One month anniversary! On October 18th I have offically been here one whole month! A lot has happend and changed in one month. I moved to a whole new world, found an apartment and moved in, have had many misunderstandings because of the language and cultural barriers, but I wouldn't take any of it back. It has been an experience I will never forget.
Last week we did all our planning for this year and this semester and this week we started doing ministry! Yesterday we went to the universities and did surveys. It was so exciting! I thought I was going to be scared out of my mind to do them, but I had a blasted being stretched. However, I must admit that God really spoiled my first survey experience. The first one Jen and I did together and the girl, Ingre, was really responsive. She wanted to know more about Agape and gave us her telephone number! After she left I jumped up and down and hit Jen telling her
"That was amazing!"Jen and I split up to do more surveys. I talked to a couple girls and they did the survey, but they were not very interested. The third girl I was talking to didn't speak very good english. I asked her the question, "What do you think are 5 struggles university students deal with in Kaunas?" As I asked her this question a guy passed by and stoped right behind me. I ignored him for a lit bit thinking he was a friend of hers. Finally I turned around to see what he wanted and in perfect english told me,
"These questions you ask are very interesting."He wanted to look at the survey and talk about it. The girl I was talking to lost intrest and left. This wanted to sit down and talk more so we went into the university and for 45min we talked all the way through the survey in depth. He would fill out the questions on the survey and then explain his answers. I would ask further questions as the Lord brought them to me. I don't think I stoped praying through the whole thing! I just wanted to be available to do what God wanted me to do and say. He spent last year in Japan studing abroad, you can imagine the spiritual concepts he picked up while over there. He had a Buddhist mentality towards spiritual things. He also enjoys philosophy so our converstation tended to sway in that direction. When he was done he looked at me and wanted to know what brought me to Lithuania and what were my goals while I was here. My thought was,
"Oh, I'm so glad you asked!!"So I went on to tell him about Agape and what I was here to do, to tell university students about Jesus Christ. He said, "So I have heard of this Christianity. Tell me more about it." WHAT!!!!! God just kept paving the way. We started to talk about the fundamentals of Christianity and the Gospel. As we got into it he looked at his watched and noticed that he was late for class. One of the questions on the survey was, "Would you like to talk more to some about the meaning of life?" He put maybe, but wrote down his number and wanted someone to call him and talk more about
"philosophy."I think I skipped all the way out of the university!!!!! My first day doing surverys and I got to see God work in a practical way through a survey! It was incredible! He gave me a boldnes that I never thought I had, to ask questions I thought I would never ask! Well, I guess you never say never to the Lord!
4 comments:
kellie b! how awesome! thanks for sharing this story of God's faithfulness with us ...
Incredible story Kellie! God is at work and it is wonderful to hear how he used you! Thinking of you often!
Carol
People often time sell surveys short. My experiences in the last year have really shown me they are such an effective foot in the door. A reason to start a conversation with someone you have no prior relationship with.
I went to Tiana's farewell party today. I am praying for your team and the Lords work in Lithuania!
Hi, Kellie.
This is the person you are talking about in your blog. May I ask you to modify the name beginning from the letter "M" into something more obscure? For example, change it to just the first letter of my name (M.),... Because it appears that there are not so many people who has this name in Lithuania!
-M...y
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