First days @ Mizzou

I'm currently sitting in a little coffee shop in downtown Columbia, MO right next to Mizzou, the campus where we are planting a new chapter. There are over 25k students at Mizzou and not many of them know Christ. This past weekend I spent two whole days hanging out with students in AAA (MU's Asian American Association) and volunteering with their Unificasian (Unification & Asian -- clever huh?) event that helps to connect Asian minorities to each other in the huge rush of incoming freshmen the school sees every year.
I met a bunch of great people and we had many sign up to come to our Bible Study that InterVarsity recently started here with the help of IV volunteer Andrew Moon (a philosophy grad student). Many who signed up aren't Christian but ARE very much interested in learning about Jesus and what the Bible / Christianity is really all about. It's amazing to see such openness in them, especially considering that not far from this coffee shop today an old school 'evangelist' named Brother Jed is bringing the 'fire and brimstone' message. I am blown away that despite that the Holy Spirit is moving in people around the campus that I have met who honestly want to know Jesus. One guy named Wataro the other day who opened up to me about his spiritual journey and how he almost became a Christian before learning that I worked with InterVarsity- then he said "wow, it must have been fate that I ran into you because I don't normally talk about faith and spirituality".
Please continue to pray as we have our first GiG tonight of the semester (GiG = Group investigating God -- a Bible Study for non-believers). Thanks!