Is There a God?
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HANDS HEADLINES E-Letter
———March 15, 2005 E-Letter: —————-
Hello again! This month is so full of happenings that there’s not space to print all of them. Click these links to read more about: Student 2 Student Update (100 people trust Christ through this strategy in which students commit to be intentional about praying for friends who don’t know Christ and sharing the gospel with them); We Do Disney; Kids Update; and more. The story below was adapted from WorldWide Challenge – an excellent magazine published six times a year. Let us know if you’d like a subscription. We’d be glad to have it sent to you!
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“Is there a God?” Patricia Calderon typed into her computer. Ask Jeeves, The Internet search engine, boasts the ability to find the answer to any question. This was just one of many search engines Patricia frequently used to find all kinds of information, from news to music. But could it really tell her about God?
The first site she opened was www.EveryStudent.com, an evangelistic effort by Campus Crusade for Christ. She blinked in amazement when she saw the first article. It was titled, “Is There A God?”
“It freaked me out,” she remembers about looking at the entire list of articles. “Every single question I had, it was all right there.”
She started reading, frozen to her computer. The minutes turned to hours: She read about knowing God, and she read about how to become a Christian. “When I read that God doesn’t care about us praying lofty, spiritual words, He cares about our hearts, it was so freeing. So I just prayed, ‘Yeah, what it says on the screen, God, I want that; I want to know You.'”
Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of online Americans use the Internet to perform spiritual and religious activities, according to a survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. But Patricia’s story is an example of how God is using the Internet to reach young people today. Over 2,000 of the 300,000+ visitors to EveryStudent.com have indicated that they have placed their faith in Christ just in the last few months. This does not include over 800 visitors from closed Muslim countries who visited the Arabic version of the site and indicated that they also trusted Christ!
It was early in the morning when Patricia invited Christ into her heart, with tears streaming down her face. At 2:49 a.m., she sent an e-mail to Ana Arias, one of 60 Campus Crusade staff members (including David) equipped to respond to emails through the EveryStudent.com site. At this point, Patricia was preparing for her freshman year of college at UC-Davis and she feared that something might happen to her mom after she moved away. “If I pray hard enough,” Patricia wrote, “do you think she’ll be OK?”
Ana e-mailed back the next day, assuring Patricia that being honest with God about her fear was a good thing, that she should give all her fears to God and trust Him with the future.
Patricia’s next step was college, and one of the first people she met was a student involved with Campus Crusade. She now regularly attends Campus Crusade meetings and actively talks about her faith with non-Christian friends.
Thank you for the part you play in seeing the lives of students changed for Christ!! Your investment is reaping eternal rewards.
~ David & Shannon + Avery, Addison & Toby
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