What are we all about?

We have now been on campus for seven weeks!  Time doesn't feel like it's gone fast but the fact that I've been in Fiji for three and half months is crazy to me.  Now that we've been here for an extended period of time, we're starting to realize how we fit into the movement here at the University of the South Pacific.

Campus Crusade for Christ is a movement of evangelism and discipleship at its core.  These are skills that are essential for every believer to have if they want to multiply their lives.  Our team is continually evaluating where we're at and where we want to be.  It has become clear to us that our legacy in Fiji is going to be discipleship.  Our key student leaders are able to share their faith but they don't know what discipleship looks like in practice.  We want to continue to refine their skills in evangelism as we teach them the foundations of discipleship.

This week is Midsemester Break at USP.  That means that most students have free time.  On Monday, we put on an Evangelism and Discipleship Training Seminar.  We invited any students involved in our movement to come learn how to multiply their lives.  We had about twenty-five students turn out!

In the morning, Dave and I taught the basics of discipleship:  What?  Why?  Who?  When?  Where?  How?  We got a lot of positive feedback from students.  We weren't very surprised when they told us they had never heard a lot of what we said.  We're praying that these students catch the vision for discipleship and begin to pour their lives into other students!  

The Bible in one hand, Rugby ball in the other

After the Discipleship Seminar and lunch, we broke out into groups for three different sessions:  how to share your faith, how to lead someone through the basics of the Christian faith, and how to lead a Bible Study.  Our team split into three groups to teach students at different levels.  Everything we taught was very practical so that students could easily turn around and apply it to their lives.

We're excited to get to teach and train these students to have a personal ministry of their own.  We're praying that God would give these students a heart for evangelism and discipleship.  We hope that our legacy here in Fiji would be to create multiplying disciples.  Please pray for our movement as we try to establish a mentality of discipleship!