East Asia pt. 2

Finally have found some time again to write more about my trip...

One thing that we seemed to do a lot of on our trip was English corners. Basically what we did was meet with college students (sometimes people that were older too) and talked with them. It started out as mostly small talk so they could practice their English, but we were looking for any opportunity to talk with them about Jesus.

At the first English corner we were at, my friend Sarah and I were talking with two girls that were sophomores in college. We talked about the things we liked to do and what were studying in school, it was hard at first to think of things to say but we got the hang out it and the conversation started flowing pretty well. At one point Sarah asked the girls what they did for Christmas because Christmas isn't really something that is greatly celebrated in China. The girl told us she spent Christmas in church one year, that was our door opening. Sarah asked her some more questions but the girl quickly changed the subject. She told us she believes in science and I pray that her eyes would be open to God's truth.

A few days later were at another university for another English corner. I would have to say that this was my favorite English corner. I spent the entire night talking with two girls that were such sweethearts. Our group taught the students some line dances and we got to sing for them as well, mainly fun songs. Our group also got to do our dance that I think I mentioned in my last post. After the song our leader told us to use the song as a way to start talking about God. I did not even have to bring up the song because one of the girls asked me right off the bat what the song meant. I began to explain to her how we are God's creation and we are all beautiful things because we are his. She then asked me about the Bible. I shared with her how God loves us so much that he sacrificed his son just to save us. I shared a bit more, and then the girl looked at me and told me, "I can tell that your love for God is so sincere." WOW! I may not have lead her to Christ but it was clear that His light was shining through me and planted a seed in this girls life.

Well after that amazing night the next day was spent with two different house churches. I loved these because me and one of the other guys on the team got the opportunity to lead a little worship. I was going crazy up until this point because it had been so long since I had sung on the top of my lungs to Jesus. That experience was so amazing and I will never forget it.

Next post I'll talk about the kindergarten.