HOLA!
Sorry it's been a while since my last post. If you followed me last year you know I'm not all that great at posting on a weekly basis BUT I am trying much harder this time around :)
ANYWAYS. I have so much to update you all on! It has been quite the last week(s) since I posted last. I believe during my last post we were in the "Thirsting to Know Him" week. Well I will just say that the week was great and ended super well! It was the first full/normal week for students and I really feel like it's a pretty crucial one. Overall it was a great week and it all ended up going great!
This past week was "Killing the Giants" week! Killing the Giants (KtG) is such a huge and influential week for the summer project. That is the week that students really challenge themselves in evangelism. The tagline is "What would it look like to dedicate one week to sharing the Gospel?" WELL let me tell you that the students TOTALLY killed it! Every year as a project we each write down a person goal for the week. A number of conversations we want to trust God to provide. Stepping out in faith can be super scary so usually students pick numbers that are above and beyond anything they would be able to do on their own. As a project, after totaling all of the "goals" the final number of conversations was 1,017! Oh, and did I mention that this wasn't just normal conversation, this was conversation where a student got to present the Gospel to who they were sharing with! Totally crazy!!! It was so cool to see students really own this goal and not just see it as a number but really as people that truly mattered and that they wanted to share the Gospel with. At the end of the week they didn't hit the 1,017 mark BUT they did get to share the Gospel with over 800 people!!! And of those over 800 people more than 50 people prayed to receive Jesus as Lord and savior! :) I get so jacked even just thinking about it! God worked in really cool and big ways! (Oh, and it rained two days last week -- so just imagine if there hadn't been rain and they could have hit the beach those days too... CRAZY!) So that was KtG week and we ended with a dance party celebration and we destroyed the cardboard giant that the outreach team had created. Such a great night and such a great week.
MOVING ON: This week is "All for One" week and honestly last year this was my least favorite week of project haha. HOWEVER, being on the staff side I see how truly important this week is for bring the project together as a community and family. So now I am super excited to see what will happen and what God has in store. This week students will be given clues and will have no instruction from the staff :) If a student asks a question we just say "What one of you knows, all of you know". It's going to be great! Another thing that students had to do was turn of their cell phones (they were able to give an emergency number to parents, don't worry haha) and they also had to turn in computers, ipods, tablets, etc. Removing technology requires students to get creative with how they spread information and wake up in the morning and find rides to work, etc. I thought things would be a lot worse but people are taking it really great! Staff weren't required to give anything up HOWEVER after this blog post I will only be using my computer for work purposes. That means no facebook or spotify or anything else social media related. I will also only be using my phone to communicate via phone calls. For the next week it will be like I only have a calling plan and nothing else! Wish me luck haha. On that note I'm going to bring this blog to a close and wish you all an amazing week.
Much Love,
Setareh
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