Last night we had the International Praise Festival at the University of Central Oklahoma, in partnership with a few different Christian organizations on campus and several local churches in the area. It was probably one of my most favorite events I've ever been a part of!
One of the worship bands from a local church here played throughout the evening, while we had some Latin American students sing a couple praise songs in Spanish, two Nepali students and three Japanese students share their testimonies, a whole group of African students and performers sing and dance, and the student director of Impact (a ministry for African American students in partnership with Campus Crusade) shared his testimony and a brief Gospel presentation. We had over 200 people come, and at one point in the evening everyone was out of their seats, dancing and singing with the African band!
Through donations we were able to give out about 150 New Testaments to everyone that came, and we had about 30 international students say they wanted to celebrate Christmas with a Christian family in the area. But, by far, the most exciting part of the evening was to hear the five international students share their testimonies of how they came to believe in and follow Jesus, especially with all the Japanese and Nepali students in the audience!
Please pray for these students and for God to use last night to bring many international students into new life in Christ! Also, pray that the Spirit would continue to move in many of the Christian's hearts to reach out to international students more and more!
*We filmed the whole event, and I will put some of the video up as it is available.*
Friday, October 26, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
2007 Oklahoma Catalytic Summer Projects
A slideshow of pictures from our students' summer projects. They went to Branson, Santa Cruz, Breckenridge, Thailand, Italy, and South Korea.
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