Jun 6, 2010
Like one of my fellow students posted about earlier, we had the opportunity to go evangelizing in a park not too long ago. We went two by two, and trusting in the Lord to direct our paths. This time, I decided to take my guitar along with me so that I could play it and draw people over towards me and my partner, and then we could engage them in conversations. Anyway, we got dropped off at this park, I was partnered with another fellow student, and we decided to go walk down the path to see if there were any people there. First, we see this older gentleman with a dog. He rejected the tract. So, our number one attempt was a fail, but hey, at least he knows we cared enough about him to try. So I’ll take it as a win in my book.
After that we decided to go by the entrance to the park to sit on the bench and I’d try my guitar tactic. It didn’t work…and it was a little awkward to be playing my guitar when there was a tennis court right behind us. So I packed up and we went walking again. The next three opportunities were a success, the people took the tracts! Praise God! Now that we had some successes, we decided to walk through the neighborhood to see if there was anyone outside their houses in the Texas heat.
We got a tad lost…so we headed in the general direction we thought the park was after no success with the neighborhood. When we were nearing the park, we saw a group of teens hanging out with a video camera. So we went up to them and started talking to them. It was a great conversation. After a while we got the chance to share about the School of Discipleship with them, and about India, and about Gospel for Asia. At the end, we gave them two free books and headed back to our rendezvous point so that we could go home.
This whole experience was exhilerating though! I was so excited that I got the chance to share with people about Jesus, and that for the most part, they listened! I was afraid at first that my fear of people would get in the way of me actually having a conversation with people, but God is good and gave me just enough courage and boldness to step out in faith and share. Praise God!
I love evangelizing now! When I go home, after I graduate in July, I plan on taking my brother with me to evangelize around my hometown in Pennsylvania. If God is with me here in Texas, I’m 100% positive He will be with me in PA.
God is good!
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Jun 6, 2010
One of my favorite things about Gospel For Asia is the prayer meetings. We have a prayer meeting every Tuesday night after work, every morning before work on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays, Department prayer (The Volunteer department prayer is on Thursday mornings after morning prayer), and then my favorite…once a month we have a Friday all night prayer that goes from 6:30PM till 2:00AM.
It is so encouraging to pray for things that seem totally impossible from the world’s perspective, but when you pray in faith, believing that God has already answered it, and then later on hear about those very prayers being answered…man…it’s so awesome! God is good! So…my encouragement to you is: Keep praying! If you ask in faith, then believe that God will do it! Nothing is too hard or impossible for Him, just think about it. He created EVERYTHING, so how could it even be possible for Him not to do something else?
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Jun 4, 2010
Webster defines “Delusional”
2 a : something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated b : a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary; also : the abnormal state marked by such beliefs
The synonyms are elusion, illusion, hallucination, mirage mean something that is believed to be true or real but that is actually false or unreal. Delusion implies an inability to distinguish between what is real and what only seems to be real, often as the result of a disordered state of mind.
Why do I bring up being delusional? Well I was reading Francis Chan’s book “Crazy Love” and he talks about how the whole world is delusional because we believe this life is all about us. When since the beginning of time it has been all about GOD. I have honestly spent mostly all of my 21 years being delusional. Yes I have entertained the thought that the world only revolves because of God and not around me. Then again it is way more convieient and popular for it to revolve around me I really like it that way.
When we think about being delusional we think of that crazy loon in the white jackets living in a padded room. But the thing is in our hearts and mind we take that jacket put it on, step in to that padded room and walk around like crazies saying “It’s all about me! It’s all about me! It’s all about me!” We look like fools I mean I am sitting here thinking about it and I all I can say is we are stupid.
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Jun 4, 2010
In an earlier post I mentioned that I was initiated into the Volunteer Department via flying monkey attack. So I decided I’d share a bit more about what the Volunteer department is and what it does, and give a little bit more of an idea to you all about the opportunities we get wile working in the office. (this is off my very first newsletter, but I like what it says)
What the volunteer department does is work with all the different volunteers all throughout the country and finds events that those volunteers can set up a booth to share about the amazing opportunities Gospel For Asia has for them to be personally involved with reaching the lost in Asia. My job in the department is event manager for the Western and Central regions of the country.
So I find and register as a vendor for the different events, and then I work with the region managers for those regions to find the volunteers that can go to the events. I also make orders, so that the volunteers will have the materials they need from the free book, Revolution in World Missions, to ordering profiles, by shooting an email to the Fulfillment department, so people can sponsor the Bridge of Hope kids or a National Missionary.
When I first got to this department, I wasn’t quite sure why God placed me there. Why wasn’t He placing me somewhere that I actually knew what to do, like the video department, or the graphics department? Why the Volunteer department? But now I can plainly see why.
God is using the volunteer department to take me out of my comfort Zone, like He so frequently does, and is growing me in areas that I desperately needed growth and stretching. One example is getting me to not be afraid of the phone. He has made me realize that it’s not about me and what I’m not comfortable with. When I have to use the phone, I don’t think of how I am not comfortable with it. I think of how much of an impact that one phone call will have in reaching the lost in Asia. So I am very glad I am in the Volunteer department.
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Apr 5, 2010
So I learned two things yesterday. One, running was created as the worst kind of torture—fact. But two, and this is really the purpose of blogging here today, I am a very material centered person. Now I guess these are both things I have “known” before, but yesterday really just confirmed them.
See, yesterday afternoon I decided that when I went home then I would try to be productive and clear out a lot of my things that I don’t need. The whole idea of trying to simplify my life with all the clutter of stuff so that I wouldn’t be distracted by them anymore so that I would be more free to focus on God was an appealing and logical idea that I wished to pursue.
HOWEVER, this task took a lot more effort then I had anticipated. I was pulling out clothes I haven’t worn in forever, and realistically I forgot I even had them and yet I was extremely hesitant to give them away. But why is that?? I kept thinking of reasons to hold on to my 4th long sleeved black shirt (what if I need to go painting and some of the paint spills on my other 3?). really? that was my excuse?
And after much clinging and some relinquishing, I did manage to collect one large bag of clothes but I held on to a lot more then was necessary I’m sure. Maybe in the next couple months I will go for a take two and try again, cause who really needs eight hoodies? Texas isn’t THAT cold…
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