A Fraternity Student's Changed life!
Hosting big outreaches on campus are a lot of work. At UCSD, the "No Secrets" outreach was off to a rocky start. Many of the staff, including myself (BJ), were off-campus fundraising, we had gotten a late start planning such a major outreach, and the majority of the work rested on students and their initiative. We were worried about the outcome of the outreach.
God was not worried, however. He had great plans for reaching out to students all over UCSD's campus and inviting them into a life of freedom. Here is one of our favorite stories from the week.
On Wednesday night, a crew of InterVarsity students camped out at the No Secrets Tent at UCSD. They broke into spontaneous worship and prayer around 3am as two intoxicated fraternity guys approached the tent. They came into the tent, and one of the guys immediately sat down and started crying, as the group continued to worship, this guy started to pray and ask for God's forgiveness for the deep sin and darkness he found himself in. He asked that God bring him home again.
Our student leaders began to pray with him and process what was happening for him, and he began to share about how he had been a Christian in high school, but had joined a fraternity and turned away from God into a life of partying. Later, he explained that he and his friend were originally planning on coming to the tent to vandalize it and mock the worshipers, but w hen he came into the tent (in his own words) he was "hit by a warmth that was unexplainable, and all of a sudden, his own sin and brokenness became clear." He later asked to stay with the worshipers because "it felt so safe". Praise God for this Saul- like moment, where God interrupted satan's plans for evil and redeemed it for good.
Overall, the outreach was a huge success, with thousands of students sharing their secrets and being introduced to a God who knows their deepest secrets, and offers then a life of freedom.
Click here to visit our UCSD No Secrets Website
Watch a video of all the secrets UCSD students carry
Hosting big outreaches on campus are a lot of work. At UCSD, the "No Secrets" outreach was off to a rocky start. Many of the staff, including myself (BJ), were off-campus fundraising, we had gotten a late start planning such a major outreach, and the majority of the work rested on students and their initiative. We were worried about the outcome of the outreach.
God was not worried, however. He had great plans for reaching out to students all over UCSD's campus and inviting them into a life of freedom. Here is one of our favorite stories from the week.
On Wednesday night, a crew of InterVarsity students camped out at the No Secrets Tent at UCSD. They broke into spontaneous worship and prayer around 3am as two intoxicated fraternity guys approached the tent. They came into the tent, and one of the guys immediately sat down and started crying, as the group continued to worship, this guy started to pray and ask for God's forgiveness for the deep sin and darkness he found himself in. He asked that God bring him home again.
Our student leaders began to pray with him and process what was happening for him, and he began to share about how he had been a Christian in high school, but had joined a fraternity and turned away from God into a life of partying. Later, he explained that he and his friend were originally planning on coming to the tent to vandalize it and mock the worshipers, but w hen he came into the tent (in his own words) he was "hit by a warmth that was unexplainable, and all of a sudden, his own sin and brokenness became clear." He later asked to stay with the worshipers because "it felt so safe". Praise God for this Saul- like moment, where God interrupted satan's plans for evil and redeemed it for good.
Overall, the outreach was a huge success, with thousands of students sharing their secrets and being introduced to a God who knows their deepest secrets, and offers then a life of freedom.
Click here to visit our UCSD No Secrets Website
Watch a video of all the secrets UCSD students carry
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