Since I was a student in college, I’ve developed a love for college ministry. I was in a leadership position at a Christian university where I would talk with visiting high school students and incoming freshmen. I loved every minute building relationships with those students.
A year after I graduated, I was given the opportunity to go to Tübingen, Germany and work with a university ministry for 2 months. For the ministry, I served the long-term missionaries helping wherever needed. Most of the time I was cooking, cleaning, decorating, or just hanging out with the students. My time there was difficult because college ministry is hard. It takes a lot of time for relationships to form and a bond to be made. Mainly it was hard because I didn’t see the fruit. I was a planter. I wasn’t there to harvest, but to be a worker. I didn’t realize that until I was home for a couple months.
Fast forward to a little over a week ago, Team Breakthrough found out we had college ministry.
Later that night as a squad we all set out on a prayer walk to our respected ministry locations. Breakthrough went to the college and prayed. We prayed over the school, the students, the teachers, the administration, etc. We prayed life over them. We prayed they would know their worth in the Lord’s eyes.
Remember, college ministry is hard.
As we regrouped, my team realized we were all hearing the same words from God. I kept hearing there is no way to fail, absolutely no way to fail. We are doing ministry exactly as the Lord wants and that is good. Other teammates heard the Lord saying we are the planters. We have come to plant seeds that will flourish for others to harvest.
For our first day of ministry, we set out walking to the school. We walked around the grounds, got kicked off a basketball court for playing frisbee, and we tried to talk to a couple students. Here’s another difficult aspect, their English is limited and our Thai is even more limited! We left a bit discouraged, but determined. We went back after school let out for the day and a few teammates went to the administration asking to speak to an English teacher.
Let’s just say, by the next day our team was teaching English at the college.
God’s grace is so BIG.
In a matter of 2 days He took 7 unqualified English speakers and turned us into teachers.
He’s molding us to look at ministry in different ways.
He’s showing us that ministry is all around us.
He’s telling us that failure isn’t possible in His eyes.
He’s wanting us to choose His will for our race.
He’s asking us to say yes.
This is month 1 and it’s hard, but there is no failure.
(Some of our students playing a sentence game today.)
