The city of Fullerton has a population of more than 135,00 people. The challenge to reach as many as possible in a short amount of time is overwhelming, but God knows how to direct His workers to the house and street where there are souls searching for Him.
This first week has been an amazing growing experience. Here are some of the the highlights of what God did.
On my first day out searching for bible study interests I was really impressed to work on a specific street while scouting territory. Sure enough, that first day, three bible study interests were found on that street! Emilia, a Hispanic mother with four children and a husband, recently lost her job, and was open to studying together on Friday. Chris, a 25-year-old military veteran who served in Iraq, just happened to be looking for a church and was open to studying the Bible together the following day at a local cafe. Wendell, a 25-year-old homeless, who loves the Lord and looks for ways to help people and spread the love of God, also signed up to study the following day at a cafe.
A challenge that I had was in the evening times, reaching the affluent of the community. A large portion of them are Korean and of Asian origin, which can pose a language barrier, but I was praying that God would pour out His Spirit upon the communities and open the doors of people's hearts to realize their need of him even when they had all the materialistic things they could want. Sure enough the Lord increased my faith as I saw people being open to spiritual materials and especially Great Controversies, but the greatest answer to prayer happened on Thursday when I saw two families touched with a need for God and saw the value in our materials. One family decided to take all the books that we have and also signed up for Bible studies! Another family really needed the visit and prayer and kept four of our books and was open to Bible studies in the near future!
"The harvest truly is great but the laborers are few", Jesus said in Matthew 9:37. We have been praying that God will send forth more laborers to do the work here in Fullerton from our local church. On Saturday, as we went out to do door-to-door work, Lola our house grandma who was super nervous and shy about surveying the community, signed up two people for Bible studies and volunteered herself to go and drop off the Bible studies to them today! Grandma Lola is just one of the church members who God is sending out and quickening with His Spirit to help hasten His coming. I look forward to seeing more of what God is going to do in the following weeks!
-Ester
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