Hey all! Sorry it has been a little while; the past week or so has been great, but very busy! I started my job last Monday and worked 6 days in a row. This is a bit exhausting since we also have many other Project activities in the evenings. However, God definitely sustained me!

The theme of last week was "Killing You Giants." We based the theme on the seemingly impossible story of David and Goliath. We looked at all the lies we let ourselves believe, such as that "people won't want to hear about Jesus," that "I don't know enough to share the gospel,"that "I don't have time to go sharing," or "no one will respond to what we have to say," and decided not to believe them. We each made personal goals of how many gospel conversations we want to have and how many times we want to share the gospel during that week; my goals were 15 gospel initiations and 5 gospel presentations. It being Senior Week (when all the high school seniors come to party for the week), we had the perfect opportunity to share with students a bit younger than us. What I really wanted was to be able to share the Knowing God Personally (KGP) booklet that explains the gospel because I haven't been able to do that while sharing as of yet.

I went out sharing last Wednesday during the beautiful South Carolina evening for our outreach night with my friend Laura. We walked along the beach that night, praying specifically that God would allow us to be able to share the KGP that night. A little while later we saw a few people around our age who were sitting down in the sand. We questioned whether we should approach them, and then finally decided that we should. We sat down next to them and began a lively conversation with the two girls, one of whom just graduated high school and the other who would be a junior in high school. They and all their other senior friends had been drinking, which is probably why they found it intruiging that we were from Wisconsin! We talked about the differences between Virginia and our state for a while while about seven of their friends came and went. Eventually one of the girls asked, "So you guys are here for a reason, right? You're part of a church or something, yeah?" We responded that we were with Cru, and when more of their friends joined us they exclaimed, "They're missionaries from Wisconsin!!" We just smiled and said "Yeah...!"  Another girl soon asked if we had a survey or something like that that we did (which is what we use to get into spiritual conversations when sharing), so we said "sure do! Wanna take it?" "Sure!" We then gave them the survey, to which they responded really well. The high school junior in particular, Morgan, along with her boyfriend, JR, both were very intruiged and began to pour out many of the details of their lives. Morgan told us some of the gory details of her past, such as how she had been raped, her best friends' mom had died of cancer and how her mom had had an abortion and lived daily with the guilt, trying to somehow make up for what she had done. After asking them the third question, I asked if we could explain God's plan of salvation and way of knowing for sure that they could go to heaven, to which they agreed. I then went on to use the KGP to explain the gospel to them! As I explained how we can be completely forgiven of our sins because of Jesus' death, Morgan exclaimed, "My mom needs to see this! Can I keep this book?!" (aaah!!!) We went on to explain the rest of the gospel, and at the end both Morgan and JR expressed the desire to receive Christ, so we prayed with them. I don't know if they were truly sincere or where they are at now, but I do know the there is incredible power in the gospel and in God's word, as well as that He specifally wanted us to talk with them. Please pray that these two people will truly follow Christ in their lives ahead of them! Praise God for answered prayers and open hearts!


I did end up meeting both of my goals, to which I owe completely to the Lord. I had several other sweet conversations as well, but I won't go into all of those.One thing we did yesterday, though, was beat down with bats, sledgehammers and botchy balls this huge makeshift giant that we had constructed to represent facing our giants. Well, my turn came around, so I wound up with the botchy ball in hand, excited and ready to take out the head of the giant! I threw it and definitely missed the giant completely and instead smoked the house next door, just barely missing the window. And I was also the only one that missed. How embarrassing! But mostly funny, I must say. (: In total us 100 students initiated 1,600 conversations this past week, had around 400 gospel conversations and around 33 people received Christ! This was so incredible; there are absolutely insane stories I could tell you, such as people randomly driving to North Carolina and ending up leading a woman to Christ there! Our God is incredibly powerful, beautiful, and chooses to allow US to help Him bring His children home! I'm just so amazed by Him.


The theme for this next week is All for One, which is focusing on building our community so we can have a bigger impact. We are also focusing on continuing our ministry in our workplaces. I am praying and hoping for opportunities this week! Please keep praying for that, as well as for the 3 girls who still need jobs. Thank you all! (: