Walking by Faith

Students Speak - Summer Beach Project 2010 from Campus Outreach @ Berry on Vimeo.

Blue Team getting ready for Beach Olympics the first week!


Thank you for investing in our students and helping them grasp the infinite love of our God. I can not begin to tell you about the countless conversations about the gospel I have gotten the privilege to have with students this summer. That you have invested in as well!

Please keep praying for the students at Beach Project that are investing their summers in knowing our God and making Him known.


Pray:

-That all the students at beach project (there are 215 total) would know Christ before the end of the summer.

-That the Lord would continue to give students excitement for sharing their faith and for discipleship

-That as we make plans for the upcoming semester at Montevallo that the Lord would make His will evident

DUring the summer we train students how to evangelize by evangelizing!! Here are just a few stories of how that is going.

"Hey guys, just wanted to pass along, if you haven’t heard already, that a guy two of our students shared with this summer may have become a Christian. He is a clerk at the Tom Thumb with the Post Office and they are following up with him. They are very encouraged and thought you all would be also. Praise God for what he can do through cold turkey evangelism!"

I also have some people that we have gotten to share with this summer that you can pray for...

Claire and I got to share with Sabrina who works at Arby's. She's a 20 year old single mom who stays away from church because she thinks people will judge her and is afraid she's made to many mistakes for God to forgive her. She responded really well to us sharing the gospel with her and said she had a lot to think about when she went home!She said she would even like to go to church with claire sometime this summer.

Tama and I got to share with Danielle in the food court at the mall. She is very intellectual and wonders how can we know that Christianity is the true religion out of all the religions in the world....how can you really know what is truth?and why should we really worry about it too much? We got to share the gospel with her and how christianity is the only religion in the world that can be verified and that Christ saves us not ourselves. We recommended a book on this called "If I were God I would make myself clearer" She said all that we shared was really interesting and makes her think but she's not exactly sure we can for know that it is truth...pray for her!

January and I got to share with Ryan who works at Kay Jewlers in the mall. He let us try on a 15,000 dollar wedding ring....ahh! haha he grew up Jehovah's Witness and though he originally said he was too busy to talk he still talked with us for a good 20 minutes. He just goes to school and work now and doesn't think too much about spiritual things but was interested in talking about differences between Jehovah's Witness and Christianity. We focused on the gospel and what Christ has done for us...pray for Ryan!

We are having an evangelism conference this weekend to learn more about sharing our faith. One of the most challenging talks I've ever heard on evangelism was given last night by one of our staff guys on why we don't share our faith. Here are a few of my notes.

1. Unbelief
2. Fear of REjection and Failure
3. We lack compassion for people
4. We lack love for Christ.

Remember what God has done in your life!
1 Peter 2:24-25
24(A) He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we(B) might die to sin and(C) live to righteousness.(D) By his wounds you have been healed. 25For(E) you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to(F) the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

"If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and unprayed for."
— Charles Spurgeon

This video has well known athiest Penn asking "How much do you have to hate someone not to tell them what you believe is true?"



I was really challenged by Luke 21:14-15 and reminded not to trust in my own words but rather to trust in Christ who has the power to change hearts!

verses 5-8

5 Find rest, O my soul, in God alone;
my hope comes from him.

6 He alone is my rock and my salvation;
he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.

7 My salvation and my honor depend on God [a] ;
he is my mighty rock, my refuge.

8 Trust in him at all times, O people;
pour out your hearts to him,
for God is our refuge.