Hello Ministry Family,
I just thought I'd drop a note to tell you about a cool thing God did today and to send along a prayer request. This afternoon, I met up with Katelyn, a fellow Cru staff member, to do some evangelism on campus at UMASS Dartmouth. We met to pray, and we decided that our goal was to have one good conversation that went past the basic survey that we were asking. We thought in order to achieve this we would probably need to plan on speaking to about four different students, hoping that at least one of the conversations would take off. Little did we know that God was about to show us how much He is in control, and we are just to be obedient and go out to share our faith and He'd take care of who we talked to and the end product of us going out.
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| Soularium |
God sailed past our expectations, we never thought the first student we talked to would be such a long and fruitful conversation. We spoke to a freshman girl on campus for about an hour. We started by doing a picture survey, called soularium, which was created by Campus Crusade students on a summer project in NY. She was so open to share about her past, present and future goals as we worked through the survey asking her questions about what her current life situation was like, what she wished it was, her description of God, her spiritual background and what she hoped her spiritual journey included. Katelyn was able to share with her about having divorced parents, and create common ground with her there. The freshman girl was a joy to talk to, and I'm currently learning to follow the Holy Spirit's guiding while creating a positive environment for trust building with the students instead of forcing the direction of the conversations towards a decision about Christ every time, because they honestly might not be ready. Unfortunately we did not get into the presentation of the Gospel, but both Katelyn and I were able to tell a little of our testimonies about why we were on staff with Cru Ministries (which did include, God and His Son Jesus and God's role in our lives and decisions). Also as we were parting ways we invited her to the student group on campus, Christian Fellowship. She said that her grandmother is a Christian, so she is open to it and really wanted to stop by. We also exchanged e-mail addresses :). When we sat down with her she was reading a book about finding healing, and I hope that in God's time she'll find it through her Savior Jesus Christ. For now lets call her Brittney, so that I can refer back to her later. Please keep her in your prayers. I really hope to see her this Thursday.
College is a time where so many decisions are made. For Brittney she is on a path trying to figure out her path to inner-healing, and future total enlightenment. Our goal as Christians is to meet them where they are at and answer their questions on the road to the cross. We covet your prayers so much. Thank you for making this all possible. Please keep Matt and I in your prayers. Pray that we continue to get time on campus evangelizing to the precious students that God wants to bring into His family.
To God be the Glory,
Rebecca Litchfield
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