Keeping Up With the Andersons

Did you know it costs $7 for a Bible for a Chinese believer? The Bible League also has people who teach and explain God's Word to these believers.

On March 31, Toby, myself and many from the Economics faculty are doing a 7km Walk for Bibles at Sydney Olympic Park. It's a beautiful track (we did it about 2-3 years ago) and a great time of fellowship, but a great time to raise funds to help our brothers and sisters grow in Christ. Please come and join us. You can register online. It's a fundraising walk so you want to get people to sponsor you as you walk.

Over the next few weeks, we'll let you know what time we plan on meeting, and we are hoping to have a picnic lunch afterwards.

Today is supposedly the biggest day in the international students o-week! We are expecting many students from China to come past our stall and sign up to find out more about Jesus. So many students we meet have already contact with Christians - their friends, a grandparent, a teacher...what a blessing that they have already been thinking about God. Just some background info - they are taught a subject called Marxism all the way through primary and high school, where they are taught that there is no God, and that everything is a big cosmic accident. They are questioning and have been impacted by the kindness of Christians. Please pray for the many people who will sign up today.

Our stall at the international student week is in the far corner of the room, where they've put the clubs and societies. We have a Catonese speaking Chinese Christian group on one side (fantastic - although a minority in the international student population these days - Chinese students mostly speak Mandarin) and the Hindu society on the other. We're opposite a very colourful stand for the Hillsong group on campus. Pray that these various groups won't confuse the students, and that we would work hard at meeting them and caring for them and leading them to Jesus, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

We have tried to have conversations with Western international students (from UK, America, Europe) and they are so often not interested...they think it's so passe...they were 'indoctrinated' as a young person and now at uni is the time to throw off the shackles of religion. We need to persist with them though, because if there is one interested person, that is worth it, and also, you never know what impact that conversation and challenge to investigate Jesus as an adult may have on them. Pray that they may experience the kindness of Christians in their classes and may be led to know Jesus.