Ate breakfast and fed the sheep. Q&A about Moody with the parents. Very constructive. They would like us to do this again. The food: with Mom home, even the leftovers are over-the-top good.
Don’t need the walkie-talkies between cars to drive into town anymore. Everyone knows their way around now…cinema, bookstores, gas stations, restaurants…don’t need much else.
In the afternoon, we met up with two gals who were Campus Crusade Staff on the university. They asked us to talk to students at the university using surveys. We went to the university cafeteria, ate lunch, and spread out to talk to students. Quite a few good conversations! The students were all open to talk about anything. Daniel and Daniel actually videoed a couple of conversations! Each team member felt that the experience taught them how “intentional” we all need to be about evangelism. Daniel said that the experience made him ask himself why he doesn’t do it more often. He said that it’s not hard, he just doesn’t think about it. Brad wondered why we don’t do it more often with the students from the other colleges in Spokane. We discussed being intentional in every day situations, like buying gas at the same gas station in order to build a relationship with the gas station attendant. Lots of other daily situations came to mind.
There are three/four ‘Christian’ campus clubs on the university: Campus Crusade, Navigators, InterVarsity… Total participants in these groups around 100. There is one Muslim campus club on the university. Total ‘members’: 500+ We believers need to take this seriously.
The pastor joined us as we were finishing lunch, and he brought Phil and I up to speed on his ‘journey’ into the ministry. We hope that we encouraged him. He loves his work.
Debriefed around 2pm by the two gals with Crusade, and they were greatly encouraged with our experiences. They really wanted us to stay until Friday and attend their weekly meeting. We leave Friday morning for Spokane.
Time on our hands in the city, so everyone voted to go to a movie. Coffee shop first, then most of us watched “Moneyball”.
Supper. Pastor came to supper, too. Good conversations around the table. Lots and lots of laughter. Students cleared the table, washed the dishes, and scurried off to finish preparing their country presentations. Invited the parents to join us tomorrow for the presentations. (Good idea, Christine).
The chickens arrive tomorrow: 110,000 baby chicks. Another new experience for the team. No one is allowed to take one home. Couldn’t keep it quiet for two days in the car, anyway. No one would believe that the chirping was a cell phone.
Bedtime.
