Plowing Concrete with Rocker Haircuts

Some have said that ministry in New Zealand is like plowing concrete, and we have found this to be the case. But after many activities and events, our relationships have started paying dividends.

Starting early this week I heard a student named Mike Mufatta say, “I have never heard that part” as he pointed to a diagram that we drew for him to explain the gospel. Mike had heard that Jesus had died, but he had no idea what Jesus had died for. He spent anywhere from 30 secs to 1 minute after each question deliberating over the answer in complete silence, having never heard or thought about his sinfulness and God’s wrath.

Later that night we went to eat, get haircuts, and play basketball with what has come to be called “Team Duffy” which is just 6 guys from a college (dorm) called Unicol, one being named Ryan Duffman. We had planned to share the gospel at the Dinner table but we did not have the opportunity. We went from there to a session of hair cutting, where the Kiwis got to plan our Rocker Haircuts to make us fully Kiwi. Later while playing basketball, I asked Riz (a member of team Duffy) if he would be interested in getting together and talking more about Christianity. He said that him and Team Duffy had been talking about it ever since we shared some of the gospel with them the first time and then said, “We must not understand well, because we still can’t figure out why someone would just take all our messed up stuff.” My thought was, “I don’t either, but Jesus does.”

Earlier that same day, Nate Frantz met with a guy named Nick who has come out to do a few activities with us, but has mostly kept a small distance between us. Nate communicated the gospel clearly to him, only to find that he understood the gospel decently well already, having heard it from another ministry, but couldn’t believe the Bible was true. Nate began to blow his mind with facts about the scriptures and their reliability. Nick was surprised to say the least.

To the left (Riz, Zach, Nate, Kendall, Duffy, James, and Sam)

As you can tell, things have been livening up a little bit around here and we need your prayers. We want to trust God with our coming week that we will be able to have follow up conversations with Nick and Mike, while making the gospel completely clear to Team Duffy. Pray that they would be saved. (Team duffy = Duffy, James, Riz, Matt, Tom, Glenn). We are taking as many of them as possible to a retreat this coming Saturday. Pray for their attendance. Also, if you have a sec, blow up those pictures of our new Rocker haircuts that are COMPLETELY NORMAL HERE!

-Zach