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Monday, April 4, 2011
Real Life Issues
3:28 AM | Posted by
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For the past few months, Clarke and Tara Woodall have been leading an English discussion group in their home. They had their last meeting a few weeks ago and this is what they have to say about the group:
Feb. 16th marked our final “Real Life Issues” English discussion group at our home, and I look back on the evening and all of our times together with many good memories. We have made friends, met new people and developed a few lasting relationships. When we undertook the task to start an English discussion group in our home Tara and I thought, “How can we make this effective so that it relates to people here and their way of looking at the world? How can we build a bridge between our discussions and the gospel?” After much prayer and counsel, we decided to form a “Real Life Issues” topical discussion group where we would focus on issues that make people think about what is real and what has lasting value. We have shared Christ, eternity, hope, love, assurance, death, struggles, victories, job loss, relational difficulties, political uneasiness, forced lifestyle changes and how people think today. Quite often our talks involved the sharing of childhood memories.
All along the way we have been hoping for the privilege of seeing Christ bring about a harvest out of our group, but we have not seen this yet with our own eyes. We have heard recent reports of people getting new jobs, leaving old friends to be with new ones and turning their lives in different directions. We have been very excited to see friendships develop between believers and non-believers. One person even told us last week, “This is due to the type of discussions we have been having,” and I praise God for this! We can only see many of these people once or maybe twice a week and it is sometimes difficult to connect on a more personal level. We have, however, connected closely with four individuals in our group, and we thank God for this wonderful opportunity. We will spend the remainder of our time here deepening these relationships. Thanks to all of you who are praying for God’s glory to be made known to the nations!
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