her! Today I faced a little more hardship with the first girl I talked to. She was not interested at all and left during our conversation. It was good though that we were able to talk. I then spoke with a Christian guy who said he may be interested in joining a ministry if we start one on his campus. That was very encouraging!
What I love is that God works in spite of me. I felt like I had hit a roadblock spiritually today and didn't talk to as many people I could have. It was annoying but thankfully temporary. I was, however, able to pray for the rest of my team as they went off talking to people. While I was praying for God to do something BOLD at Brooklyn, my friend came up and told me someone accepted Christ!!!! It made the whole day so much better. God is definitely planning something good for that school.
I have had a blast getting to know the girls on this project. We all get along very very well and I feel like I could definitely form lasting friendships with them. A few of us went to a brilliant restaurant called "Don't Tell Mama" last night and had a great time. We even got free desserts and found out that one of the servers had gone on a summer project a couple years ago.
I highly recommend the book The Prodigal God by Tim Keller. AMAZING. We are reading it for Bible study and it is great. Buy it now :)
God is really working on me with this project. I feel kind of like I have been knocked of my rocker...but this is not a bad thing. It is hard facing how much I need to change but a blessing that it is being exposed to me. I had an intense Bible Study and Discipleship on Tuesday that really made me evaluate everything I think and am. I hardcore cried for the first time in forever hahaha, but it felt soooo good. My discipler is AMAZING and I love her very much. I know I will not come out of this project the same way I went in. Thank goodness for that.
Interesting side note: A girl told me a talked with an almost British accent when I talk normally. I laughed. That is so cool.
Peace out <3>
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Hello hello!
So much to tell and so little time!
I'll give you a brief rundown of what all we have been up to since we last talked.
On Saturday, we had the day free! One of my roommates and I decided to sleep in. It was sooo nice to get some sleep! We then met with another girl and toured around the city on our own. We wanted to use that day as a chance to get to know the subway system better and to visit famous sites around the city. We first stopped by the Metropolitan Opera House and Julliard. After walking the wrong direction for a bit, we found Central Park and took a nice (and rainy!) stroll through the park. We ran into some very strange but very interesting performers! We then took the subway up to Cafe Lalo where "You've Got Mail" was filmed and had dinner there. Finally, we went to Washington Square park where I had a great conversation with an artist. He said he was the only Christian painter that he new of in the area. I wanted to support him so I bought a really cool (and more expensive than I would have liked) piece called "The Path to Christ."
Sunday morning we went to Redeemer Church at Hunter College and got to here from Tim Keller. It was amazing! He talked about Hannah and her participation in the salvation of the world by bearing children. It really showed the importance of working for God. Following this, we briefly visited the Puerto Rican Day Parade! It was really exciting! To further participate in international events, we went back to the main office to meet our international buddies! They were mainly from China. We will be hanging out with them on Fridays in order to get to know them and their culture and they will learn the same from us. I had a great time talking to all of the international students and saw how neat it was that the nations are all among us here in New York!
Monday morning began our campus ministry! It was so excited to finally get to the whole reason we are here. My group (about 8 people) has Brooklyn College as our "home" campus. We went around speaking to the students and getting information about the college. We found out a lot and even got contacts for one of the very few Christian ministries on campus. We will go to this campus a couple times a week in order to initiate spiritual conversations with the students and help them the best we can. Please pray for my team on this college as it is possible to experience some strong spiritual warfare. As for now, I feel really good about what God will do on the campus. Once we returned home from the campus, we had a worship service and it was great to praise God for all he has done! I even got to share a testimony of what God has done for myself and my family through you, the supporters!
Today, we had a lot of success at another school, St Francis. I will go into more detail later for I have to leave now! Let me tell you, living with three other girls and one bathroom and one computer has taught me about patience and persistence....
Much love to all and more to come! Check out my pictures on facebook if you get the chance!
<3
So much to tell and so little time!
I'll give you a brief rundown of what all we have been up to since we last talked.
On Saturday, we had the day free! One of my roommates and I decided to sleep in. It was sooo nice to get some sleep! We then met with another girl and toured around the city on our own. We wanted to use that day as a chance to get to know the subway system better and to visit famous sites around the city. We first stopped by the Metropolitan Opera House and Julliard. After walking the wrong direction for a bit, we found Central Park and took a nice (and rainy!) stroll through the park. We ran into some very strange but very interesting performers! We then took the subway up to Cafe Lalo where "You've Got Mail" was filmed and had dinner there. Finally, we went to Washington Square park where I had a great conversation with an artist. He said he was the only Christian painter that he new of in the area. I wanted to support him so I bought a really cool (and more expensive than I would have liked) piece called "The Path to Christ."
Sunday morning we went to Redeemer Church at Hunter College and got to here from Tim Keller. It was amazing! He talked about Hannah and her participation in the salvation of the world by bearing children. It really showed the importance of working for God. Following this, we briefly visited the Puerto Rican Day Parade! It was really exciting! To further participate in international events, we went back to the main office to meet our international buddies! They were mainly from China. We will be hanging out with them on Fridays in order to get to know them and their culture and they will learn the same from us. I had a great time talking to all of the international students and saw how neat it was that the nations are all among us here in New York!
Monday morning began our campus ministry! It was so excited to finally get to the whole reason we are here. My group (about 8 people) has Brooklyn College as our "home" campus. We went around speaking to the students and getting information about the college. We found out a lot and even got contacts for one of the very few Christian ministries on campus. We will go to this campus a couple times a week in order to initiate spiritual conversations with the students and help them the best we can. Please pray for my team on this college as it is possible to experience some strong spiritual warfare. As for now, I feel really good about what God will do on the campus. Once we returned home from the campus, we had a worship service and it was great to praise God for all he has done! I even got to share a testimony of what God has done for myself and my family through you, the supporters!
Today, we had a lot of success at another school, St Francis. I will go into more detail later for I have to leave now! Let me tell you, living with three other girls and one bathroom and one computer has taught me about patience and persistence....
Much love to all and more to come! Check out my pictures on facebook if you get the chance!
<3
Visual Aid!
Hello all!
Things are WONDERFUL here in New York! God is working in big ways and is rocking this city!
I finally borrowed a flash drive so I can put up some pictures. Hopefully tonight I can go into more detail about what all has been going on lately but here is a little taste in picture form!
Here is the room that we meet in when we get together as a team. This was right after our "Monday Night Meeting (MnM).
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