Midway there

This week marked the half way point here on project. We visited La Plata, which was a huge blessing to see some of my Argentine friends and stinter friends from last year.

It was good week, on Thursday my teammate Heather and I met a girl named Maria Esperanza (Mary Hope). We were able to do the Solarium (a picture image survey, created by Crusade) with her. The first question we asked her was what´s your major, to which she said she was studying biology because she wanted to figure out the meaning of life. (The campus I am on is called Exact Sciences. Many students who study science find it hard to believe that any god could exist. In fact, the more well educated a person becomes the harder it is for them to grasp that One Supreme Being does exist. ) Both Heather and I were really excited, both realizing that this was a divine appointment. We had just prayed for someone to talk to that was an english speaker and that would want to open up with us. She was both open and english speaking. Mary told us that her life had been pretty much complete, until this past month. She felt like every area of her life was falling apart; between her relationship with her boyfriend, her friends, and her family she was really struggling. We got through the survey with her, we were able to see a little bit about what she believed about God and where she was spiritually. She basically didn´t know what to believe, ¨is there a God or not?¨ We were right there, about to share the gospel and her friends walked up wanting to go eat. We are praying that we will be able to meet up with her tomorrow. We have an appointment scheduled, however, some other appointments have fallen through in the past. The girl we were supposed to meet with last week never returned our emails. Please pray that things will work and we will be able to develop a trust with her. Also, that there would be a way to transition into spiritual things.

English clubs went better this week, we had 4 students show up. The week before last no one showed up. They were really excited to meet with us and practice english. One of the girls is a Christian, she came to the table for our everystudent campaign and told us she was a believer. We´ve actually met several believers, which is a huge answer to prayer! We really want to spread the vision of wanting to share the message of the gospel with every student on campus. Another praise is that we have seen atleast 6 people come to faith in Jesus Christ, since we´ve been here. The soil is hard here, but God is working to soften it.

Our everystudent.com campaign seems to be going well. Students are curious why we´re hanging the posters up, asking the deep questions such as are all religions the same. Many people become curious when we foreigners start speaking in spanish, with a strange accent. Please keep praying that the students would desire to find truth and meaning for their lives. So many students are calloused to hearing about God and religion that they couldn´t care less. But, there are a good number of students that will stop and ask what we are doing. (We are allowing them to take surveys about the topics of the week, for a chance to win an ipod shuffle). We have information and articles about the weekly topics. This week were are asking them, ¨Are all religions the same?¨ We´ve seen a good response.

Thank you for your continued prayer and encouragement. I would not be here without your help.