Day 5 @ Shalu

Today was the last day of the English camp at Shalu High School. We have been debating whether we should opening share the gospel on the last day. It is a very difficult situation because the reason why we were able to get into the school was because we were teaching English. On the other, our mission here is to somehow share the love of God with the students we teach.

While we were doing the morning devotion, we happened to be reading a passage in Acts where Paul was evangelizing in Athens. Acts 18:9-10 says, "One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: 'Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in the city.'" This passage was a great encouragement to the team.

Knowing that we couldn't opening preach, Charley came up with an idea to open a workshop discussing God and spirits (神鬼論). It was a huge hit. Out of the 4 workshops we opened this afternoon, that class was the most popular. Not only that, Charley also gave a great testimony at the end of the large group session and many expressed interest to be contacted by the church if there are other church events in the future. The bonus was that Charley was able to lead a student to pray the salvation prayer after the camp was over. It was simply awesome!!!



It was sad to say good-bye to this group of students. I think this is the toughest part of short term mission. You know it is not possible for us to stay with them forever, yet after a week of spending time together, you already started developing relationships with the students. To continue on with the friendships, we started a Facebook group page so the students can join and continue to communicate with us.

Since we don't have camp tomorrow afternoon, we can finally sleep in a little in the morning and perhaps go out and walk around for a little bit. We still have our night time junior high camp. Two more days then we will conclude our mission trip.

Please continue to pray for us as we close it up and travel to our separate destination.