Dear Friends,
The last few weeks have been very full and we want to thank you so much for praying. A couple weekends ago EPIC had two national student conferences, one in Philadelphia and one in San Francisco. As we mentioned last moth, I (Brian) was in Philly for the East Coast student conference. Both conferences combined for over 400 students, up from last by over 100! Both conferences were significant times of teaching, ministry training, outreach, and community. Thanks for praying!
One of the highlights for many at the conference was the day of outreach. Some students partnered with churches for community-based outreaches in inner-city Philly. Other students went to local campuses like Temple, Drexel, Community College of Philadelphia, and University of Pennsylvania to engage students in spiritual discussions. Despite frigid temperatures, snow, and the unfortunate timing of the Philadelphia Eagles playing in the NFC Championship game during the exact time of the Day of Outreach, most students reported great opportunities to meet students and engage in meaningful spiritual discussion. Many ended up rating this part of the conference as the highlight of the conference because of the degree to which it was faith stretching and exciting!
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Another fun moment related to the girl in the picture to your left, Eihing. She’s a student in Buffalo, NY who attended the seminar my dad and I did. Afterwards we talked and she shared about her desire to share her faith and be more bold in communicating her faith to her friends. She shared that she had great fear that always held her back when the opportunities presented themself. (Can’t we all relate to that at times?!) I saw her again after the day of outreach and she was excited and told me, “I did it! It was really good!” Her experience of stepping out in faith was shared by many EPIC students in Philly and SF. Please pray for these students -that they continue to step out in faith back on their campuses to give witness to Jesus Christ through their words AND actions!
In His Name, Brian & Christine
Our meeting was really awesome and I appreciated Townsend’s leadership and humility. It’s so nice when you get in a more intimate setting with a big time leader, but he doesn’t act big time. He was down to earth, asked questions when he needed to, but was very comfortable with his cross-cultural limitations regarding the question of how people of other ethnic groups experience his material and content. I think I was most encouraged by how energized he was in recognizing the depth of the need for what we’re trying to do in the Asian American community and how by the end he was using “we” language as we tried to determine our next steps.