Final update from "Las Tortugas"
Hey friends,
This is the Tortugas again. (Josh, Liz, Emily, Taylor, Allison, and Nicki) We just got back from our final party at Guibia! It was pretty neat. Probably 75+ Dominicans came to the beach to enjoy some food, fellowship, volleyball, and praise & worship.
After we sang some songs, (in multiple languages) Caleb proceeded to share some from Acts 2:42-47. He challenged the local Christians to band together to pursue Christ and introduced a few of the leaders of La Vid, which is the Bible study on campus that has formed as a result of our trips.
There were about a dozen people who are on the second leg of the trip that were able to come to our party as well. They got to meet a number of the individuals that we have built friendships with this week. Please pray that momentum would really be built through this effort in La Vid and that laborers would be added.
God has answered many prayers over the last few days. We had a little bit of a run-in with the university administration. They claimed we didn’t have authority to hold our English classes, even though we had received permission from a faculty member. After about a full day, Caleb, Moncee, and our friend Steve were able to get everything sorted out and even met the president of the university! We got the green light to continue doing everything we wanted to do to spread the Gospel.
One of the cooler stories of answered prayer involves a young man named Javier. I (Josh) met him and was able to share the Gospel with him on Tuesday. He is an agnostic, but is pretty interested and was willing to discuss Christianity in-depth. After the conversation, one of Javier’s friends requested that I should be praying for Javier since he isn’t a Christian. I did, but didn’t really think anything of it.
The next evening, we were out to eat at Sbarro for pizza. I realized that the guy sitting across from me looked incredibly familiar. He was with another friend that was a Christian though and is involved in the local Campus Crusade group. I figured the reason he looked familiar was because of that. I didn’t connect the dots until he mentioned a book he was reading that this was the same Javier from the day before!
Nicki had shared the Gospel with him again just earlier that afternoon and challenged him with the truth of the Bible. She then invited him to come out to eat with us. I thought about how incredible it was that out of a campus of 100,000 students I was sitting across the table from the same person that I had prayed specifically for just the day before! He also came to the party we had at the beach and discussed his beliefs more with Nicki. Please be praying for his salvation and that he would get connected with the next group. Remember that God does answer prayer!
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