Footy with the Kiwis

This past week was the first week our CCP team started laboring on campus. We have met many students through sporting events, hang outs, and going to campus events. The guys on our team decided to play flag football every Friday and eat dinner at our place afterwards. Many of the people we met we invited to play flag football. The kiwi guys were really excited to have a chance to play some American football, since rugby is their main sport. Many of them watch it, and know how to play, but it is not played that often. There were around 15 students who came out to play. It was funny seeing how excited they were to play and try using their football terminology. One student on the winning team said that when they won, he felt like they won the super bowl. This is a very significant event where we can develop momentum with the ministry and build deeper relationships. The students we have been meeting are starting to turn from acquaintances to friends. We are all thankful to God for giving us favor and being able to build relationships in such ways as playing American football.
Something we have started doing is grilling up free sausages to drunk people. We did this three times this past week. By doing this we are able to show them the love of Christ by serving them and it is also a great opportunity to meet people. This has been helpful in meeting a few students and meeting up with them later. It is cool to see there responses to the act of loving kindness. It really shows how the act of serving people physically is a great avenue to serving them spiritually as well. It doesn’t make sense to people what we are doing. When they ask why, it provides a great avenue to tell them the reason we do it is because of the transforming work He has done in our lives. When thinking how Christ came to serve and give His life as a ransom for many it is so easy to ask, “Why”? It has been transforming for us to see that when true Christian service happens, it leaves the world wondering “why?” and the answer is always Christ.

Please be in prayer for us as we start to develop relationships. Developing deep relationships with trust with a few select students is huge. We do not want to spread thin and make little impacts, but we want to go deep and make life long impacts in people’s lives. So please pray for some “key guys” that we can really start pouring our life into.

Nate Dog and K-Dog