STP Blog #6
Well Hello,
It’s taken me a little bit longer to get time to write this blog so I have a little more stuff to cover. Since my last blog a few things that have happened at the STP are: the staff have left project, the CCP team has come to project for the week, We went bowling for out last social, Andrew Knight gave the theme talk this week about missions and the world, and the Lord has really been working in me this last week.
On Thursday this last week the staff left project to go away for a month in order to raise support, spend time with family and enjoy time away from their job as a staff member for CO. It has been really nice having the staff on project but I am somewhat excited that they are gone. This is not because I hold some secret grudge against the staff but rather because the trend seems to be that when staff leaves things on project really pick up and the Lord does a lot of really cool things in people’s lives.
With the staff leaving the Cross Cultural Project (CCP) has come to STP for the week. The CCP is a group of 10 students and two staff persons who go to New Delhi, India and do ministry on the campus of St. Stevens College. This group will be in India for 5 weeks and will be attempting to spread the gospel on this college campus. This college that they are going to is very strategic in that many of the children of high up government officials in India go to this college so many of the people that the CCP team will be sharing the gospel with will be people of power in India. I pray that God would use these 10 to reach the nation of India.
For this week’s social we went bowling. We did not just go bowling though (for that would be far too easy) but each team dressed up as a certain music genre. My team got to task of dressing up like country. So I dressed up as a cowboy (I hope to get pictures up) and I was brought back to the days when I was a child and wanting to be a cowboy. So we went bowling and had a good time but the fun did not stop there. See is that I was all dressed up I decided it would be fitting to take a shot at the mechanical bull that is located near our hotel. Let’s just say I took the bull by the horns…
Andrew Knight, who along with his wife, are the staff that are going with the CCP team and AK gave this week’s theme talk. It was about missions and why as Christians we care about missions and the world. There were a few videos shown during the talk that were really good. It was a very convicting talk because at the end of it AK gave the charge for us to just do something. If we believe that Jesus Christ came and died so that we can obtain salvation then we should want to spread that news around the world. So we are called to just do something. That does not mean that we should all be missionaries but it does mean that for those of us who are not called to the mission field that we should be supporting and at the very minimum praying for missions. If we truly want our Christ to come back we need to reach the world. (Matt 24:14) read it…
Finally I would just like to praise God for the world he has been doing in my life and in the lives of the guys in my room. God has been revealing a lot of sin in my life and so I am force to turn to the cross for and sense of comfort. I see how I am not a good room leader, how I am selfish, prideful, and unloving and yet I want to show people that I have it all together when I don’t. I am now beginning to understand what Paul is talking about when he boasts of nothing but the Cross. I am beginning to see that boasting in the cross is me being real about my sin and simply looking to the cross of Jesus Christ and resting in His blood. Praise God!!!
Again thanks to all who read this blog and support me with prayer or financially. You are all much more of a blessing than I deserve. Praise Jesus Christ!
Peace & God Bless
Levi Peterson
