Summer LINK Clemson: Week 7

We went contra dancing again last night at River Falls. Ryan, Kystral, Jon and Savannah all came so we had the whole group together this time. It was a wonder how all of us made it the whole time. Half of us had a lock-in at the church with the youth and my b bro (birthday brother), Brock, managed to not sleep a lick Friday night. Also, this week was Emilyn’s birthday so we celebrated Wednesday night, followed up with some late night knockout in LJC.

We have been trying to focus a lot more on evangelism and living a life that naturally leans towards sharing the love we have found in Christ. Thursday we all went out around campus to the Hendrix Center, the Union, and the library. We would just go up and strike up conversations with people and attempt to share the gospel. We really tried to just to get to know people and hopefully make a contact to follow up with them rather than just preaching the gospel at them and leaving. It has been awesome in multiple ways even when we do get completely rejected sometimes. It has enabled us to grow in boldness in Christ, to learn how to just go up and strike up a gospel conversation with someone. It has also helped us to put words to the gospel, to be able to define and give words to your heart. Lastly, it has grown us together, especially the person you go paired with.

So we have been going through the Lord of the Rings trilogy together because there were a couple of C-linkers with a very deprived life up to this point, they had not seen any of the movies. We are hopefully going to finish up this week with the third movie and really achieve the full life some of us were missing out on. Overall, we have been able to hang out and grow very close to everyone in our Summer Link group. The community we have built has been so great and we have ended up hanging out multiple nights through the week even when have nothing planned or mandatory to attend. Red brought up in CP groups this week about being an Acts 2 church/body of believers: To do life together and keep each other accountable and to show the world the camaraderie of Jesus. They found everything in common just because of the bond of their Lord and Savior and that is something we have learned to do.

All our prayers go out to the rest of the Summer Link teams around the world.

Carson Fields

Summer LINK Clemson