How has evil invaded your space? Do you think religion promotes racism?

These were just two of the questions I asked students this past week on campus. Luke and I spent a lot of time on campus as it was the first week back to classes, with most of my time specifically dedicated to evangelism. It was a week where we got to see God work but the work isn’t over yet. Please pray that the students we’ve gotten to know and those we’re still meeting will be moved to take a closer look at Jesus.
The questions above were asked at “Proxe” stations. These are designed to get students thinking and talking about a topic that not only matters to them but to the Gospel as well. A couple of pictures are posted from our religion and racism board. We asked students to vote yes or no on the question and then tell us a little more about their answer if they wanted. This opened up the chance for Luke, a student, or me to hear their ideas and then tell them about Christ’s reconciling work on the cross. It’s an issue that many students think about but not many organizations talk about in this way.
The next station, “How has evil invaded your space?” is pictured as well. We ask students to place a sticky red dot in each box where they or someone they know has been impacted by one of those evils. You can see some of the responses by about the middle of the way through. This brought up the conversation about what students think about these evils and their origins. We got to ask them if they think God exists and cares about it and what they thought about Jesus. We got to share the Gospel with a number of students as we told them of this terminal sickness that humans carry and the complete cleansing we receive through Christ taking the disease and death for us. A number of students even signed up to take a look at the Bible with us and investigate who Jesus really is! Praise God!
A few pictures show our students at the Urbana 09 missions conference held the week between Christmas and New Years. Check out www.urbana09.org for videos from the conference. It was a time for our students to hear and think about Christ’s call on their lives and for us to grow closer as a group.
Finally, we like to have fun here at Wayne. We went out bowling this past Saturday and laughed a lot together amid some healthy competition. It was the exact blend of laughing, yelling, and moving around that I love.