Last Tuesday evening we began our 6 week leadership, discipleship and evangelism training called Joshua Team. We have been pleasantly surprised by all of the students interested in participating and our first night we had around 20 students and last night 25! We also have 3 students who weren't able to come on Tuesday nights but are doing it one on one with a staff member. It's been great so far and we are excited to see what God does through this team of students.
One of the assignments we have given these students is to read a portion of the Jesus Storybook Bible (pictured above) each day as a daily devotion. It is a great children's Bible that gives a big picture view of the Bible as a whole and at the end of each story in the Old Testament the author mentions something about the One who is yet to come. As it says in the introduction, "Every story whispers His name". We weren't quite sure how the students would respond to us having them read a children's Bible (would they think it too cheesy or beneath them?) but they are absolutely LOVING it!
This Bible has been floating around the fraternities and sororities here and really creating opportunities for discussion. One student was able to share the gospel with his roommate after his roommate picked up the bible and was asking questions. Another girl left her room for a while and came back and her roommate had read 100 pages and was asking lots of really great questions about God. We have been surprised and excited to see the ways God is working unexpectedly! We can only get excited thinking about what will happen in the next couple of weeks.
