Campfire Praise!
With the start of a new autumn semester at the university, our team has been busy reaching out to new students and visiting professors. A recent campfire outreach event at Picnic Point turned into a spontaneous praise set, as internationals seemed to highly enjoy singing praise and worship songs. I expected to pull out my guitar and sing 3 or 4 songs, but eventually we had sung every one of the 12 songs on our printed songsheets - and some more than once! Even those who are not yet believers in Christ seemed excited to sing songs with us. Often internationals will tell us that, although they may not be Christians, they genuinely enjoy singing songs about God. Many cite a 'good feeling' that they receive from singing praise songs. It seems the Holy Spirit is at work, inhabiting the praises of His people and touching hearts and minds...