Diego Silva, one of our students on internship, shares:
Joyce, a former Amazing Facts contact, told me recently, “I had been praying that the Lord would send someone to study the Bible with me.” Amazing Facts gave us a list of their correspondence contacts in the Stafford area. Joyce received her first lesson in 1999, but never responded. I called to see if she still lives in the area; but the phone was disconnected, so I crossed her off my list. One afternoon, another student and I happened to be down the street visiting another contact, when I realized that Joyce lived nearby. I was impressed to go to her door.
When we mentioned Amazing Facts, she remembered that name and invited us in. After she found out that we were Seventh-day Adventists, she began to share, with tears in her eyes, that God had been convicting her about the Sabbath. We started studying with her, her husband, and her mother. Now the home is filled with people, including a group of children who are studying the Bible with other college students.
The Fundamentals of the Christian Faith class went door-to-door taking surveys in order to find people interested in attending the Amazing Facts Net 2005 evangelistic series. Rebecca Lui, one of the students, had an encouraging experience when she was asked to teach two church members how to fill out the surveys: I wasn’t planning on training others, at all.
I was nervous, because we had to ask questions such as, “Do you believe there is a God?” and “If so, who do you believe He is? Is Jesus the Son of God?” I am naturally shy, and I had never confronted people with such direct questions about God before.
We got a few surveys filled out. When one of my friends knocked on a door, I prayed that she would gain more confidence. The man who answered the door told us that he noticed that his neighbors weren’t answering their doors, even though they were home. He felt sorry for us and decided to help us out with the survey-“but no personal information.”
At the end we asked, “Would you be interested in doing Bible studies? Would you give your name and address?”
“I said, ‘No personal information,’” he replied.
I prayed, “Lord, please change this man’s heart to accept our offer for Bible studies, and help this to be a good experience for my friend.”
The man asked, “What denomination are you? I was good friends with a Seventh-day Adventist minister. I used to study the Bible and attend church with him. I believe that the seventh day is the Sabbath.” He was still hesitant to give us his name and address, but he finally did. Praise God that He answered my prayer!”
After two hours, despite many rejections, the students and church members found more than twenty people who were interested in studying the Bible. We praise the Lord for giving us these contacts for His kingdom.
