So after we got back from Echo Ranch for orientation, we jumped into our first full week on project. On Monday we had evangelism training on how to strike up spiritual conversations by using the Knowing God Personally booklet that Campus Crusade puts out as well as using Soularium. For those who don't know what these are, the Knowing God Personally booklet breaks the Gospel down into four easily communicated points. Soularium, is a tool Cru puts out that uses a group of 50 pictures with four or five questions to easily get people to talk about their life and spiritual journey. The questions start off more general and then get more spiritually focused. After the training, we spread out to different places around town where people usually just hang out. God truly blessed us with a great day to go sharing, because the weather was beautiful and there were a lot of cruise ships in so there were a ton of people just hanging out. Afterwards, we came back together to share about the conversations that we were able to have with people. There were all types of awesome conversations that took place that Monday. Some people got to talk to believers who wanted to here about why we were here, some got to listen to people who are searching for something, and some even got to share the Gospel with a couple of people. It was awesome and from the stories you could truly hear that God had been working through us!!! So on Tuesday, students who had already found jobs began to work. Students' jobs are their main outlet for ministry, just really trying to get to know their coworkers and enter into their lives and realizing that no matter where we are whether it is at work, school, or somewhere else, we are called to live a missional life-style... Monday night we had our first Monday Night Live of the year, which is a time to come together as a project and plan for the week. We also do Evangelism training during this time along with breaking up into guys time where Jason, who is on staff with Cru, talks about what the Bible says about being a man of God. Every Tuesday night we have what is called Manhood Development which is a time where we go out as guys and use the outdoors as a teaching tool spiritually and just about life as well. This is one of my favorite nights on project. Wednesday night is the weekly Cru meeting on the campus of the University of Alaska-Southeast. Thursday night is action group night. The action group leaders cook dinner for each group and we have a time of fellowship, Bible Study, and accountability together. During the day on Friday, we spread out to different places in town and did service work for different groups around time. That night, we all went camping with our action groups. My action group got to be boated out to an island and spend the night camping on Coglan Island.. It was awesome! On Saturday, we had another outreach event downtown. We gave away free hot dogs at the public park downtown and had multiple soulariums set up and got to have some really good conversations for about 3 hours or so... Then on Sunday, we split up to different churches in the community and then have free time in the afternoon... At night we have a huge crowd of project people, locals, and people we have met at work or in the community that come out for a time of fellowship and we play ultimate frisbee at one of the high schools!!!
It has been a great first week... So glad the students are finally here and we are in the normal schedule. It makes things a little less stressful on me!!! Thanks again for all of your thoughts and prayers!!
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