David Wilkinson

Posted By Administrator on December 14, 2009

Our English Club ended for the year, and we had a great time the last day playing games and presenting awards to the students.  But what we were all really excited for was our Christmas Party a few days later at the cafe!  This was the first time we had invited the kids to the cafe, and the first time we were able to share the gospel with the whole group.  The whole night was a blast!

 Activities for the evening included American Christmas party traditions, such as a gingerbread house contest and a white elephant gift exchange.  We provided all the gifts, however, and the kids were delighted with their classmates’ funny and eccentric gifts – toilet paper,  canned meat, prune marmalade, gift certificates to the cafe and a “New York” sweatshirt. 

 Before the gift exchange, however, we had each students’ attention as we shared about the most important gift ever given: Jesus.  David shared his testimony of receiving that gift when he was 13, around the same age as the kids there, and how they can receive the gift of salvation as well.  It was the quietest and most attentive I’ve ever seen the kids. Praise the Lord for that! 

Please keep these children in prayer!  We talk to them often on Facebook, and we’re all eagerly anticipating the return of English club in February!  Pray that as we continue to get to know them, they’d ask more about how they can have a personal relationship with Jesus.

Also, I’m back in the States for Christmas!  It’s been so great to see so many of you already, and I look forward to reconnecting with many more of you during my stay.  I’ll be here through January 14, with part of that time spent at the mission’s conference in California.  So if you see me around church, grab me and say hi!  I’m so thankful for each and every one of you, and it’s been so encouraging to see your smiling faces and hear that you’ve been praying for me and for the people of Split!

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