Today was so amazing! I am at a much better place than at the beginning of the week! praise God!
So today we started our day off at "the space" and met up with the arts track before we headed out to campus. Today we were encouraged to use Soularium as our outreach tool. I stinkin love Soularium because it is a picture survey...you ask students to pick pictures that represent their answer to a question...it is an amazing way to connect with people(people will tell you the craziest stuff), and start really great spiritual conversations that will hopefully lead into sharing the gospel.
So my team/some art kids went over to our home college(Kingsborough). On the subway ride over(which happens to be very very long) I took some time to hang out with Jesus...I prayed that he would fill me with his joy today...and he did. Nathan(from the arts track) was my partner, he is great. We prayed and then headed out...the first two convos we had were not really progressive by our standards but hopefully God used us anyways...but the third convo was pretty sweet...we talked to three teachers from the high school that is located on Kingsborough's campus. We had a dude that could have cared less about God and two ladies who came from "religious" backgrounds growing up. We went through soularium and got some great feed back from them...I could see that the convo could possibly die and in my head I refused to leave without sharing the gospel...it was a spark of determination that kinda freaked me out honestly...So I asked a question that related to a previous answer about God and I asked that if it was possible for us to have a personal relationship with God, what would it take to achieve that...and I was astonished when they said "oh you just have to be good and live life the best you can"...whoa...then I asked if they thought that us being "good" was good enough to meet God's standard...and the response was a little more hmmm and they said well yeah...and then it came out of my mouth, the typical Crusade question...on a scale of 1-10 what is your desire to know God personally...dude said 2, girl 1 said 5.5, and girl 2 said an 8...and then it happened...we shared the gospel with them...it was way cool and so God...and even though they didn't come to a decision, its cool Jesus has the rest. And yeah it was fun, and praise God for all of it...the good, the bad, and those three people who took the time out of their lunch to listen to a couple of crazy Christians.
We had to be back at "the space" today by 3:00 for team time...team time is great because we get to spend time praying for eachother and talking about what God has done or what we would like to see him do...Tonight for dinner we went up to Harlem for some good ole soul food...I was so excited it was ridiculous! I had fried chicken with a helpin of collards and candied yams and a big ole glass of sweeeeeeeet tea! it was a blessing to my stomach...well until after I finished eating and could barely walk from being so full ugh! And it wasn't even that much food...I mean it was a good sized dinner but not too much...oh well needless to say im still hurtin...but it was worth it because I felt like I was in the south for like an hour!
Please be in prayer for my day tomorrow...Friday's are the day we spend with our international student (Kathy is mine). We are going to the Metropolitan Museum of ART, home to van gogh and monet...I am far too excited...Please pray that I will not pass out while observing two of my favorite artists but more importantly that Sami and I will get to have good conversation with Kathy and hopefully get to talk with her about spiritual things. Kathy's boyfriend is a Christian and the staff women here have told me that she is definitely searching and wants to know more about the whole Jesus thing...so that is exciting!
p.s. RestInPeace Michael Jackson :(
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