This morning the team went to Evangel Ministries. There we heard an amazing speaker, I only wish I could remember his name... ugh! Either way, props to the speaker! He talked about the story of Jonah. He told us that we are Jonah and Detroit is our Nineveh... the city we didn't want to go to... WAY different than our home towns... maybe we even fought God when He told us to come to Detroit.
Then the speaker pointed out that Jonah needed Nineveh just as much as Nineveh needed Jonah. He wanted us to think about that as we worked at our ministry sites. He asked us if we believe we can start a revival? Why not? What is stopping us?
The last thing that he mentioned was that the bible says God called Nineveh a "great city." So while our modern day Nineveh's might not be great in our eyes, they are in God's. Think about it.
After his message, we broke for Wayne State University. It was evangelism time!!!! When we first got there, we met with the Metro team and talked about the university's student body. I paired up with Justin Watkins and we headed out to eat lunch and spread God's message of LOVE!
After eating lunch at Subway, we headed into the Student Center and actually sat down with a group of elementary school students that were there on a 'field trip.' We talked through Solarium with one of the kids, while others watched on. The kids really seemed to enjoy it, they would pick out answers for themselves/each other as the pictures came into view. After about 20 minutes "playing our game" (as they put it), we left those kids to themselves and moved to another table. Hopefully some seeds were planted, and God has used that "game" in other areas of their lives.
The second table we sat at also sat three Muslim girls. The girls all seemed to be friends and they were receptive to Solarium as well. A little bit into Solarium we explained to them why we were there... and they were still extrememly receptive to us. For the next two hours, I learned about the Islam faith while also sharing (and listening to Justin share) about our faith. I won't share what I learned here because I don't believe it to be true but feel free to ask me about it in person.
When both groups (the girls and Justin/I) needed to move on, we thanked them for their time and they thanked us for our conversation, solarium, and just the fact that we would talk to them about Christianity as opposed to arguing or "throwing it in [their] faces." It was encouraging to hear that we had been loving while sharing.
I wanted to continue evangelical ministry, but we had to meet back up with the team before heading to our ministry sites.
When the team was back together we heard some amazing stories. Two guys from our team witnessed two Wayne State University students come to Christ. Praise the Lord! How awesome is that??? There were other encouraging stories as well... I just don't remember the specifics. After that meeting, Justin and I prayed for the girls (and elementary students) we shared with.
Ministry Site Team
Time for inner city ministry! Today I went to Central Detroit Christian. We helped with a children's program that takes in kids after school and provides them with a meal and extra skills classes, or tutoring help. We played with the kids for a while before dinner and then helped serve. After dinner, we cleaned up the tables and swept the floors while the other staff went off to teach classes. Sadly, we didn't get to help in any of the classes because we had to leave in time to make it to the Pistons' game.
I actually think Chris beat me... we have a video too!
Playing knock-out with the kids... yeah, I played, I was just already out!
However, it wasn't THAT sad, because the Pistons' game was awesome!!!! I truthfully don't know that much about basketball, but that doesn't change the fact that I got to watch it live. There is something exhilarating about being AT a game! Anyway, the facts you should know about the game... Pistons won, 100-95 (don't ask me who they were playing... if you really want to know, look up the date). Also, we got a VIP welcome on the big screen during half time.
Pistons game...
To answer my question... looks like they were playing the Nuggets.
Our VIP welcome!!!
Since I don't like night driving or extreme traffic... I asked Andrew to drive us back to CCF. We stopped at Wendy's for more dinner (since we didn't get much at CDC and didn't have time to stop) and made it back to CCF by 12:30am. There was some shaggin' in the lounge for a little while, but I made it in to bed by 1:30am (which was in the lounge on a couch because my room was sooooo cold!!!!)
Andrew and I at the game...
-Britt
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