because He Lives!

While my dear English students cannot understand WHY Easter doesn't mean "More East" if "smaller" means "more small" and "taller" means "more tall", they DO understand full well that Easter means everything to Christians. Before coming to Haiti I had never experienced a culture whose Christians put so much emphasis on evangelizing during Easter.

So, it seems quite fitting that the campus would be buzzing of evangelical ideas and projects for our upcoming 2-week Easter Break. I shared with you a story last year of a 4th year student who did nothing BUT evangelize the whole two weeks, carrying "reports" with him and recording every person he sat down with and shared Jesus, noting their names, locations, and responses. He spoke to almost 500 people about Jesus that "vacation" and brought 123 men, woman and children to the Lord!
After hearing his testimonies of this "project", I have often thought about how very practical his approach was. Every morning he went out, and every person he saw, he asked to sit with. And every person he sat and talked with, he told about Jesus. And every person he told all about Jesus and His coming to the world, death and resurrection, he invited to become a Christian. And more than a fifth of the people he spoke to, he recorded as "genuine, life-transforming conversions."
I began praying about this a few weeks ago, watching as my class of 10 men and 1 woman were continually asking for prayer for unconverted family members, friends, and neighbors...over and over and over. Finally, one day two weeks ago, I asked each of them: "Your parents. Are they Christians? Your sisters, your brothers?" For these 11 students, there were probably 60-70 lost immediate family members. As the last student finished his list of unconverted loved ones, the room fell silent, everyone heavily aware of this devastating revelation. We began to pray about what to do, and a few days later made a list of loved ones, family members, and neighbors the Lord was putting on our hearts.

"One problem," a student shared, "Is that when I tell some one about Jesus, whether they are converted or not, they may have NO Christian friends and NO way to hear MORE."

So, Matt and I made a commitment...if my 11 students would "go out into all the world" over vacation and talk to the people the Lord had put on their hearts, even those who had refused Christ 100 times, or who were living lives full of Satan and darkness, then we would do whatever it took to send them out with God's Word. As I am praying, I am realizing that this simple project could have MAJOR impact on the kingdom...Haiti and the world are hungry for the Lord and for His Word, and this Easter, we're committed alongside of my 11 students to give it to them. Matt brought home the first two boxes of Bibles today...

Please be praying about this fervently with us! Tomorrow I'll tell you what Matt and his class have come up with!