Down at Dinky Dock

While we have been here in Winter Park, FL for New Staff Training for Campus Crusade for Christ, I have had the opportunity to meet several people down at the lake that is behind our apartment. The name of the little park/beach by the lake is the Dinky Dock. It is a quaint little dock with a sandy beach under the shade of huge trees. There are lots of benches and places to rest and look out and observe God's beautiful creation. When you go early in the morning you will more than likely catch a glimpse of the playful otters gliding around in the water and poking their head up to look at you while smacking on their breakfast. It is by far our favorite place to go and take a break from all the studying we are doing with our classes her at NST.

It just so happens that Dinky Dock is also a popular place for people to come and enjoy the water and sun. During the afternoons and weekends it is quite a busy place with people loading their watercraft of choice off in to the lake. It is a prime location for meeting new people and engaging in conversation about Jesus.

So far I have met three people at the Dinky Dock, all with very different stories but ultimately all the same problem. They are spiritually dead. They don't know Jesus. In our Intro to theology class today the professor pressed the pause button on the lecture and opened his heart. He said "If we just realized how fearfully and wonderfully made each individual we come in contact with is, then we would have much more of a burning desire to share the gospel of Christ with them." With that in mind, I remember three individuals all who I had the privilege to engage in conversation with about my Savior. Their names are Jana, Maxwell, and Jim. No decisions were made to give their lives to Christ. Not yet. I am praying for them that the Holy Spirit would penetrate their heart with the truth. I am praying that I will have another opportunity to meet with them again. Two of the three I am pretty sure that I will be able to see again. So please pray for these three souls who were all created in God's image that the would come know Jesus and experience true life in Him. And remember:

that everyone that we come in contact with was fearfully and wonderfully made by our Creator.

Psalm 139:13-16

For you formed my inward parts;

you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Wonderful are your works;

my soul knows it very well.

My frame was not hidden from you,

when I was being made in secret,

intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed substance;

in your book were written, every one of them,

the days that were formed for me,

when as yet there was none of them.

Down at Dinky Dock hopefully to be continued...........