Here we are at the end of Splash after greeting 3000 freshmen and talking to 77 new students. We had a great day so we are all tired, but excited. This was a new group of returning students and none of them had done Splash before. 77 names is a lot for a group of rookies!
I met freshmen from all over the US - California, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Washington. and from Korea, Japan and even Mongolia! BU has over 4000 international students - one of the highest numbers among private schools in the country. We pray each year that international students would join us.
I spent the evening putting all the emails onto our follow up list. Now begins the task of contacting each student personally and getting together with them. Our students will do most of that.
At the very end of our time at Splash we were in a circle praying for the day and two preChristians came up to talk to me. I invited them to join our circle and they prayed with us. Then Thomas and I had a long discussion with them about Christianity addressing a number of their questions. They were very interested and I think they may end up coming on Tuesday.
Our next event is the Religious Life Fair on Tuesday just before our first meeting that night. Please pray that we get even more names that day and that every student we met at Splash and that day, will come to our first meeting and they would like what they see and experience, and commit to joining us. Thank you so much for your prayers.
