Thursday, June 23, 2011
Hello again!
Today is my team's last full day in Suva. Tomorrow we will be heading to the Student Life Student Conference until Tuesday, when we will head to Mana Island for debriefing, then Saturday we will head to Nadi and fly out Sunday morning. This will probably be my last update from Fiji, I'll fill you all in on the rest of the trip once I am back in the states.
This was a really cool week of ministry, which was awesome because we were all pushing hard to finish strong. Monday we went to FNU to initiate conversations with students there. It was the beginning of a new trimester for certain majors, so there were a of students we hadn't talked to yet. Josh, Sean, and I shared with a group of 5 people about what it means to have a relationship with God. All 5 of them had grown up going to church with their parents, but 4 of them said that they had never actually made a decision to trust Jesus...so the 4 of them decided to trust Christ with us right then!
Tuesday we had an informational meeting for Student Life at the FNU campus. We had invited people the day before and the day of and there was a decent turn out. A few of the students taht we had shared with on Monday showed up, including Ben who placed his faith in Christ with the group of 4. Josh and I hung out with him after the meeting and took him to get some lunch. He even decided that he wanted to go to the student conference this weekend and signed up on the spot. Josh and I were also able to meet up with him again on Thursday to go through a follow-up bible study. We learned all about what is true of us once we place our faith in Christ. We are children of God, our sins are forgiven, God will never leave us, we have eternal life, etc. It was really cool to see Ben learn so much about his new relationship with God in such a short time.
Last night the hotel staff at the Suva Motor Inn threw us a little good-bye party which included coffee, tea, juice, cookies, etc and a song that they all sang to us. It was pretty cool that they would put so much into saying good-bye to us, but I guess that having us around all summer made a lot of them grow quite fond of us. After that we had a talent show which was a fun, quirky way to finish off the week. We had songs sung, poems read, raps, and even some magic tricks. It was a lot of fun.
Today is our last day, so we have a free day to take care of whatever we need to before we leave Suva. For me that includes coming to the internet cafe to update this blog, doing some last minute souvenir shopping, and packing everything up into my suitcase. Tonight we have a banquet dinner where we will all share highlights from the trip, hear all of the numbers for how many conversations were initiated, how many times the gospel was presented, how many people placed their faith in Christ, etc during our time in Fiji. It will be really cool to look back at all the work God has done through our team over the past 5 weeks in Suva.
Like I said I probably won't be updating till I'm back in the states. Please pray for the Student Conference over the next few days. Many of the students who are serious about growing in their faith will be there and it could be very crucial for their walks with the Lord.
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