Update/Prayer Requests

Hello everyone,

I have created this blog so that my prayer and financial supporters can see what I'm up to and pray for me effectively.

I have been in Winston for 2 days now, and have mostly been working on tasks that are not very exciting to talk about. I've been making phone calls to potential supporters, responding to emails, etc.

On a more interesting note, I love the family I'm living with. They are a lot of fun to hang out with, and I really think that I'm connecting with them well. I have especially enjoyed hanging out with the two sons, Daniel, who is a rising senior in high school, and Michael, who finished high school a year ago and just recently got back from a YWAM trip. The parents, Pat and Jayne, go to bed early and the three of us have been hanging out in the basement (where I sleep) after they go to bed. We've had some good conversations, and I'm beginning to feel pretty comfortable around them. Which brings me to:

Prayer request #1: That I will be a huge blessing to the Nasrallah household as I live there, and that the relationship I have with each one of them will impact them positively for the kingdom. I especially want to set a good example for the boys.

On a different note, I got to go over to the Wake campus yesterday and connect with some students. I had lunch with Luke, a guy I've been discipling for about a year now, and his roommate, Phil, who I've been praying for for a very long time (about a year and a half). I'm very excited that those two guys are here for the summer. I yearn for Luke to grow a lot in his relationship with Christ this summer and really get set on fire for Jesus. I also desire to spend more time with Phil. God has really placed him on my heart to pray for for a long time, and to be honest, I have been really confused about how to approach him. In a nutshell, I feel like there is some spiritual warfare going on in his life, that the enemy wants his soul, and also I feel that there is some resistance on his part to talking about spiritual things. He acts like he just wants to "have fun with life" and never talk about anything serious or personal. Every time we've had some sort of spiritual conversation, it just sort of dies. So I'm left very confused. All that to say, please pray:

Prayer request #2: That I will be able to share my testimony and the gospel with Phil, and that He will see Christ's relevance for his life and be receptive to the gospel. That would be a huge victory for the kingdom of God.

Prayer request #3: That Luke will be a powerful witness for the Lord in Phil's life since they are roommates, and that Luke will hunger and thirst for Jesus and grow a lot in his walk with the Lord this summer.

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