Category: Draw Students (Page 10 of 13)

Three students made decisions to follow Jesus at Catalyst Week 2! They joined with eight others at Catalyst who had made decisions to follow Jesus this school year and put their names on the cross together.

It was encouraging to see students affirm their faith in front of the community and then be embraced by the community afterward.

Praise God with me for his continued work drawing this generation to him!

Week 2 of Catalyst began tonight with 80+ students from schools in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. Our invitation to them is the same as to those students in Week 1 – Experience the life that Jesus offers.

At the end of Week 1 four students, in the group pictured above, made decisions to follow Jesus. Praise God with us for his continued work in the lives of students in the Central Region and pray for him to meet us as we gather this week.

The Missouri area reached 50 GIG’s (Groups investigating God) and have 8 more potential ones starting before the end of the semester!

50 was the goal set by the Area team prior to the start of their semester. Praise God with me that 50 groups of students are meeting on campuses in Missouri to discover Jesus!

Please pray for the staff and students to know what threshold they should invite students to cross at the end their GIG.

One more story from our staff. Praise God with me!

Brenden, International Ministry staff in St Louis: Alex* (an East Asian man who is studying English) has regularly attended our English Club for the whole school year. He has been relatively interested in Jesus, but for some reason wouldn’t stay very often for our large group events. Because of his busy schedule, I could never get together with him more often than once every few months to talk. It turns out he had been meeting weekly with our English Club leader, Charlene, to practice his English by reading the Gospel of John.

After doing this for a semester, he said his barrier to following Jesus was that he hasn’t read the whole Bible. Charlene assured him that it is not necessary to read the whole Bible before you make a decision, but reading the Bible is a process that consistently happens throughout your whole life. He then came back the next week telling everyone that he has chosen to follow Jesus.

Watch this video to see what we are inviting students to say yes to.

Praise God with me for these stories from our staff of students saying yes to Jesus!

George Stulac , Faculty staff in St Louis: Our weekly faculty Bible study at Lindenwood U is entirely faculty–except that one of the professors regularly brings one of his graduate students, a Buddhist from Cambodia.  Last week we did not meet because of spring break.  Today we met, and the professor was eager to report the news that his graduate student told him she has become a Christian.  She even called her parents to tell them, and they accepted her choice.

Rachel Black, Campus staff in Northern Iowa: When one of our Bible studies suggested an outreach to take a group to see the latest mainstream christian hit “God’s Not Dead 2”, I was skeptical.   But in an effort to spur on my student’s visions and dreams, I helped them get a van and organize the outreach. I couldn’t believe it when I received a 11pm text that night that said “David made a decision to follow Jesus tonight!” 

David is an old roommate from one of our apprentices John. Recently a close loved one of David committed suicide and left him in a crisis of faith. John pursued him intentionally and invited him to the movie as a distraction, which in turn led to a spiritual discussion. After a few hours and lots of prayer, David finally admitted- “I need Jesus in my life. I don’t think I can get through this without him.”

Watch this video to see what we are inviting students to say yes to.