Who Is Someone You Can Talk With About Christ This Year?

Robert S, a sophomore at Virgina Tech, visited a Buddhist temple on his way to class and struck up a conversation with a monk there. On his second visit he brought a 4 Spiritual Laws booklet in Khmer and asked one monk to read it aloud. It was the first time these citizens of the United States have ever heard the truth ~ an other-culture relationship!

KC B. has learned enough kreyol in her 6 months in Haiti to talk about Jesus with some of the kids beyond just saying that Jesus loves them ~ a loving relationship!

Mary D, a public middle school teacher, spends much extra time counseling and praying with staff at her workplace. She does it because she wants to be a Christian working with excellence in a non-Christian atmosphere ~ a winsome witness relationship!

Steve A. converses with Iranians in the Walmart check-out line. He follows up with an invitation to an event with his family. Discussing his faith is an important piece of conversation, because Middle Easterners think that if a person does not talk about his beliefs then the faith journey is unimportant to his life ~ an intentional relationship!

Katie in England welcomes the opportunity to be living with girls who are not believers. She deems them a window into the country's society, which is so needy spiritually. She writes, "The spiritual needs in the West are not really that different from those in the Middle East" ~ a living-it-out relationship!

Brian R. at Morgan State is building relationships with students in order to be aware of specific issues that concern them, making his message of life with Christ relevant ~ an understanding relationship! Grace in China has agreed to disciple a believing neighbor. This neighbor pointed out to her that she can see through him better than other foreigners because she is not afraid to be firm with him about changes he needs to make ~ an accountability relationship!

Steve and Amanda T., dorm parents for 15 middle school girls at a boarding school in Kenya, are experiencing the "normal" push against the requirements of dorm life. Much counseling and disciplining, involving patience and unconditional love, have spawned in-depth spiritual searching on the part of the girls involved ~ an invested relationship!