Spring Break!
Every year Spring Break is a great opportunity for students in our movement to get an opportunity to learn how to share their faith through initiative evangelism. Thank you for praying for our students to get full financial support to be able to go to their locations this year! Including staff we sent 18 to Valencia, Venezuela; 8 to Nantes, France; and 72 to Panama City Beach, Florida!
Today we’re halfway through our stay here at Big Break in Panama City Beach and we’ve seen a LOT happen! We have a group of 72 students here, but we’ve joined with Campus Crusade for Christ movements from across the country for a total of over 850 students and staff here sharing the Gospel!
Praises:
1) About 100 students decided to spend their Spring Break sharing the Gospel, growing in faith, and expanding their heart for the lost. That’s worth celebrating!
2) We have all gotten to our destinations safely!
3) So far we’ve had great weather except for Wednesday, and the forecast looks a little chilly, but we should have clear skies and plenty of people to share with out on the beach, around the clubs, and along the streets.
4) On Tuesday night a number of Ohio State students felt disappointed by negative reactions to sharing the Gospel on the beach that day and disappointed that they hadn’t seen anyone accept Christ so they decided to hold a late night time of praise and worship singing on the deck of our hotel. They started at 11PM and continued singing until 1:30AM. As they sang, passersby stopped to listen or to sing as well. What started as a group of 10 or so grew to probably 40. At the end of the night 2 students from Minnesota walked up to one of our students to share what we hadn’t seen happening on the fringe of the crowd. Apparently a man was walking by who was not with our group and stopped. They saw him and didn’t recognize him so they started talking to him. He told them that he had been walking up to his room just then to kill himself. He had a knife set out and was making his way back to his room, but our singing caught his ear so he stopped. By the end of their conversation, he thanked them and told them they had saved his life that night. Praise God!
Prayer Requests:
1) Please pray for continued safety of our students at all of our Spring Break locations, but especially here at Panama City Beach!
2) Please pray for the 18 year old girl who was raped yesterday by a security guard in her hotel, the Sandpiper, and then thrown off a sixth floor balcony. We’ve heard that her injuries are serious, but not life threatening. Please pray for her physical healing as well as that someone might have an opportunity to minister to her specifically in her current situation.
3) I don’t have a name, but a security guard informed me yesterday that a 14 year old girl on vacation here with her family has been missing for 24 hours now and has been officially reported as kidnapped from our resort, the Edgewater. Please pray for her safe return.
4) Please pray that students here and abroad will continue to share their faith boldly in what remains of our week here and that we will see lives changed!
5) Please pray for our safe return home!
