Urban Immersion: One Life-Changing Day
It was a faith-stretching experience for students from Ball State University in Muncie to participate in Urban Immersion, Here’s Life Inner City’s spring break project. They could have gone south, to the beach, or they could have gone home to study for mid-terms. But instead, they wanted to be part of what God is doing in the inner city. Christy, from Ball State University, writes about one life-changing day: I helped out in a 3rd grade classroom in a local elementary school. The teacher told me that most of the students had parents who were addicted to drugs or alcohol. The children were sweet, and yet they seemed to have a lot of anger. I used the children’s Gospel bead bracelet to share about God’s love and forgiveness with nine of the girls during lunch. In the end, they asked if they could pray and receive Christ right then to forgive them. We all quietly prayed in that loud lunchroom, and then we talked more about sin, forgiveness and growing in Jesus. God used these sweet, angry children to remind me of the simplicity of faith. Later that afternoon, the teacher asked Christy to share what she had told the girls, this time in front of the whole class. Christy was able to share the Gospel with all of them! Afterward, many of them asked questions and expressed interest in knowing Jesus personally. Urban Immersion continues throughout March in eight Here’s Life cities (Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Orlando and Seattle). |
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Geographically, it’s only about 220 miles from Muncie, in east central Indiana, to the community south of Chicago called Roseland. But in many ways, it’s a different world.