~~Magnificent Life~~~

This week has been filled with excitement and sadness. Excitement, because we went through our topic of Magnificent Life and what that even looks like to have a God centered Life. Sadness, because all of our Staff and Staff families left yesterday. Its up to us students to run the rest of project by taking on their roles as leaders. 

Monday night our Project director talked with us about what our Kingdom Vision is how we will individually achieve that in our lives. I personally said that my vision is to see larger and more ministries on college campus', numerous bible studies of all levels taking place, weekly evangelism being done, and college students making a decision to follow Christ. We talked about how we are gifted to achieve this vision and how it can be done. Of course God is HOW it will be done but we also talked about who can we lean on back at school, who will hold us accountable, and how we can be equipped to do small groups, bible studies, and discipleship. Over the past few weeks God has given me a huge desire to disciple girls back at my campus. I am literally praying for the girls that I will talk to when I return to ECU and I do not even know who they are yet. Please keep my vision and others in your prayers as we seek to live for God's kingdom. 

How to live a Magnificent Life for Christ~~

-Philippians 4:10-13-- Being content and thankful to God for what you have 

-Be in the Word daily 

-Live with integrity

-and never think that ________ might not happen to you..cause it can.

   For example, do not look at someone who has fallen away from God and say "wow look at ____. I can't believe he/she is living like that after all God has done for him/her. I would never do that..."  Do not think in this way because we Do Not choose God, He chose us ..

Psalm 116 <3

**Helen**

A lot has happened with Helen in the past couple weeks. I have met with her a couple of times and talked about numerous topic from cultural differences to what being a Christian actually means. 

I have an amazing story to tell if your willing to read, but bear with me.... I have found out through Helen that there is a guy named Peter who is from China and reaches out to college students that come to the U.S from China. This is who Helen contacted when she arrived in the U.S. This man is 50-60 years old and gives his life to these students. He picks them up from the airport, gives them a place to stay if they need it, food, and makes sure they are settled into their college to start classes. Not only does he just serve these students but he also places the Gospel in their lives. He runs a ministry that holds fellowship on Thursday nights for internationals and Friday nights for Chinese students. When Helen told me she found this ministry to go to recently I was worried. I immediately thought she was going to a colt as there are many on the campus' around Chicago. I, prayerfully, said I would join her one Friday night to see what she was getting herself into. When I went I was taken by surprise. Me, Logan, and Sarah (Sarah is a girl who has been studying the Bible with Helen that I did not even know about, AMAZING) were the only non-Chinese people there and we stuck out like a sore thumb. It was obviously in a Chinese community and a lot of the older men and women could not even speak English. There was no AC in the building and we sat in our sweat for a few hours surrounded by Chinese people. Long story short, we ate, sang songs (in Chinese), and listened to a man's AMAZING testimony. Everything was in their language so a girl sat near us and translated the whole thing. This man went to the #2 college in China, then Notre Dame in the U.S, and had fought God's existence his whole life until one day a professor asked him if he could prove God was Not real. He tried to do this for about a year or more until he gave up and prayed to a God he did not want to believe in. God whispered to him and said, "Yes , I am God." He lives for a God that is more real to him than ever now. 

I believe with all of my heart that God has brought Helen, who had never heard the Gospel before, to this amazing Christian Community in Chicago. I thank God for Sarah as she will continue studying the Bible with Helen and her roommate, Ester, even after I leave.  

--I hope everyone had a wonderful and safe 4th of July !! 

Thank you so much for supporting me prayerfully and thoughtfully 

Love, Danielle