Last week was Mission Week at my CU, I had originally planned to blog about it daily but I was that busy and that tired I was unable to do so. As a result I am going for a bit of a mass post about the events and will then follow it up with another post about what I got from the week.
It all started at 8am on Monday morning. We had the first prayer meeting of the week which was then followed up with the first session of First Contact. First contact was basically a way of engaging with the university. We went out armed with questionnaires (well I did all except Monday) which were aimed to open up a conversation and make people think about their beliefs. These sessions went on everyday based on a different campus each time, but all with the same purpose. On many occasions we were able to give the person we spoke to a book called the Life Gospel, which contained a small chunk of the bible in contemporary english. This was particulalry encouraging, particularly as two or three of the people I spoke to during the week had never had the opportunity to read the bible.
After First Contact we had a main event each night. On Tuesday we had a Pub Quiz in the SU Bar over at the Gloucester(Oxstalls) campus. This was a really good night, for many reasons. Not only did a large number of CU members turn up but also lots of people who are in halls at Oxstalls came as well. We later learnt that it was the busiest they have seen that particular SU Bar since the start of term, meaning that it was a large amount of people who got to hear our speaker, Michael Ots aka Motsy, talk about the Gospel. This kind of encouraging news spread across the whole week. On Wednesday at our Da Vinci Code showing 4 people took a free book about understanding while the Bible is relevant today, there were only 5 book to give away! Motsy also spoke after the film about some of the issues it raised and he had some people come upto him at the end to explain further why the film is so wrong.
Thursday night was probably the night which had the potential to make the most impact. We held an acoustic night in FCH SU Bar. The SU Bar on this campus is particularly busy on a Thursday night and so it meant a lot of people would be present to hear Motsy speak. Several tables around where I was sitting contained people listening to him and picking up and flicking throught the Life Gospels we had placed on each table.
The Friday night event, and the final event of the week, was held in conjunction with FNC. It gave us a relaxed environment, in which we could invite people along to here Motsy speak in greater detail about the Gospel. Unfortunately only 1 non-Christian was there to hear him speak, but he still spoke very well, as he did all week, and it was a nice relaxing end to the week.
Throughout the week we were also plugging our follow up course, which is called Life. It’s very similar to the alpha course in its aims and setup and many people throughout the week showed an interest in coming along. Hopefully they will attend and gain the chance to hear more about the Gospel. Overall it was a very good week, I learnt many things of which more news will follow. Please pray people continue to show an interest in the Life course and that those who took a copy of the Life Gospel will not just discard it but will read it.
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