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
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