International Student comes to Christ!

Today I have a good news to tell you. My friend Jim from China has accepted Jesus last Tuesday at our international student biblestudy.

Actually I met Jim through Gent (IV Staff), since he was looking for a English speaking friend and Gent suggested him to go to my biblestudy. Jim could not make it to the biblestudy that week, so invited

him to the International Christian Fellowship (ICF) I go to instead. He met many other international students there and Christian people.

He started to come to ICF every Friday and on 3rd week he decided to come to IV international biblestudy. That Tuesday there were many international students and he really enjoyed the study and fellowship. I went to eat dinner with him some night on weekday and took him to authentic Chinese restaurant in convoy. Since he is new and doesn’t have a car he wasn’t able to eat authentic Chinese food for a while. He was so excited and happy after he ate at the restaurant.

This Tuesday I picked him up and went to biblestudy at Coronado together. On the way there I asked him which do you think was first chicken or egg? And his reply was “chicken” and I asked him so who made a chicken, or how did the chicken existed in a first place? His answer was ” God made it”. I was so surprised to hear that and I asked “so do u believe in God?” And he said “yes”. I had a lot that I wanted to talked to him about then, but we arrived to the biblestudy, so we played some game and started our biblestudy.

This week international student was only Jim, so I did one on one study on him. I gave him chinese bible and he also wanted look at the english bible at the same time to learn in both languages. He could answer all the questions very well, and he understood that important thing is what we think and not the religious duty. After he answered that God is what makes clean and not the religious duty, I asked to him again do u believe in God? He said yes. I asked him do u know about Jesus? He said yes, and he told me that ever since he came to ICF and our biblestudy he became interested in God, and was learning about God and Jesus on internet. I explained 4 circles without writing them, and tried to make it familiar to his life. Afterwards I explained to him more in detail what Jesus did for us, why he died on a cross and how much he loves us. Jim asked God forgives our sin right? And I said yes. I said Jesus’s blood washes our sin. I asked him would u like to accept Jesus as your Savior today? And he said yes happily and surely. I asked him do u believe that Jesus is the LORD and God has risen from dead? He answered yes without any doubt in his eyes. So I prayed for him that God will bless him from now and be with him. Also my regular prayer of accepting God, I asked Jacky to repeat after me to confirm his faith. Jim said to me he believe in Jesus but he feels unqualified to be a christian. I told him u dont have to read the whole bible to be a christian. As long as u believe in Jesus as your God and believe in His resurraction, that all u need to accept christ. I said from then holy spirit will teach you more about God.

We went to summer bible study group and told them how Jim just accepted Christ, and everyone was so happy and Eric from mesa prayed for Jim in English and Chinese. We will celebrate his new life next Tuesday at our biblestudy with a cake that Anthony is gonna bring. Jim was so happy after he told everyone and I told him all the Christian people are brother and sister in Christ from now. I think it meant a lot to him because they can only have one child in China. I think I want to disciple Jim and follow up with him from now, since I build trust with him and we are friends now.

I’m thinking to take him to all people’s church with me. He said he will continue to come to our international biblestudy. So that’s great. I’m sorry for my email being so long. I didn’t know which part to leave out, because I thought each things were God’s plan. I wanted to inform you about our new brother’s new life. Please pray for him, and it would be great if I can introduce him to you in a near future.

In Jesus we trust,

Mitsu