Campus Target

He looked at me and said “I really want this, this is my greatest dream”. I’ll never forget that…

I told her that I could get her a Bible and she said she would like one. I met with her the next week and was going to give her a Bible, but she had already gone out and bought one because she was so excited.

He had been thinking very deeply about one question in particular, which was, “If I believe in God, but do bad things, does He stop loving me?” We stood at our locked bikes for over 15 minutes talking…

Azure sent Hero and me a text message. Her text message said “…I have asked for God and He has answered me, thank you again for showing me the way. I believe I will make the decision soon.”

During the game some highlights included, Chinese fans wearing newspaper origami hats of various styles, such as the cabby, the pirate, and the marine to name a few. The match was insane, the Chinese fans don’t cheer like back at home, instead of “Lets go” it was …

“How will I know that God cares for me?”. I said to him “Did you ever think that maybe God cared so much for you, that He sent Hoagie and I from America to tell you about Him?”. He looked at me with his eyes wide, and choked back tears and said “Wow. That is a very deep thought. I’ve never thought of this before.”

Some of his last words as he departed for the night were “I am thankful that yēsū has allowed us to meet one another. I am very happy that you are my friend…

I park my bike and lock it up, and walk through the gates onto the field and it was as if all of the balls in play on both fields hit the fences surrounding the field at the same time. That’s the only logical thing that can happen when everyone, and I mean everyone, stops what they are doing, and turns not only their heads, but their bodies as well.

When you have 10 friend meetings a week and during each one you have the opportunity to share about God, you feel like you are on cloud 9 and you’re truly fulfilling your purpose! But, it is in the quieter moments where you have to truly believe and understand that you’re in the right place at the right time.

At 23 I thought I had a pretty good handle on who I was as a person: what I liked and didn’t like, what I was good at and not so good at, what I wanted to do with my life, and who I was in God. However, after my first week in China…