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University of Newcastle Christian Union Events Week :: Wednesday (written on Thursday!)
Day (fortunately not week!) three is notoriously the hardest day of a mission. You feel like you’re a whole age from the beginning of the week, but realise that you’ve got the same again before the end! However the prayer meeting was still well attended and a few people even did the actions for “Our God is a Great Big God”.
We spent the morning doing worldview surveys and it was fantastic to get eight students turn up and volunteer to help out with that – because of university rules the CUGs (CU Guests) aren’t allowed to approach students by themselves, but have to be with a CU member who is a student. In a way this is good because it does mean that they can support CU members rather than doing their job for them. We did a good number of surveys in the morning and it’s been interesting to see the dominant worldviews – mostly existentialism and naturalism – this seems a bit of a shift from the last students I did surveys with where there were far more nihilists…
The lunchbars went fantastically well. You can see Mo’s account on his blog. I got to sit in the first one as my friend came along – please do pray for him, L. The title was: “I’m not a murderer or a rapist. Why isn’t being good, good enough? Mo spoke fantastically well on morality not even being in the right ball park when it comes to acceptance by God. There were over two hundred people across the two lunchbars, which is an absolutely awesome turnout. Please do be praying that as such significant numbers of people hear the gospel that they will turn to Jesus and that the Holy Spirit will be working in their hearts and minds.
In the evening we had little grub-crawls come meal-with-a-message. The university halls CU groups had organised little groups of people to go round three CU members’ houses and to have starter at one house, main at the next and pudding at the last house and over pudding there was a little “gospel-thought” from a CUG that went along. We had twelve in our little group including six non-Christian girls. I did a little though on Jesus not being who we expect him to be based around the account of the healing of the paralysed man in Mark 2. Do pray for those that came along to those events that they would continue to investigate the claims of Jesus.
Today we have lunchbars and a curry night so do be praying for ticket sales for the evening and for strength, endurance, grace, peace and joy for Mo and the others who are busy supporting the CU.
God bless.
Dear Freedom
University of Newcastle Christian Union Events Week :: Wednesday (written on Thursday!)
Day (fortunately not week!) three is notoriously the hardest day of a mission. You feel like you’re a whole age from the beginning of the week, but realise that you’ve got the same again before the end! However the prayer meeting was still well attended and a few people even did the actions for “Our God is a Great Big God”.
We spent the morning doing worldview surveys and it was fantastic to get eight students turn up and volunteer to help out with that – because of university rules the CUGs (CU Guests) aren’t allowed to approach students by themselves, but have to be with a CU member who is a student. In a way this is good because it does mean that they can support CU members rather than doing their job for them. We did a good number of surveys in the morning and it’s been interesting to see the dominant worldviews – mostly existentialism and naturalism – this seems a bit of a shift from the last students I did surveys with where there were far more nihilists…
The lunchbars went fantastically well. You can see Mo’s account on his blog. I got to sit in the first one as my friend came along – please do pray for him, L. The title was: “I’m not a murderer or a rapist. Why isn’t being good, good enough? Mo spoke fantastically well on morality not even being in the right ball park when it comes to acceptance by God. There were over two hundred people across the two lunchbars, which is an absolutely awesome turnout. Please do be praying that as such significant numbers of people hear the gospel that they will turn to Jesus and that the Holy Spirit will be working in their hearts and minds.
In the evening we had little grub-crawls come meal-with-a-message. The university halls CU groups had organised little groups of people to go round three CU members’ houses and to have starter at one house, main at the next and pudding at the last house and over pudding there was a little “gospel-thought” from a CUG that went along. We had twelve in our little group including six non-Christian girls. I did a little though on Jesus not being who we expect him to be based around the account of the healing of the paralysed man in Mark 2. Do pray for those that came along to those events that they would continue to investigate the claims of Jesus.
Today we have lunchbars and a curry night so do be praying for ticket sales for the evening and for strength, endurance, grace, peace and joy for Mo and the others who are busy supporting the CU.
God bless.
Dear Freedom
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