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A Rendezvous ... with Jesus!
By the Delhi Activated Home teens, India
Each year the Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT), India’s premier engineering
college, hosts Rendezvous,
an intercollegiate cultural festival that
is attended by thousands of students
from all over India. We have found
this festival to be an excellent opportunity
to introduce many of these
young people to Jesus. This year a
10-member team, mostly teenagers,
attended.
(From David, 24:) Our goal was
to share Jesus’ message of love and
hope with as many as possible. Our
method was to pair up in teams of
two and approach students starting
with the simple question of whether
or not they believed in God. Then
we would explain that Jesus is our
personal Friend and He wanted to be
theirs too—Someone to confide in,
talk with and pray to, and get answers
from. If they expressed an interest in
meeting this Friend, we would show
them from the Bible how simple it
is to make contact with God’s Spirit.
We found most to be very interested
and receptive to the message we
shared.—Even some of those who at
first said they didn’t believe in God.
On one occasion we were at the
hall where preliminary rounds for a
western music competition were in
progress. We thought how powerful
it would be to perform one of our
Family witnessing songs for the entire
audience! So we prayed and asked
the Lord if we should go ahead, and
after receiving His confirmation, we
presented our request to the event’s
organizer. “Impossible,” was his cold
response. “We are booked a year in advance. You’ll have to
wait till next year.”
We were not impressed with this impossibility, and prayed
for the Lord’s will to be done nonetheless. A few minutes
later, the Lord gave me a check to witness to a certain young
musician. When I was talking with him, another young man
approached and joined in our conversation. It turned out that
this second young man was the top man who was organizing
this event, and when he heard about our desire to perform,
he said, “I’ll give you a slot right away!” Talk about God’s perfect
timing! We got on stage and sang two songs.
When singing “Bend in the Road,” I noticed a girl in the
front row had tears streaming down her face as she listened.
After our performance, we witnessed to her, and she hopes
to attend Bible classes with us in the future. Another musician
duo invited Jesus into their hearts, and then called their
girlfriends over and asked if we could please tell them about
Jesus too. They all took copies of Activated.
(From Deepti, 17:) I offered Activated magazines to three
girls who told me, “Sorry. We don’t believe in God!” But
when I said that I’d like to introduce them to my best Friend,
Jesus, Who talks to me and helps me with my problems, they
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(L–R:) Deepti, Usha, Keren, and Nick, posing with a brandnew
keyboard. One of our friends was very inspired by their
witnessing testimonies and soon thereafter bought them a
keyboard to use in their Christmas shows.
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