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>
Malia it sounds absolutely amazing. i'm continueing to pray for y'all and know God will be working. I hope to maybe be in your position next year. keep trusting God.
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