Today, I took two of the girls I'm working with, Courtney and Laura, and we headed out to Columbia University to do the Soularium Image surveys both to collect information to create a foundation for the art we'll be working on as well as to engage in spiritual conversations and hopefully, to share the Gospel with people who are seeking.
The ironic thing for me is that 4 1/2 years ago, the one thing I desired more than anything was to get my masters degree in Architecture at Columbia University and to live as an architect in NYC. God changed my heart over a very short timespan and I find it so interesting that He has brought me back to the place I longed to go to, but this time, with a different purpose.
I went out with Laura to do the surveys and we met three women. Jessica, Jennifer, and Zipporah. Jessica is a grad student at Columbia and an atheist. Jennifer is a freshman at Barnard who just happened to be hanging out at Columbia. She's studying Economics. Finally, Zipporah is a woman, originally from Belize, who just happened to be taking a break at Columbia. Though we had good conversations with both Jessica and Jennifer, they were cut short. But what started out as an unlikely conversation with Zipporah as she wasn't really into the image surveys and needed to leave, God in all His planning and hilarity started a nice rainshower and thunderstorm with massive lightning bolts that drove us to shelter.
For about two and a half hours, we engaged in a deep conversation with Zipporah and were able to share our own testimonies and the Gospel with her. Zipporah knows alot about the Bible and her worldview is such that it is a mix of Judaism, Greek Orthodox, and Islam. I know...quite the combination. Zipporah's hangup is that she believes that Jesus is the son of God, but not a man. That He is savior, but still a man. She believes that the reason He was put here on earth was to teach us obedience and good works. She knows quite a bit of scripture, but takes passages where Jesus calls Himself the "I Am" and where He forgives the sins of others and claims that man mistook what He was saying and treat Him as an idol. We're hopefully going to meet with her on Saturday. Pray that the Holy Spirit would reveal the truth to her.
About to head out again, thanks for your prayers!
The ironic thing for me is that 4 1/2 years ago, the one thing I desired more than anything was to get my masters degree in Architecture at Columbia University and to live as an architect in NYC. God changed my heart over a very short timespan and I find it so interesting that He has brought me back to the place I longed to go to, but this time, with a different purpose.
I went out with Laura to do the surveys and we met three women. Jessica, Jennifer, and Zipporah. Jessica is a grad student at Columbia and an atheist. Jennifer is a freshman at Barnard who just happened to be hanging out at Columbia. She's studying Economics. Finally, Zipporah is a woman, originally from Belize, who just happened to be taking a break at Columbia. Though we had good conversations with both Jessica and Jennifer, they were cut short. But what started out as an unlikely conversation with Zipporah as she wasn't really into the image surveys and needed to leave, God in all His planning and hilarity started a nice rainshower and thunderstorm with massive lightning bolts that drove us to shelter.
For about two and a half hours, we engaged in a deep conversation with Zipporah and were able to share our own testimonies and the Gospel with her. Zipporah knows alot about the Bible and her worldview is such that it is a mix of Judaism, Greek Orthodox, and Islam. I know...quite the combination. Zipporah's hangup is that she believes that Jesus is the son of God, but not a man. That He is savior, but still a man. She believes that the reason He was put here on earth was to teach us obedience and good works. She knows quite a bit of scripture, but takes passages where Jesus calls Himself the "I Am" and where He forgives the sins of others and claims that man mistook what He was saying and treat Him as an idol. We're hopefully going to meet with her on Saturday. Pray that the Holy Spirit would reveal the truth to her.
About to head out again, thanks for your prayers!
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