Santa Rosa/Novato, CA—Gospel Trip, Days 13-14
2/6/15: Praise the Lord that eight students from Sonoma State University (SSU) attended the college meeting tonight; four came last Friday and four for the first time. We also had one faculty from SSU joined us tonight. We had dinner together followed by singing, and then we got into three groups and fellowshipped on the precious blood of Christ. One new student was deeply touched that sin causes us to be separated from God but we can simply confess that sin to God and believe that the blood of Jesus has taken that sin away. She felt she is away from God in the past year and she is so happy she is here tonight. The family invited the students to come back Monday nights for study time and all the students also would love to come back next Friday. Some of them stay for game and made good connections with each other. Please pray for all these students that they can continue growing in life and enjoying the church life with all the saints.
It was raining during the day so we all went to door-knocking. Praise the Lord for a wonderful raining day that kept many people home. We had six teams and the saints went door to door and were rejoicing in the rain. Eleven more Bibles were given to this neighborhood and two people prayed and received the Lord. We also had two Bible studies with two students during the day. One is a student came to the college meeting last Friday and she is interested in joining the Thursday Bible study at the dorm.
2/7/15: We had a wonderful day out door knocking. We had 55 saints form 18 teams and go door to door in Santa Rosa and Rohnert Park; 46 Bibles were given out and 34 people are open for revisit/follow up. We also met some students from Santa Rosa Junior College who would be interested in Bible studies. Many saints testified that this is the most open area they had been, and the population is mostly typical Americans. We have 197 contacts in our database so far who we met in the past two weeks and are open for follow up. The field is white but workers few. Please pray for the saints in this area. May the Lord bless their labor and gain some open homes and have an organic growth in Santa Rosa and Novato. Please also pray that the Lord will send supply, that some young saints, families and serving ones would migrate and join the labor here.
Team Statistics (As of 2/7/2015):
- Tracts/Free Bible offers distributed: 3556
- Bibles/Ministry Books distributed: 417
- Contacted (>30s): 510
- Those who prayed or were saved: 46
- Number of appointments: 38
- Number visited: 47
Prayer burdens:
- SSU Campus: Please pray for current twenty core student contacts, that they would grow in life, enjoy and remain in the church life, and be normal functioning members of the Body of Christ. Please pray for the continuation of the Bible studies, study nights, and college meetings at SSU, that many student would be captured and supplied by the Word of God.
- Community: Please pray for the revisit of the warm doors we gained by door knocking. May the Lord lead the saints to the open ones for follow up and revisit; and may the Lord gain some open homes through the saints’ visits and raise up the lampstand in Santa Rosa!
- Please pray that the Lord would burden some young saints, families, and serving ones to move to this white field.
