Newcastle: Day Two
posted by Little Mo | Permalink |
Thanks so much for your prayers!
Last night's international event was totally awesome. It was co-ordinated by a local church worker but had CU "hosts" on every table to discuss with people. There must have been 150 people there - great meal, a talk on Mark 7 and then people sitting round chatting. At one point I looked round and every table was filled with people, Mark's Gospels open, having chats. Loads of students there from so-called "closed" countries, and a real privilege to be involved in.
Cold start again today in the tent for prayers and CUGs, then some work, and came back to find a gaggle of people around a laptop doing worldview surveys. That seemed to act as a good pull into the tent and both lunch bars were much busier (50 and 100 at a guess) with some great questions. Lots of questions about what to do if you don't "have faith" - so people claiming to want to be Christian but saying unable to believe. How to deal with that without accusing people of moral dishonesty I'm not sure!
Please pray for S, a Canadian student who can't believe that being good isn't good enough, another S from Mormon background, and a Muslim guy who asked a question about the trinity and said he'd read Mark.
Pub quiz with Mark 2 talk tonight!
Last night's international event was totally awesome. It was co-ordinated by a local church worker but had CU "hosts" on every table to discuss with people. There must have been 150 people there - great meal, a talk on Mark 7 and then people sitting round chatting. At one point I looked round and every table was filled with people, Mark's Gospels open, having chats. Loads of students there from so-called "closed" countries, and a real privilege to be involved in.
Cold start again today in the tent for prayers and CUGs, then some work, and came back to find a gaggle of people around a laptop doing worldview surveys. That seemed to act as a good pull into the tent and both lunch bars were much busier (50 and 100 at a guess) with some great questions. Lots of questions about what to do if you don't "have faith" - so people claiming to want to be Christian but saying unable to believe. How to deal with that without accusing people of moral dishonesty I'm not sure!
Please pray for S, a Canadian student who can't believe that being good isn't good enough, another S from Mormon background, and a Muslim guy who asked a question about the trinity and said he'd read Mark.
Pub quiz with Mark 2 talk tonight!
posted by Little Mo at 9:32 AM
2 Comments:
Hi Mo,
Still listening, still praying!
Would love to know at some less busy point how you respond to those who say they want to but are unable to believe.
Matt
I helped out at a CU mission at Newcastle in 95 (yes I'm old). There was snow then too, there was also a mid-week outdoor preach as sports teams met before heading off to be sporty.
i remember the speaker (can't remember his name) 'catching' the snowballs thrown at him as he spoke. Then as he finished a HUGE snowball fight broke out because sports had been cancelled!
Praying you will have a productive week, exciting conversations of seed sowing and harvest gathering.
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