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Our first full week on campus culminated today with an outreach.  This week we handed out 1500 invitations to a meeting about "Youth and Sexuality."  One of our staff, Tom Dorsch, spoke on the subject in French to a group of about 60 students.  It was a great end to a first week on campus.

We're learning that finding English speakers on campus is far more difficult than we anticipated, so we've had to get creative.  The invitations were a very natural conversation starter, and when we met English speakers (anglophones) we asked them if we could talk to them about their faith.

A surprising number of students say yes to this question.  On Tuesday Sarah and I were with one of the students when we met two anglophone students named Elvis and Valentine.  I asked them if I could show the the "Would You Like to Know God Personally" booklet, and they said they were free.

One of the things we've learned is that Africans are very quick to accommodate others, especially westerners, so it's common for them to agree with a gospel conversation to be agreeable, but it can be tricky to discern where their heart truly is in these conversations.  As I shared, I asked them questions, and they clearly were tracking with what I was saying.  When we reached the end of the booklet, they were both very clear that Christ was not in their lives, and they both said that they would like to have Christ in their lives.

When I asked them if they would like to pray to receive Christ, they both said that they would like to "meditate" on it more, because they wanted to make certain that the prayer truly reflected the desire of their hearts.

It was a very encouraging conversation, because it felt like they were being open and honest about where they are in their relationship with God.

Please pray for these two students as they contemplate the truths of the Gospel.