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July 10, 2011
(Story about Caleb - coming soon!)
Feb 28, 2011 - as posted by fellow Student Venture headquarters staff member, Howard Crutsinger...
Changed Lives :: Plano, A Student Experiences God at Work
Part of our Student Conferences is giving the students an opportunity to share their faith in the community where the conference is held. They are armed with a short 5-question inoffensive survey to open a conversation, a Connecting with God booklet that talks about Jesus and having a person relationship with Him, and the Holy Spirit! We’ll take the students to a mall, on the beach or even to area neighborhoods.
This story is about an outreach at one of our conferences and a student’s experience in sharing Jesus.
This student’s life (and the lives of the girls at McDonalds) will never be the same because she experienced the Holy Spirit working through her to bring someone to Christ. Thank you for making it possible for us to be on the field, hold these conferences, and give students opportunities to share. Lives are changed because you are faithful.
This story is about an outreach at one of our conferences and a student’s experience in sharing Jesus.
This student’s life (and the lives of the girls at McDonalds) will never be the same because she experienced the Holy Spirit working through her to bring someone to Christ. Thank you for making it possible for us to be on the field, hold these conferences, and give students opportunities to share. Lives are changed because you are faithful.
A Student Experiences God at Work
Mackenzie is a senior at Plano HS and went to our FastBreak Winter Conference. Here is her story about sharing Jesus...
"When the Student Venture bus dropped me and the other campers off at a McDonald's in South Dallas, I wasn’t super excited to share the Gospel with strangers. In fact, there was a spiritual battle raging in my heart and I felt very discouraged. It was my 6th outreach with Student Venture and I had never experienced a stranger accepting Christ.
I always have trouble initiating a conversation, so this year I decided to use the MLK- themed survey to start conversations. This particular outreach I felt very successful in the conversations that my bi-lingual partner, Vidi, and I had with shoppers and employees at the local Fiesta supermarket. Although all the people we talked to considered themselves Christians, none of them had ever heard about having a personal relationship with God. Vidi and I got to explain the gospel to them and they let us pray for them, but none of them were comfortable saying the prayer themselves at that moment. Already the outreach was going better than I had ever experienced before, and it was only going to get better from there!
As all of the Plano and Carrolton students were gathering in front of McDonalds waiting for the bus, my good friend Bola spotted two teenage girls that she wanted to talk to and asked me to go with her. We awkwardly began by asking them the first three survey questions and asked them if they knew that God wanted to have a personal relationship with them;one of the girls said no and the other said yes. So we continued sharing the gospel with them, making it clear that God wants them as they are, and that we can only depend on Jesus’ death on the cross for salvation. As the bus pulled up to the edge of the street, one of the girls accepted Christ and the other rededicated her life to Christ.
I felt very excited as I walked onto the bus because although I was physically there and technically I shared the Gospel with the two girls, it wasn’t me at all. God had done all the work by preparing the girls’ hearts beforehand and speaking to them through me and Bola. I realized that this outreach went so well because I was trusting God to speak through me instead of trying so hard to share the good news in my own strength."
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Feb 23, 2011 - "The Influence of Sisters" (part 1 of 2), SV Northern Michigan
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2010
Two school years ago, Marcela would pick up her daughter in the high school daycare and leave without talking to anyone. She was in an abusive relationship with her daughter’s father and had little support at home. Last year she got out of that relationship and came to the parenting classes I led. We were amazed when we hosted a Christmas party and saw her having a blast with the other teen moms she had gotten to know in the parenting class. When it came time for me to share about the true meaning of Christmas, chaos hit. I managed to keep my composure and spoke louder as babies screamed. I noticed that Marcela and another girl were having a conversation of their own.
Today we had our Christmas party for these young moms once again. Of course there were babies screaming and playing in the middle of our circle during my message, but Marcela had her eyes fixed on mine. At the end as the girls packed up their gifts and left, I gave a Bible to one girl who had recently told me she needed one. Without me even asking, Marcela grabbed a Bible for herself and put it on top of her daughter’s stroller.
I thought to myself how easy it would be to get discouraged at such a chaotic atmosphere and to doubt whether any of the girls took anything away from it at all. But I’m coming to realize that it’s not the spoken message, but rather the message I live out in my life with these girls and the opportunities I take whenever I get a chance to encourage them with the truth of the gospel. I’m so thankful that God is the One who draws them to Him in the midst of all of this.
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September 13, 2010
Hi Friends!
Here's a story from Student Venture headquarters that really encouraged me and helped me to see actual spiritual multiplication in action...I hope it encourages you too =)
Love,
Kar-Lai
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"ONE REACHES TWO; TWO REACH FOUR - - - "
by Tom and Bea Ann Bridges, staff serving in Dallas, TX
At the heart of this ministry, we are trusting God, by His Spirit, for spiritual multiplication among high school students.
Through your prayers and partnership, and by the power of the Holy Spirit, the Lord is raising up discipleship chains at
Newman Smith High School. For example . . .
Sasha (vball captain and NSHS class of 2007), became a SV student leader and began to discipleRani, who shared her testimony at an outreach.
. . Rani (vball captain and class of 2010), began to disciple Hanna.
. . . Hanna (varsity basketball player, class of 2011), began to mentor her younger sister Maddie
. . . . Maddie (varsity vball player, class of 2013) had an opportunity to lead her friend Kathryn to Christ at Fastbreak 2010
. . . . . Jenna (current vball captain and class of 2011), discipled by Sasha, is planning a vball outreach this semester.
Through sharing their faith individually and at group outreaches, these girls have seen many students give their lives to Christ in the past three years, and then have been actively involved in mentoring these young Christians.
All it takes is one student who leads another to Christ and disciples them for a year, and then the next year those two students each lead another to Christ and disciples them. Soon, thousands of students have accepted Christ as their Lord and Savior and are discipling others to do the same.
Please pray that this budding multiplication chain would continue to grow and bear much fruit and give great glory to God!
Here's a story from Student Venture headquarters that really encouraged me and helped me to see actual spiritual multiplication in action...I hope it encourages you too =)
Love,
Kar-Lai
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"ONE REACHES TWO; TWO REACH FOUR - - - "
by Tom and Bea Ann Bridges, staff serving in Dallas, TX
At the heart of this ministry, we are trusting God, by His Spirit, for spiritual multiplication among high school students.
Through your prayers and partnership, and by the power of the Holy Spirit, the Lord is raising up discipleship chains at
Newman Smith High School. For example . . .Sasha (vball captain and NSHS class of 2007), became a SV student leader and began to discipleRani, who shared her testimony at an outreach.
. . Rani (vball captain and class of 2010), began to disciple Hanna.
. . . Hanna (varsity basketball player, class of 2011), began to mentor her younger sister Maddie
. . . . Maddie (varsity vball player, class of 2013) had an opportunity to lead her friend Kathryn to Christ at Fastbreak 2010
. . . . . Jenna (current vball captain and class of 2011), discipled by Sasha, is planning a vball outreach this semester.
Through sharing their faith individually and at group outreaches, these girls have seen many students give their lives to Christ in the past three years, and then have been actively involved in mentoring these young Christians.
All it takes is one student who leads another to Christ and disciples them for a year, and then the next year those two students each lead another to Christ and disciples them. Soon, thousands of students have accepted Christ as their Lord and Savior and are discipling others to do the same.
Please pray that this budding multiplication chain would continue to grow and bear much fruit and give great glory to God!
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