Last Tuesday was officially our first day back
to work at the campus. I couldn’t be with the guys that day; however I heard lots
of great things from them. A serious problem in our campus is to schedule
events for we have some difficulties to book some areas in the campus and have access all equipments required. On this Tuesday, our friends got the
permission to spread informations about our student movement freely at the main
hall of the campus. They said it was almost unbelievable, because we have
always experienced big difficulties in our previous attempts during the last
semesters. Christian students from other campuses came to help us to share
about our group and welcome the freshmen students. Our strategy was identifying
visually the freshmen, approaching them, and after welcoming and congratulating
them for passing the exams we asked them if we could take a picture of
each of them using a face-holed poster board decorated with a painting of
Einstein and other characters. We would send the picture to the student through
e-mail so that they would have a funny and different remark of their first
moment at the University. I was told that in the first day many students
accepted to take a picture with the hole-faced poster, and thus we cold get
their contacts to send the picture and more other information about our group activities. 
In our second day we met fewer students, maybe because that was the last day
for them to enroll in the subjects of their courses. However, we had a great
time, talking to them, explaining about our movement and taking funny pictures
of them. We didn’t have any problems about doing the reception in the main
hall, thank God! And it wasn’t even needed to talk to any department or so,
they have already allowed us to do our activity! Amazing! We had spent some
minutes praying about it before starting the reception and God answered us in a
very unexplainable way.
All I can say is that our year at the campus has started in a very positive
way. I’m so glad about how God has increased this desire inside the Christian students
of our local movement. They yearn to spread the love of God more than ever. They’ve
been surprising me day by day with new creative ideas and challenging plans. I’m
sure they had a great time in Foz do Iguaçu Summer Project, last January, as well as I did in Italy.
Now, we must get ready for the classes back on March, 5th and all
the stuff we planned to spread our movement to the new students. Pray for us!
Greater things are yet to come #webelieve!
Sam
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