York Mission Week

Well since ive got time now i thought that id update people with whats been going on in the silence of the last few weeks. So to make it easier i thought id go one step at a time and do York Mission week first
"Truth" week began on the 6th February in some ways with excitement but also trepedation as this would be my first mission week outside of Liverpool and also outside fo actually being a student. We had a Mission CU the saturday before where loads of people had been praying for the CU and after meeting the rest of the mission team on the sunday night (from uccf, york and st helens) i was encouraged that people were passionate about the gospel. Unfortunately the week was tough on that side as we found alot of opposition in the CU to people actually wanting to proclaim the gospel to their friends. It was very disheartening at points to the whole team and especially i guess to me and Paula (CUSW) (aka CU staffworker) as we realised just how bad the problem was at the moment. But although there were many problems during the week with that the events which we had organised before went really well. We had "hot potatoes" every day on various "what would jesus say to..." topics which where better and better attended eacg day. By friday there must have been around 40 non-christians present which was brilliant and many people who came were challenged by the gospel content in the talks. On Wednesday night we had a Jazz Cafe with a band called "vertigo" from leeds college of music coming to play. They are one of the best jazz bands ive heard in a while and they are all really talented guys. The evening even started with 30 odd rugby players in the venue dressed as women and taking it far too seriously for my liking. They eventually left and the event went again really well and Paul Hinton, our speaker for the week spoke powerfully on what is truth and freedom. On Saturday night we had the last event of the week on the saturday night with a more straight down the line evangelistic meeting with music from my york relay collegue Toria who has one of the most amazing voices. Other college events included dinner parties, Uber Dinner Parties and grill a christian events which again alot of good conversations were had.
During the days we did alot of cold contact evangelism and met with alot people across campus. I had some brilliant but really hard conversations with various people including one with a group of third year students which went over just about every topic imaginable.
Praise God though that a guy who had come to the hungry follow up course all of the last term and that i had had alot of good converstations with became a Christian on the saturday night. It was great to see as we'd been praying for him a long time and he just came to realise that he needed to make a commitment.

Please continue to pray for the students at York University CU that they would see that they need to tell their friends the gospel in order to truly love them!
Pray for the chinese guy who became a christian at the end of the week that he may continue to learn more about Christianity and have a desire to serve God more in his life