Wednesday, 22 April 2009

Houston, we have a problem...

It's busy, busy, busy here at the moment - the above picture was from last week's ICF camp (& is a "hongi" - a Maori greeting which is literally "the sharing of breath". It illustrates a small, but significant part of what we're trying to do in TSCF - to get students to relate to the culture around them. Tomorrow is the start of the CU camp & I'm one of the speakers (& still preparing!), so I must be brief.

This week, Mel, the CU President at Victoria University made 2 statements which both illustrate one of the big problems we face in our outreach here in New Zealand, but I fear is true around the world in the student scene and beyond. The 2 statements Mel made commenting on Victoria University students were:

"Nobody knows anyone in their lectures..."

"You don't really sit next to people in lectures."

Read them, ponder them & think about what they mean and their implications, remember the words of Romans 10 (below) & please pray for us.

"...how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?"

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