Quick Praise Update

Hey there all,

Just wanted to make a quick update to share some praises for God with you all. This past Friday, myself and 3 others on our team went to a local university with two Thai Youth For Christ staff. There we spent a couple of hours basically doing conversational evangelism with Thai students. We went to the part of campus with English majors, then were introduced as native English-speakers and so we would talk to students, help them with homework, and share about the gospel.

The first student who I talked to was a guy named Wit, in his 3rd year at university as an English major. We talked a bit, he filled out a Youth For Christ survey card, and then I began to help him a bit with his homework. I was hoping to be able to share about Jesus with him but he wanted help on his homework because he had a class very soon so I helped him out, thinking that then he would go to class and that would be that. Lo and behold, his class got cancelled and so he came to lunch with us where we found out he was Hmong. One of the girls on our team is also Hmong and so began to talk to him and shared the gospel with him in her limited Hmong. Afterwards a few YFC staff prayed for him and we invited him to the "American Party" our team was hosting at the church on Sunday. He said "see you on Sunday" but I admit that I was skeptical and didn't want to get my hopes up that a student we had only met for a little while would travel across much of Bangkok just to hang out with some foreigners.

However...yesterday he came to the party about an hour early, and met some local church folk. By the time I showed up a half-hour before the party he had already believed on Christ and was excited about his new faith! This just goes to how God is entirely the decisive factor in bringing people to faith, for "it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God." (1 Cor. 1:21) And so we will boast in the Lord, and His great power and wisdom. Pray that Wit may be planted on the good soil and give God praise today for his global plan of redemption!

Seeking to treasure Christ more with all of you,
Erik