Kazakhstan

At the beginning of February, we had an American who currently does missions in Kazakhstan come and speak. He came in town to speak at a missions conference in San Diego, but he also spoke at our weekly service. I had the honor of having him stay at my house for a few days while he was in town. He arrived on Monday, did the Tuesday night service, then left to go back to Kazakhstan on Wednesday at 5:00 am! He had some incredible stories of what God was doing through him, and what it was like over there, defiantly the read deal! He also provided a training for the people involved with leadership here with UCLA after our prayer meeting, saying some really powerful things. A few nuggets include “with great blessing comes great responsibility” and “if you dare to do the ridiculous, God will do the impossible.” Think about those quotes, especially the first one and how you can apply it do your life. We live in the most blessed country in the world where even the poorest of the poor are rich compared to some other countries.

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Chinese New Year

A few weeks ago we had the largest event of the year, that being our Chinese New Year Celebration. I believe we had over 50 international students alone show up, not to mention the traditional students and other people involved with our ministry. The international Chinese students helped cook food for the event, and we also had karaoke in English/Chinese, as well as some traditional Chinese games. One of the international students from China that came to the event has started coming to our services and has been playing Ultimate Frisbee with us. When I spoke with him last week, he said that he searched online about Christianity before he came to our service because he had never heard anything about it. He ended up accepting Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior that week, and I was able to meet with him the next day and help do some basic discipleship.

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Homeless Outreach

On Saturday, UC Hope, the LA outreach division of Chi Alpha, met up to make PBJ and turkey and cheese sandwiches to give to the homeless. We walked around Westwood, the town UCLA is located in, and handed out the sandwiches along with fruit and carrot cake out. We where also able to minister to some of the homeless and hand out Bibles. They where very appreciative and it seemed that many of them just wanted to have a conversation, because many people wont even look at them as they walk by.

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Tonight we have a prayer service, tomorrow we are going to have a have free food and fellowship after the service, and next week, we are going to have a powerful guest speaker fly in from Sacramento to speak.