Mysterious Girl Helps Initiate Movement

This is just one example of the incredible things God did through our amazing staff over the past month. This story comes from the famous Emily Bastine, pictured here to the right of Miss Andrea Byl:

It is the biggest week of Spring Breakers in the city. I am once again exploring the city and searching for a university in a neighborhood that I haven’t visited before, but this time I am accompanied by six staff and students from Montana State, Appalachian State and Denver Metro. I keep thinking "How am I going to get seven people on a small private university?".

After reaching the entrance, the girls and I “distract” the security guard so the four guys could access campus. As we enter the office with the security guard, I see the guys walk onto campus out of the corner of my eye. We build trust with an administrator, and she allows us to stick around for a little while as well.

Before I know it Jenny (student at Colorado School of Mines), Katie (staff at Montana State) and I are sitting down with a girl named Gaby. After introducing myself, I ask her if she knows of anyone on campus that loves God and wants to make an impact on their campus. She stares at me blankly, and then says she knows a guy who talks about Jesus a lot and gives me his name and phone number. A few hours later I decide to call Pablo—not even sure if it’s a real number. He answers in class and says that he is a Christian and wants to meet us the next morning.

All seven of us arrive the next morning to meet with Pablo. As I begin to explain what we are doing in the city (believing God to raise up a movement of students on every university) he is engaged and excited. Pablo texts his friend Yanneth to come out of class to meet us as well. As he explains to her what we are doing, she inquires, “How do we start our own group?”. So I begin to describe what ministry looks like and we plan to be in touch the next couple of weeks.

I meet with Pablo and his other Christian friend Juan on Monday with a group of staff visiting us from our international headquarters. We talk more about their passion for reaching their campus. They agree to start a prayer movement on campus next week.

As we wrap up the meeting, Pablo tells me that Jesus had given him a heart for reaching his peers just weeks before meeting me and he had begun to talk to his pastor about how he could be a missionary to young people. His pastor told him to start at his university, and the very next day I called him. He says that he knows the Lord wants us to work together because God had specifically answered his prayers. He didn’t know how to reach his campus.

The best part of the story is that none of these students know a Gaby on campus! Pray for Pablo, Yanneth and Juan as they begin to seek the Lord for direction for their campus.