New Follower of Jesus from Laboring at UMASS
We just received exciting news from Tommy, Matt’s main contact at UMASS, Amherst. Your prayers have been answered!
A couple of months ago I (Matt) spent half a day training Tommy and a few students at UMASS before spending some time witnessing on campus. A week later we had plans to do the same thing, but I got sick. I felt I heard from God that morning to rest and postpone my meeting with them.
Tommy and a few guys met up and practiced without me before going out in pairs to try to share the gospel (they didn’t need me!). Tommy was with a guy named Gideon. The two of them received several rejections and ended up back in the place where they started in the student center. Gideon then pointed out a guy he saw when they started and explained he had a strong impression they should talk to him.
The young man they talked to was a Hindu-background atheist named Mrinal. After briefly trying to get out of the conversation, he opened up and agreed to read the Bible with Tommy. Since then they’ve met several times, and Mrinal repented in prayer just before Thanksgiving! Tommy is going to start talking to Mrinal about the cost of discipleship and baptism soon.
