Well.....today was a good day to be a Newfy..I woke up this morning to hear the sounds of city buses and students littering the streets as I try to find the coffee lol..I woke up and went venturing through town to Church Hill Square where I met Jeremy who then graciously took me to the airport to pick up a lost piece of luggage, thanks to the craziness at customs in Toronto LOL.
Today Gwen and I got showed around downtown by Steve, our awesome summer pastor. He showed us all the HOT places of St. John's which was interesting. We went to Signal Hill which is known for making the first transatlantic transmission back in like 1901. Also we learned that the Titanic is only like 300 hundred miles away from us, which is kinda cool to think about. What was interesting was the change in people. Here in the heart of St. John's near the University people are very European and just "Canadian" but as soon as you head downtown and toward's the fishing villages it feels as if we go back in time a hundred years. The people are very Scottish and Irish, lots of local folk music and drinking...it was interesting to see these old fishermen on their decks drinking and just talking about their days at sea or doing whatever they did that morning, it was truly something to behold. Afterwards we came back to MUN and enjoy a "ghetto" style dinner composed of nachos, cereal, and easy mac as we talked about our day and what we planned for the rest of this week and as we enjoyed a few episodes of the office on my laptop....Good times! :) That all may seem fun and sound great, but there are alot of problems here.....only 6.6% of the entire population are evangelical...almost 5,000 out of the 15,000 students here at MUN don't even believe in a sense of a "God". Today I think I started to get a grip on the idea that the Gospel is LACKING here and God has definitely put Gwen and I along with Steve, Adam and their families here for that reason.
I am excited to see how God works through us and the relationships we build with the students and the locals of the island and how the Gospel will affect the lives of these individuals. Tomorrow we are meeting up with a guy named Mark Puckett, I have no idea who he is lol, but it should be great! Constantly pray for the people here of St. John and pray for their salvation mostly. Pray that God would divinely set up appointments for us to get the chance to share the Gospel and the beauty and majesty of it. God is truly good and sovereign and His Word is the same, for God's Word will never return void. ................OH YEA...interesting fact, the motto of Newfoundland is "Quaerite prime regnum Dei" which means "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God" I think this is ironic and alittle sad when looking at the staggering numbers of evangelicals here on the island.
Goodnight, and God Bless!!!! (there will be more to come)
-Solia Scriptura
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