On my last post, I could have written much more, but decided to save some stuff for now since it was so long already. After we got back from Texas, I had two days to prepare for my first big outreach. Luckily, I had most of it in order before I left, but it really was a full week! I had passed out flyers to the Morrisville Band at the previous week's practice, and invited them to a pizza party at the youth center. The plan was to get them to come out and have fun, learn about Student Venture, and hear the Gospel. The event went great! We had about 1/3 of the band come out, we played a game called "Electricity" and they all played some of the youth center games like guitar hero, pool, and carpet ball. Then, I shared about what Student Venture is and does, a student named Caleb shared his testimony, and Collin from the Texas trip shared the Gospel with the students. They both did awesome! During the Gospel presentation, the students were very interested! They had tons of questions and were no doubt taking some of it in. Afterward, one of the girls said she tried and tried to do good so that she could go to heaven, but she always messed up! Brad, who is our director, explained to her that is why Jesus came, because we couldn't do it on our own. It was awesome, she accepted Christ! At the end of the night we gave them all a little survey to ask what they thought about the event and if they had made a decision. We had several who marked that they made decisions, but I will be checking back in with them soon to talk to them more about it. Overall it went great! A couple of days later, I heard from a mom that had heard from some moms who had kids at the event, and she said the kids really had a great time. I'm hoping to start up a bible study with some of these students, so please be praying for me as I seek to help these students grow, and as I interact with them at band practices!
Collin sharing the Gospel
Hanging out with carpet ball in the background
Pizza!
Guitar Hero!
Lastly, Brad (the SV Philly Director) and I have been meeting once a week with the football team for team chapel. Each week we try to have a guest speaker, some food, and a short spiritual / team building talk. We have been building relationships with the guys, a lot of them come from broken families with very few good male role models in their lives. A couple of days ago we just grabbed a few of them after practice and took them to Burger King for fries and drinks. We got into a great conversation about the Gospel, and enjoyed the time together. Please be praying for these guys as we work with them, I know many of them come from hard lives, and I pray we can help them to see who Jesus is and why they need Him in their lives, and give them good male guidance in the process. We are taking the whole team chapel out to play Par 3 golf today, so I'm excited to interact with them more. Though I must say working with football players is a new thing to me, please pray that I will be real and sincere with them.
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