Friday, May 15, 2009

in full swing.

Project is here and this week we were in full swing on campus. Steve and I have the blessing of working with a team of four in the architecture, law and science faculties. For me its coming full circle as three years ago when I was first on project I was in architecture and so it's been a blessing to be back and focusing on this faculty even as I prepare to wrap up with the girls I'm discipling in the science faculties. This week was insane! Every day was long as we've been leaving early in the morning to meet our teams on campus and then the evenings are filled with training or team building activities. But in the middle of the long days and the tiredness that come with those has been an overwhelming sense of encouragement. Spending the days talking with students about their views on God and seeing the students from Canada get a taste on full on ministry has been great. Three girls from the Interamericana campus have also been spending the days with our team translating! It's been awesome to have them partnering with us and our sharing their faith, a couple of them for some of the first times. For me I've simply felt so blessed to get to be here on this project and to have such a great team to work with. The times of bible study and prayer we've had have been awesome and God has been opening doors all over the place for us to do ministry.

Monday morning Dorrie (one of our project directors...) and I walked with the Buisness Administration team over to their faculty and were planning on taking some time to share and them do some discipleship together. As we started a conversation with two students, a professor walked up to us and asked to talk with us. As we followed him to his office I was a little unsure of what was happening... more curious as to whether we were in "trouble" or not. We quickly learned that Francisco is the Director of Student Affairs. As we talked with him about what our goals and purpose was we had a chance to share about what we were doing. Francisco loved that we were here to work with the students and shared a little of what was on his heart about the student population in this new campus. Over that morning and the next morning we had a chance to connect with the Dean of the faculty and get classroom talks set up on time management including a chance to share the gospel openly in each of these classrooms! It's such a great opportunity!! The team that's in this campus is super excited and I know that God has opened up this huge door in this new faculty! And it's crazy to think it happened 10 minutes into our first morning on campus!

The stories go on but more than anything God is showing himself faithful in so many ways. This past Thursday we had 42 people at the weekly meeting on the national campus. This was such a huge answer to prayer as we've been praying to see 40 people at the weekly meeting! Then, following the weekly meeting our team had a chance to meet with some of the more committed students and plan an outreach for this upcoming week. It was great to meet with them and see them get excited about reaching thier campus. Please be praying for the outreach this Thursday!!! We're doing an outreach called, "Who is your hero?" with a huge media promotion campaign followed by a Thursday even with testimonies, a drama and a speaker focusing on why we know Jesus is our hero, He's saved us from death! Its happening quick but we're trusting God that He'll pull all the details together in His perfect time!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Bien pritty!