Answered Prayers

During the past few months several of you asked for names of people to pray for in our ministry and we told you stories about some of them in our newsletter. We're happy to tell you that God has already been answering some of those prayers!

Shirley was just baptized at the end of last semester. We talked about her at Clear Creek and asked for special prayers as she deals with resistance from her parents. Well, during the summer Shirley and her parents had lots of conversations about her faith (which was a great chance for her to share and grow her faith!), but her parents kept up the pressure. In the end, they agreed that she can do whatever she wants to at school, but she can't "bring her faith home". That's obviously not the ideal long-term solution, but it's a great start and shows a thawing of their hearts. Also, Shirley is building closer relationships with some of the other Christians that we meet with. She went to the Salt & Light student group last Sunday and loved it. Then this last Thursday, she caught a bike ride to our weekly meeting with a sister from another group. We're thankful to see her growing!

We have also mentioned the girl Sunday many times in the past. Sunday has lots of emotional and interpersonal issues, but she's pretty open to Jesus and his story. We've prayed a lot for her and tried to love her, but we were never too sure of how things were going. Then just this last week Sunday told Lisa that she had gone to a different local Christian group with one of her classmates who is a Christian. We were super happy and surprised to hear the news! Even more, we were thankful to see God drawing Sunday to himself without us being the ones pushing her or telling her to go to meetings. It's great to see people respond positively when we encourage them to do something, but it's even better to see God work in people's hearts totally independently of our work!

Join us in thanking God for these answered prayers and thank you all for praying!