IMPACTING LIVES AND SOULS GETTING SAVED...

Jesus had a strategy while on Earth. He had to figure out what was the best and most effective way to get His message to the world and have it continue to be spread after He left. If we look at Jesus’ life, He focused the majority of His time with the Twelve Disciples. He knew that training up and inspiring twelve ‘on fire’ witnesses would have a longer lasting effect as they multiplied themselves than would 5,000 ‘lukewarm’ people. So, He trained, discipled, and sent them out.

A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of speaking to 14 students at the YWAM- San Francisco’s Discipleship Training School to inspire and equip them to do Evangelism. Their ages ranged from 18- 34. At the beginning of the week, most of the students definitely had their barriers to overcome when it came to sharing their faith. The barriers ranged from fear to lack of knowledge or even approach to methods. In all, I taught for 14 hours, equipping and inspiring these students to have a heart for the lost. It was a very fruitful week. We went on an outreach to Berkeley University Thursday afternoon and shared the gospel with the college students there. We definitely planted seeds that day, but on the Friday night, as the DTS went out to evangelize in their neighborhood, they saw two people give their lives to Christ! One man even commented, “ You guys saved my life tonight!” It was encouraging because throughout the whole school the students would go out and do evangelism in their neighborhood, but after this week of teaching, they went out with a renewed PASSION and saw two souls find their Saviour in Christ Jesus! In a city of 1 million people, two people is not that much, but in God’s eyes two of His children were reconciled to Him.

We also had one student in the DTS express interest in joining us in ministry here in our neighborhood next year- which is what we have been praying for!