November 9th - 11th was the Cross 09 event for Campus Crusade for Christ movements all over the United States. Since our staff team is an ESM (Ethnic Student Ministry) team, we got to host other staff who wanted to participate in cross-cultural ministry! Some staff from the University of Texas in Austin and the Regional Office came to do ministry with our team.
Andrew and I are still raising support full time, so we are not able to be on campus right now. BUT, we got special permission to participate in Cross 09! It was great for us to have some renewed vision. We are spending our time only meeting new people, sharing our vision with them, and asking them to join our team, and this is difficult work for us. It can be hard for me (Tricia) to remember that God is the great Provider, and that He is sovereign over the timing of our support-raising. But I was super-encouraged to be around other staff and to get to interact with students.
The highlight for me (Tricia) was getting to visit the Destino movement at UNT here in Denton. Erin, our team leader, has been meeting with a group of Latino-American students who are interested in growing spiritually. Recently they told her they aren't good at reading the Bible and want to understand better how to understand scripture. So she is spending Tuesday nights with them, telling them about how the entire Bible is the story of the Creation, Fall, and Redemption of all created things, and how it all points to Jesus as the Redeemer. During Cross 09, though, the Destino group wanted to learn about evangelism, so Erin asked me if I would come lead the workshop. Of course I would! I love talking about evangelism and doing evangelism training. Here are some pictures from the Destino night:
We started out at Olivia's house and her 3 other friends and our group of 8 staff all ate dinner together
Then we headed to UNT and Erin introduced our time together
Some students and staff in the audience
On the right is Daniella, a student who is really interested in becoming a Christian since the evangelism workshop!
You can see the diagram in the background. Another staff friend taught it to me, so I passed it along when I taught it to the students. It explains how the invitation to be in a relationship with Jesus is more like a marriage covenant than a business contract.
