My collegue and I stepped in the lobby area of the Law Faculty of Eötvös Lóránd University with the intentions of taking pictures and shoot video of an event that happens every year in the life of the Hungarian ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ, Timóteus Társaság (Timothy Society - TT). Long hours of envisioning, planning, prayer and preparation of dedicated staff and students, goes into making this a life changing event every year. It is an outreach that reflects the heart of CCC's passion in ministry: Reaching College and University students with the message of truth.
I have never been to one of these, so called, "Survival Kit" distributions before, but I have heard that God uses these events to "fuel" a year - or more - of ministry for TT. It is a time when many christian students emerge from various universities and denominations to help out with the distribution to reach their peers for Christ. It is a time when first year students meet TT and get a chance to get in contact with christians, get involved in weekly meetings, Bible studies, even meet staff in personal appointments.
It is when Campus Ministry goes fishing with the largest of fishnets!
Despite my greatest intensions, the guard walked up to me and my american collegue Jim and said "You cannot come in here with cameras. You are not allowed to take pictures! For that you need permission. Do you have permission?" We did not. I asked him where we could get them from and he was kind enough to tell me. With one of the law school student's help we had permission to take all the pictures and video we wanted in a matter of 5 minutes. I was a bit surprised by the fact that we still needed to get permission to document our own event, but praised God we were able to minister to TT with pictures and video. Please pray for the TT staff and students for wisdom and strength in reaching out as well as the many lost students, who are interested in hearing more about God.
Some statistics:
About 8,000 Survival Kits were handed out with about 1,350 positive responses from students who are interested about God.
You can see some of the photos I took on The Forge picture site.
