We got to take the current DTS (Discipleship Training
School) that we are leading to Cambridge last week for a week of teaching and
sharing the story of Jesus on the streets.
It was a really significant week for the group for a number
of different reasons. Firstly it helped to deepen the friendships between us
all, to help gel us together as a community. Secondly it helped us to be able
to challenge some of the heart attitudes that are in all of us. Thirdly it
helped to build confidence in our trainees, from not feeling like they would be
able to talk to anyone, to being able to approach people and get into
conversations with.
We had teaching in the mornings from a lady in YWAM who
spends most of her time talking with people and sharing who Jesus is and what
he has done with them. We then spent the afternoons on the streets of Cambridge
close to the University talking with people. We had a range of different
experiences, which is normal, from people who did not want to hear anything and
would tell us to go away, to people who really wanted to talk and hear what we
were saying. We used a coloured bracelet as a tool to help tell the gospel
story. Over the week we had 11 people commit their lives to Jesus and Connie,
the lady we were with, spent time with each making sure they got connected to a
church or other people who know Jesus.
All in all we had a great week, and it has built excitement for
the outreach of the school, which we will be doing in October through to
December.
