Testifying to His goodness!

What do students struggle with nowadays? What do they wish were a part of their life? How do they view God? And very importantly, are there students out there who would like to know more about God?

The Student Venture staff decided that instead of just thinking about it, it would be better to go to the streets to find out and that’s what we did.

For the past 2 months, we went to several locations like the Plaza Singapore, Tampines mall to hear from the students. Many were in the midst of exams but still they were willing to participate in our surveys/questioning. From our findings, we found out that many students wanted freedom and wished they had more time with their family and friends. Earning money and traveling abroad were also among the top wishes from many of them. But more importantly, we found many who could describe vaguely who God is and wanted to know more about God.

There have been many testimonies of how we were able to bring the gospel to share with students who were interested to find out more.

Below is a testimony from one of the SV staff, Geraldine:

20th August (Wednesday)

After last week witnessing at Plaza Sing, I really hope that there will be opportunity (for me) to share the gospel to the students I met. We have been using Soularium (a new evangelistic tool where it uses pictures to start conversations) and it was very good in engaging students in meaningful conversations. It’s amazing
how they open up to share about their life and dreams they have.

However, the difficulty I had was, how do I transit from their sharing and share to them about Jesus?

I was reminded this week that God is an all-knowing God and has a greater plan in reaching to his lost children. I managed to share the gospel not just once but twice! And one of them, a RGS girl, even prayed to invite Jesus into her life. It was really amazing to see how God had prepared her and I was able to bring her to know Jesus.

Looking back at my second sharing of the gospel, I was amazed at how God brought a girl who was so open to my path again.  Jeanette (a graduated SV student volunteer) and I did the questions in the Soularium with a CHIJ girl, and we were suprised to learn that she was actually looking for answers to religion at
this point in her life! We were really encouraged! Encouraged that she was so hungry to know more and also
encouraged to see how God has led us to talk to herself and her friend.

Another testimony by another SV staff, Esther:

10th September (Wednesday)

Met 2 sec 1 girls from Singapore Sports School today outside Plaza Singapura. 1 is a Christian, the other is a Thai mixed blood who received Christ today! After we went through the “Soularium”, the set of 50 photos to open the conversation with them, Geraldine and I decided to share the “What You see is not all you get” aka 4 Spiritual Laws booklet with them.

As I was sharing with them I felt the tension between having to assure the Christian of her salvation and the other how to receive Christ. But in the end, the girl still received Christ! They also agreed to find out more about Christianity, so I will be thinking of ways to follow-up with them through e-mail.

In total, we have surveyed with about 100 students and it has been a great journey to find out so many things about the students and also to be able to tell them something more about God. Though not all may invite Jesus into their lives, but we believe God has planted a seed into their lives.

Using Soularium to find out what students wish

We are still currently doing this project. If you are interested to join us, drop us an email and we will let you know when and where we are going next!