Campus Target

Hey! I’m home! That’s right, after about 42 hours of travel I arrived back where I started in New York. That was 5 days ago, and I’m just starting to feel like I’m making real progress on my jet-lag. Unfortunately, I got the flu over the weekend, but I’m almost over that as well. So [...]

The second week we had a handful come,
and one got saved! That was Amy. The third week we baptized Amy and our friend Peter and had a couple more show up than the week
before.

Since we’ve started meeting on Sundays, THREE GIRLS have made the decision to give their lives to the Lord!

For our study, we watched the movie the Passion. During the movie I looked at Walter and saw the he was crying…

I don’t know if you ever feel this way, but so often I feel like in each thing I do for God it’s ultimately His grace that carries me over the finish line. A little more than a month ago I was praying about our last few weeks here, and felt the urge to ask [...]

“Ding dong,” my tiny electric doorbell rang. Chuck came shuffling into my apartment with a look of concern and despair on his face. I’ve never seen him so worked up, so you can imagine my surprise when in the first two minutes he said “I think I need to follow Jesus to help me in my spiritual life.” Ehh, wasn’t this the guy who we didn’t have one spiritual conversation with during our whole two-day visit just last week?

Jenny knew God was real – He had spoken to her. She understood His plan of salvation that she’d heard me talk about at our Book club and wanted to know Jesus. However, she didn’t think this gift could be for her. She just wasn’t qualified, she thought.

As Jenny and I were sitting in the Korean restaurant, I asked her how she liked the Bible study Sydney had taught on salvation. Jenny replied that she agreed with it – it went along with what she’s seen in her life. I used a few illustration tools to make sure Jenny understood what Jesus had done for her. When I asked her if she wanted to receive this free gift from God, she said yes, but that she wasn’t qualified. It finally clicked for her when I wrote out a resume with Jesus’s name on top with all of His qualifications for Heaven and then crossed out His name and wrote hers instead. When I handed her the resume, she wanted it!

We asked if she was ready to follow Him. She had been waiting for a special day to make the decision, and this was it. It was so precious…

Huddled around the table, Rocky, Hans, and I taught Li Yang about baptism. As we sipped our tea in the drab unheated room, the words of renewal, redemption, life and salvation seemed all the brighter.