The month of February was quite a whirlwind for me. After arriving home from Thailand and getting four days of much needed rest, me, Jacob and Kim packed our bags and headed south. We were headed down to Liberty University’s Mission Emphasis Week. We had no idea what God had in store for us. As we left the snow behind we were able to get out our flip flops (which made my day) and even stop at Chick-fil-A. There is just something amazing about good sweet tea and a spicy chicken sandwich.
I was not sure what to expect at Liberty especially after reading The Unlikely Disciple (which I think any Christian should read…real eye opener). Our booth was placed on the third floor of DeMoss way back in the corner next to the study hall. God is so much bigger than a poor placement of the C@mpus T@rget booth. We had been praying that God would bring the right students to our table and that He did!! We were able to talk with quite a few students who want to come with us in August! While there we had the privilege of hearing Nick Saint bring a challenging word as well as the president of Compassion and on Friday David Platt. It was an awesome week! Thank you so much for praying for God to give us more students! He heard and answered! Look at y’all…sewing more and more into Chin@! Thank you!
Friday after convocation at Liberty we headed farther south to Duke University. I got to meet up with my dear Ch!nese friend Fish and two of his workmates for about 45 minutes. It was so awesome, we got to talk more about the Gospel and I got to pray over them! Please continue to pray for Fish that he comes to grips with His Creator. He is so close!! It’s such a special treat every time I get to see him.
InterVarsity at Duke was quite incredible. First of all it consists of mostly Asian Americans. During my talk I actually threw some Ch!nese in there and the whole room erupted. They responded in Ch!nese to me. It was pretty cool. Afterwards we were able to stick around and pray with quite a few of the students. The Lord really knitted my heart with one of the seniors there, Colleen. She is praying seriously about coming with us in August. Please pray for clarity for her decision! We would be so blessed to have her! We rolled out of Duke at 11:45 pm and headed to one of my most favorite places in the world…Greenville, South Carolina. Can I just take a second to say that God has been so faithful in protecting us while we are on the road? He is so good! We arrived at 3:00 am and crashed! The next day was filled with playing with my precious niece Jordan Cherie and spending some much needed quality time with my mom and friends. I was able to go to Rocky Creek Baptist Church on Sunday and it was so good to see my South Carolina family.
On Monday we interviewed two people for C@mpus T@rget from South Carolina! I love how God is bringing us people from outside the state of New York! On Tuesday I spoke at Furman University at FCA and we now have a couple applying from there!! I’m SO excited about what God is doing! One girl from Texas was really on my heart on Tuesday and I was praying for her and just asking the Lord if we could have her for C@mpus T@rget. When I got home that night I had an e-mail from her saying that she really felt like the Lord was calling her to come with us this August and she was sending in her application! God’s heart is so to send more and more laborers to Ch!na! Thank you for your prayers!!
holli cherie cobb
