“Who was Jesus and what did he do? Do you believe Jesus is God?!” were the first words I was drilled with after approaching two students at our first service of the quarter last month on the UCLA campus. I had met a Christian Freshman named Daniel the week prior and had been corresponding back and forth with him via text for a few days before he came out and attended our first service of the school year. I didn’t realize it at the time, but the person drilling me with the questions was Daniel’s roommate.

Evidently Daniel had brought his roommate Jonas with him to service. Jonas, a Ph.D student visiting from France, was new to UCLA and here doing research. I was surprised to meet a French student who was seemingly as on fire for God as I was. Thankfully, I answered all his questions correctly. Being new to UCLA, he wanted to make sure that he was attending a service whose teachings lined up with the Word of God. It turns out that he attends an Assemblies of God church back in France, and because we operate as an interdenominational ministry on the campus, he had no clue Chi Alpha was affiliated through them. Ever since I first met him that night, Jonas has been to every service and major event we have hosted. He even showed up to our prayer meeting last night!

We literally started the school year sprinting just last month (UCLA is on the quarter system so they didn’t even start classes until the end of September). It is exciting to be involved in a ministry that is gaining ground and momentum. We had over 500 contact cards filled out during our promotions week building up to our first service. Ninety Three people packed into our first service of the school year on Tuesday, September 27th, making it our largest service ever for this ministry at UCLA.

Next Monday and Tuesday on October 24th and 25th is our two day revival service with guest speaker Sean Smith, author of Prophetic Evangelism. He will be leading both services as well as help with our Bagel outreach on Monday morning. Sean in an incredibly anointed man of God who operates heavily in the gifts of the Spirit and I am really excited to see how God moves through him next week. When Sean came and did a similar service last year, students got miraculous healed in our service (including a student I even had invited). I’m expecting God to do even greater things this time so please keep us in your prayers.