Outreach

As some of you know, my sing team went to a school in Friedrichshafen, to a religion class. The teacher, however, is a christian and knows Heinz (a guy from our school) really well and asked us to come. While we were there we shared testimonies, Heinz shared a devotion with them, and then we didn't have much time for anything else. Today, however, we went back to the same school and the same class and was able to sing a couple songs and then answer some questions that they had had. They started out being simple questions like why are we at Bodenseehof, why did we pick a Bible school in Germany opposed to a Bible elsewhere and then they started asking deeper questions. It was then that we decided to split up into groups. There was one person from Bodenseehof per group of kids. I was talking to a couple of girls and their teacher translated for me. They understood most of what I said, but some of the bigger words the teacher needed to help with. It was really neat. Some of the questions they asked were, "Why does God let us suffer? If you lost everything, would you still love God or would you wonder why all this happened to you? What is the meaning of life? At what age do you have to be to experience God?" It was after that last question that I was able to share my testimony. It was amazing!!! They also wanted to know how we know God really died on the cross and wanted to know how I know all the other religions are right and what does "He is the way, the truth, and the life mean?" It was incredible to be in this kind of situation. I couldn't believe all the questions these kids had and how deep they were!!! The cool thing was, none of the questions were hard for me at all. We had prayed before and asked God to speak through us and give us the words to say to these kids and that He would prepare their hearts. As I was talking to them, I could totally see God at work in their hearts. I wasn't nervous at all and God spoke clearly through me, there were hardly any language barriers at all! It was totally cool.
If ya'll wouldn't mind keeping these kids in your prayers, that would be great! We will get to go back next semester. We also gave them all our email addresses and so hopefully they will keep in touch and ask more questions. If you could just pray that God would continue to give us the words to say to them. Thank ya'll for all your prayers. I really appreciate you praying for me, my team, and my school. God's really been at work and it's sooo awesome to see! :) More updates soon to come.

Love in Christ,
Jill<><