Over the past three weeks we have been at Kinjo University on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Kinjo is a Christian women’s university but despite its Christian roots, our team is not quite free to talk about Christianity outside of the Christianity centre building there. However, God is still gracious and has led us to around 20 girls since we started going on campus. Our day at Kinjo usually consisted of meeting random students in the morning, praying together before lunch, lunch fellowship with contacts and Christian students and then meeting random students again.

At the same time we have been going to Nanzan University on Mondays. Nanzan is a co-educational Catholic university and students generally speak better English here than at Kinjo. God has also been working during the three times we have been at Nanzan. We invited all the contacts we met from Nanzan and Kinjo over the past two weeks to a gyoza (dumpling) party on Friday December 4 at Joyce’s house. 10 students attended (9 girls, 1 boy). We had a great time chatting to students and making dumplings together. Several spiritual conversations took place over the duration of the night. We also taught students how to do a Tim Tam slam and although some students weren’t quick enough with eating their Tim Tams we all had a lot of fun with the students.

This week and next week we have been meeting and trying to arrange meet-ups with students outside of lunchtimes so that we can share our testimonies and the gospel with them. Particular names to pray for include Riko, Mori Mori, Ayaka, Asuna, Saori, Miso, Nao, and Sayaka. Please pray that God will break down barriers at Kinjo and Nanzan and that God will open up opportunities to meet students outside of lunchtime and that He will protect the meetings and what is shared during that time. Also pray for the upcoming Aussie culture night, that students we have already met will be able to attend the event, hear and understand the Gospel and trust in Christ.

¹⁴You are my friends if you do what I command. ¹⁵I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.

Also, yesterday at lunch, we were able to experience God truly answering what we asked in His name when we prayed for a contact that Juli and Yukari (a graduate from Nanzan) had met the week before. Minori is a 3^rd year student with Christian parents but hadn’t made a decision for herself to trust in Christ. At our prayer time before meeting students for lunch, we prayed for the opportunity to share the KGP with her and for her to trust Christ. Praise God for answering that prayer! Yukari and Joyce (a CCC staff member) got to share the Gospel with her throughout lunch and even into 3^rd period when she was supposed to have class. Please pray that Minori will now grow in her faith and that God will strengthen and protect her in this important period.