The weather is changing - the sun is finally showing it’s face and the chill is starting to leave the air.  Along with the weather change tends to come a period during the year where students are out and about more on campus and even more willing to talk with us!  Please pray with us for that reality and for not only conversations to be had, but for relationships to be built.

Just yesterday on campus Sarah Love, Halley, and I got so sit with a group of three girls.  We got into some good discussion, but left the conversation all feeling a little sad.  There was one girl in particular who had absolutely  no hope for what her future would hold.  She pretty much thought she was here to live and then die - without any purpose!  She did ask us one question though, “Did faith find you or did you find faith?”.

As the three of us sat around afterwards and prayed and talked about those girls we realized that in some small way, we were faith going to find those girls.  Who knows what they had to say to each other after we left them?  Who knows if the gospel will become real to them?  We can only pray for them and hope to meet with them soon again.  What we do know is that we took steps of faith to introduce ourselves to them, shared our stories with them, heard what they had to say, and will continue to pray for them as we do for every student on that campus.

Along with all the fun encounters we have as our time passes here in Salerno, there are also days like yesterday - days that leave you with a pit in your stomach just wishing that the truth of the gospel would be clear to everyone.  All we can do is be faithful to carry the gospel with us in this city and on that campus while praying for eyes to be opened and lives to be changed.

Thanks for joining us on this journey.  We covet your prayers as we seek to do what we’ve been called here for.

-Amanda