Well, it seems that today was a significant in many ways! First of all, the Vancouver Canucks won game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals against Boston with a goal just 24 seconds before the final buzzer! While being a significant moment for the Canucks, this was also an opportunity that the Impacters seized to draw other young people into their community and build relationships as the men’s household on Holmwood (aka “Animal House”) saw over 30 people in attendance for this spectacle, many of whom were not Impacters themselves. This is the kind of natural relationship building that lays the foundation for a genuine witness of faith and can lead to great opportunities to share the Gospel.
During the time I spent with the Impacters last night, I also heard two stories of evangelization opportunities that were capitalized on. One story was of an Impacter who, after inviting one of the men from his faith study to hang out with him one evening, took the opportunity to share the Ultimate Relationship booklet. Another Impacter was invited to a high school mass and took the opportunity to invite over 1000 high school students to join us tonight for the third week of Cornerstone, our weekly evangelistic outreach event!
Amidst all of this, the staff team took some time earlier this afternoon to prayerful discern how the mission is going and the Lord spoke very powerfully. Among other things, we had a clear sense that the Lord was reminding us to fix our eyes on what God the Father is doing and what He is able to do, so that we will not become discouraged, but press on with confident hope that despite our weaknesses and even through our weaknesses, the Lord will bring about great conversion in the lives of those He is placing in our paths! May we thus lift our eyes to Him and continue to invite others into our encounter of the Father’s heart!
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