December is the holiday season. We had so many different activities. The Christmas concert was great. I really love the music and how they displayed the movie about the Jesus in the background video.
During Christmas break, I signed for the Vision Conference in Baltimore from 12.28th to 1 1st. It was a great conference. One of my best friend Dancy who came to Columbus visit me went to the conference with me. We also had many other students went with us. There were around 30 students.
I felt impressed when we first arrived. There were so many international students all from different cities. After we checked in, they gave us our name tag and schedule. I signed up for Chinese track, so the schedule was in Chinese.
The conference started with a dinner. They will send us text message before each session. It will tell us when the meeting will be, where we will meet. We had 2 DC trips, so the text message even reminded us to bring our coats because we will leave for DC right after the morning sessions which is so sweet.
In Chinese track, they divided us into seekers group and believers group. We had our meeting separately in the morning sessions, but we will combine together as a bigger group in the night sessions. I was shocked in our first meeting. There were 2 American leaders in each table. Most of them can speak Chinese! In our table, one of the leaders has lived in China for 11 years. His Chinese is good, but the other leader’s Chinese is not that good, so we still use English during our discussions. Moreover, the worship teams are Americans, but they worship in Chinese and pray in Chinese. It’s my first time to see Americans sing Chinese worship song to God and even pray in Chinese! It’s amazing.
The most important part of the Vision Conference for me is that they introduced an App called GodTools which is a great app for helping people to share Gospel. It’s very easy to use and follow. You can choose different languages. They introduced this app to believers track but not to seekers track. In the evening session, they asked the believers to use this app to share Gospel with the seekers in your groups. I used this app shared the whole Gospel with my friend Dancy. It was actually my first time to share the full Gospel with her. She asked me many questions and we talked more than 1 hour. I answered her questions and we followed the app. It was a wonderful experience. Although she didn’t choose to believe Jesus yet, she knew Jesus and what He had done for her.
There was another good memory that I shared how my boss Mr. Taylor shared his faith in Christ through his work and company to a person I just met on the way from DC back to Baltimore. She was so touched by the faith of my boss and we shared many things during that short time.
In conclusion, the Vision Conference was a great time for me to know many new students, built the relationship with them and share my faith with them.