God answers prayer. In January I asked you to join me in praying that God would direct me towards missional students at Wash U who could be a part of re-planting One Voice. I have to confess that a part of me didn't believe that He would answer.
But He did.
Enter Jenn. I met Jenn in one of the freshmen residence halls at the end of January and had a gut sense that I needed to get to know her. It was an exciting moment!
It took a few weeks before our schedules lined up and we were able to meet for breakfast. I asked her about her time in college so far and why she wasn't connected with one of the other Christian fellowships on campus. She said that she had tried a few out but that none of them felt like places she would feel comfortable bringing her non-Christians friends. The more we talked the more it became clear that she had a lot of those and she was consistently finding ways to communicate God's love for them. She firmly believed that her ministry as a college student was to be the kind of friend that introduces people to Jesus.
Needless to say, this was a really fun conversation to be in the middle of!
I shared with her about my sense that God was calling One Voice to be a conversion community, a place where we were being transformed because of our obedience to Jesus and inviting our friends to experience the same thing. Jenn exclaimed, "Oh my gosh! You're the first person I've met at Wash U that has that kind of vision. That's what I want to see happen, too!"
Jenn is a missional Christian. She knows that God wants to uniquely use her in His mission to draw her friends into a relationship with Him.
Jenn and I are praying big, bold prayers for the incoming class of freshmen. We can't wait to see who Jesus is going to call us to serve in this Fall.
God answers prayer.
It took a few weeks before our schedules lined up and we were able to meet for breakfast. I asked her about her time in college so far and why she wasn't connected with one of the other Christian fellowships on campus. She said that she had tried a few out but that none of them felt like places she would feel comfortable bringing her non-Christians friends. The more we talked the more it became clear that she had a lot of those and she was consistently finding ways to communicate God's love for them. She firmly believed that her ministry as a college student was to be the kind of friend that introduces people to Jesus.
Needless to say, this was a really fun conversation to be in the middle of!
I shared with her about my sense that God was calling One Voice to be a conversion community, a place where we were being transformed because of our obedience to Jesus and inviting our friends to experience the same thing. Jenn exclaimed, "Oh my gosh! You're the first person I've met at Wash U that has that kind of vision. That's what I want to see happen, too!"
Jenn is a missional Christian. She knows that God wants to uniquely use her in His mission to draw her friends into a relationship with Him.
Jenn and I are praying big, bold prayers for the incoming class of freshmen. We can't wait to see who Jesus is going to call us to serve in this Fall.
God answers prayer.
Jenn (on the far right) desires to see her friends and other
students at Wash U understand that they are deeply loved by God.
students at Wash U understand that they are deeply loved by God.
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