After being extremely active in ministry the past two years in Philly, it has been a bit of a shock moving to a new place and starting up from scratch again. Cru High School RDU has plenty of ministry going on in the city, but not so much going on up near the seminary where I am. However, because God has planted three of our staff members at Southeastern and from that three other seminary students have expressed interest in volunteering, we have been working on launching in the Wake Forest area. I feel like we are finally beginning to get some traction as we have had some connections with a couple of local youth pastors and with Fellowship of Christian Athletes in one of the schools. Tomorrow I'm excited that we are looking to finally get on campus for prayer at See You at the Pole. Because of all the waiting, I've found myself getting restless, yet seeing how God has been using it to build my patience as I rely on Him and my team members to get things moving.
Today, I decided to use this wait time in a productive way. One of my roommates and I went out to do evangelism at a local community college and had some really cool conversations with people! We used Soularium which is a spiritual picture questionnaire that I've mentioned before in a previous post here: West Virginia / Virginia Trip. When we arrived we knew absolutely nothing about the campus, so as we explored we
prayed for the school, our time there, and for any
Christians / Christian organizations that might meet there. As we scoped out the campus, we found a high traffic area where students hang out and eat lunch. We then sat down at a table and after showing my roommate how to do it, we initiated with a group of students at the table next to us. Out of the group of 4 or 5 students, one guy came over. After going through the first couple of questions, it was quite apparent he was a believer as one of the things he wanted in his life was to be a missionary! He then shared part of his testimony with us and I asked if they had any Christian clubs there. He then proceeded to tell me that they had just started up Cru and he was in the worship band! He even invited us to the Cru meeting later tonight!
After we finished talking to him, we saw another group of students hanging out, so we initiated with them and three of them wanted to go through the questions. As we talked, I could tell one girl was a believer, the guy didn't seem sure, and the other girl didn't know what to believe. Once we finished the questions in Soularium, I asked if they had a few more minutes for me to share the Connecting with God booklet, which is the Gospel in four points. They agreed, and we dived in! The girl who I think was a believer had to leave about half way through, but asked if she could take the booklet with her (I said yes of course!). That left the guy who didn't seem sure, and the girl who didn't know what to think. Once we made it though the booklet, the guy felt like he had already made that decision and I think he really just needed assurance. When I asked the girl if she wanted to receive Christ, she said she wasn't ready to make that decision yet, but said it had cleared up what she had heard previously about it from family members. After they left, my roommate and I sat there a few minutes and debriefed and talked about our conversations. As we sat there, the girl who wasn't ready to make a decision came back and asked if she could have our contact info in case she had more questions. I said yes of course and told her about the Cru meeting tonight that the first guy had told me about. After that, we left with the reminder that God does the work when we share the message. All we have to do is go, and He is faithful. "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few..." too often we believe the lie that people don't want to hear, but the reality is people do want to hear and will listen if we just take the time to share.
