The year 2011 started with many meetings and activities even though the students have exams and are less available to meet and have fellowship together. I am very glad that this month God reconnected me with a student whom I met during the outreach we did in October while we were giving out tracks in the student dorms. Although at that time we exchanged email addresses, we didn’t succeed in keeping up with each other. This month we were given the opportunity to have a free evaluation of our Business-DNA-Profile and I invited some non-Christians that I thought might be interested as a means to reconnect them with our community.  She was very glad to hear about this opportunity and we reconnected. She is very open to talk about spiritual matters as she reads the Bible, loves Jesus Christ, and understands salvation is by faith and not works. She is very nice and I like her very much. She wants to come to the ski camp in February and I pray that she will come. Please pray for her salvation.

Another opportunity to share the Gospel was through meeting once a week with a young lady who recently started to come to our church. She has come faithfully since November. We get along very well and she has a lovely personality. We can talk for hours about different things. She wants to read the Bible but she says she doesn’t understand much when she reads on her own. When we meet and read the Bible, she starts to understand. Please pray for her understanding of the Gospel.

We also have been working and planning for the evangelistic ski camp that we will have during February 14-19. We put up posters and gave out fliers about the camp in the faciilties and invited our colleagues. We pray that many non-Christians will register for the camp. Besides skiing activities we will have four evangelistic messages and four Bible studies on various aspects of the Gospel. We desire very much that the non-Christian students will hear, understand and receive the Gospel for the salvation of their souls. We want to witness to them by our lives and a godly community filled with genuine faith, hope and love that come from the Holy Spirit. We want to tell them that their souls are everlasting and responsible to their holy and just Creator who sent His Son as a propitiation for their souls. We want to urge them to repent of their sins and turn to God, believing that only in Jesus Christ there is forgiveness for their sins. We have had a fasting and prayer chain for the souls of the non-Christians who come to the camp. We want to ask you to pray together with us.

This month I also visited some friends that I cannot see during the busy schedule of the semester. It’s wonderful to have sweet fellowship with families in the Lord! I also allocated some time for the accounting and other administrative tasks of the student ministry so that during the semester I am able to be fully engaged with the students.

One evening I had the wonderful privilege to invite to my home a young lady who was in India for a short-term mission trip. She told us for more than four hours about the wonders God did through her and her team in India two months ago. One experience is quite remarkable! One day she got very sick and was very sad because she couldn’t join the team who went for a two-day trip. But God had a special mission for her. The next day she visited a school for Hindu and Muslim children in the area and she got to talk to the principal of the school. They had a very good discussion about his wonderful country and other different things. She is an English teacher in Romania so at the end of their time she asked him if she could talk to the children about her faith and he granted her permission.