LUCF Jesus Awareness Week

Thanks to so many who've prayed and asked for updates after Lincoln's first ever Jesus Awareness Week.


It surpassed my expectations - many in LUCF got stuck in and enthusiastic, especially for Txt4Toasties.

Here's a short summary I've written for the TSCF quarterly, Canvas:

Gordon from China. Majid & Marianne from Iran. Keith from NZ.

Just a few of the Lincoln students engaging with Jesus Awareness Week at Lincoln.

Gordon came up after seeing the huge who is Jesus? chalking and said ‘I in NZ only four months. Please, who is Jesus?’.

Majid and Marianne listened to some of the lunchtime talks and wanted to say how much they admired Jesus, but he was only a prophet of Islam, will return one day, but never died and why do you Christians worship three Gods?

Keith just wasn’t interested, was apathetic: ‘Who is Jesus? Who cares.’

The whole week was a new venture for LUCF, so it was great to see a student and a university staff track, and to experience the enthusiasm of LUCF, some Christian staff, and our visitors to help us from the UK, China and even Auckland and Otago. Lunchtime talks about Jesus the way, Jesus the life, and Jesus the truth; chalking who is Jesus? around campus; early morning prayer meetings; Jesus quizzes; a staff & student combined praise event and the highlight - txt 4 toasties, where halls students could ask any question about Jesus and receive a free toastie and a start of an answer. Some things worked real well others less so - but that’s inspired some in LUCF for next time!

Good times, great to have visitors from UK, China, Otago and Auckland helping out; great to have a staff track; great to have the support of the Student's Association; great to have fantastic weather (sunny and warm, in direct contrast to the weeks either side!) to enable better first-contact Jesus quizzes; great to see a couple of people become Christians.

All good, but oh so tiring! Great to have Lizzy and homegroup leaders and others forcing me to rest. So that's good too. I'm looking forward to my first week of leave this year in late August, which will be a chance to properly refresh ready for the next season of the year.