We’re four weeks into Summer Project, and that means we’ve only got one more week until staff leaves. The staff leaves next Tuesday (July 5) for the summer to return home and continue raising support for the upcoming year. They’ve appointed us to have positions here among the students. I will be my Action Group (Bible Study) leader in place of Steven Mandeville who will be returning back to Oklahoma to finish up support. I’m really excited to lead Action Group, and I know God will lead me every step of the way. This past Saturday was an interesting day. Students from the Silicon Valley Summer Project came to Santa Cruz for the day to help us with outreach. One guy named Hussein from Saudi Arabia (I think that was his name/where he was originally from) gave his testimony. He was from Eastern Kentucky University originally but now is at UNC Charlotte I think. He became a Christian after going to Crusade one night and it wasn’t the message that struck him, but rather the worship songs. He called home (Saudi Arabia) to tell his family that he had converted from Islam to Christianity, and he said his mom and sisters didn’t talk to him for the next 2 weeks. He said it was a very rough time and I could only imagine. God really worked through him, and he truly has a heart for the Lord.
That night, we turned the Peter Pan into an outdoor coffee shop and invited our coworkers and friends here from Santa Cruz to get to sit down with them and have spiritual conversations. Some of us also went downtown to do solarium cards or perspective cards for outreach. One of my friends from NC State Hunter Young and I paired up and went downtown to share with people. We ran into one couple and did the perspective cards with them. We got into a spiritual conversation with them, and found out they were actually believers. It was awesome to find other believers in a dark city like Santa Cruz. They actually asked if they could pray for us, and that was really cool. Meanwhile back at the Coffee House Outreach, one girl accepted Christ and asked if she could have a KGP (Knowing God Personally) booklet and took off to go share with her friend! It was amazing to see God working throughout the night.
Yesterday, we went to the redwoods! I couldn’t believe how big the redwoods were. We were literally looking straight up the whole time. They were way bigger than I expected them to be. There was one tree we went inside and took pictures in it. The record for the most people inside this tree was 74 eleven year olds and one adult, if that gives you an idea of how big the inside of it was. I was literally in a tree. Every time I tried to take a picture on my phone it didn’t do it justice. I actually forgot my camera that day (whoops!) but luckily there were plenty of people with cameras so I’m sure I’ll be tagged in some on Facebook. It was amazing to see how God’s creation shouts his existence. The trees twisted as they went up, looking like licorice or candy canes. Just describing them here doesn’t explain hardly anything. You’d have to see them for yourself. There was also a section of a redwood that fell in 1934 hanging up at the beginning of the trail. It was about 2000 years old! It had major events with arrows on it pointing to how big the tree was when the event happened. It had the birth of Jesus on it! It also had empires, declaration of independence, civil war, and other events labeled on it. It was awesome to see and I took a picture of it from a distance on my phone so I will upload it to Facebook.
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