GT Crossroads - students, staff and great summer adventures

Georgia Tech students work hard during the school year. Not surprisingly, they like to take on exciting and challenging ventures during their summers. You can find Tech students in the top paid internships at international companies like Volvo. Many students are studying and touring Europe or Australia.

GT Crossroads staff member, Greg Ashworth, lead a team of students for a six week summer mission project to Sarajevo, Bosnia. Our ministry adopted the University of Sarajevo ten years with the goal of planting an indigenous student movement. Ten years in to this very challenging endeavor we are happy to report that God is doing great things in Sarajevo. 

Darin McKenna, a Crossroads student leader, recently sent me a Bosnia summer mission project update. Here is how he summarized their activities:

 We met over 130 students from the University of Sarajevo. The entire Gospel was shared no less than 80 times in our 5 weeks there. We are connecting around 30 students to the long-term staff of Svaki Student in Sarajevo. We were able to serve the long-term staff by:planning a weekly meeting for them, baby-sit their children, plan events (such as a cookout, rafting trip, soccer day, girls party, and a talent show) for the organization, and beef up their numbers for a real game of ultimate frisbee (since Bosnians are soccer purists...). We attempted to serve at an orphanage (it fell through due to the insane amount of paper work and barriers they put up for us). Our goodbye party had around 30+ people, which was a surprise because of the large rainstorm that happened right before it started.

Greg, Darin and the entire team did a great job in Sarajevo this summer. I cannot wait to hear more of the stories of the students they met and the many conversations that they had about Christ. God clearly was at work leading them to the right people and using them to share Christ' love and the Gospel. 

A story from Darin:

  Once during the trip, a lady who worked at the Copy Shop down the road from the student house saw what our leader (Greg) was printing. She asked if he was a Christian. When he replied "Yes," she said "Then who is this Jesus and how do I have a relationship with him?" She started working at that copy shop only days before we arrived in Sarajevo and stopped a week before we left.

   

As we plan and raise funds for the Fall at Tech, we are encouraged once again by the potential for impact that the students here at Tech have when they "get out" for the summer or for good!

Tech people in Bosnia this summer! Darin (Left in Blue shirt, Greg is slightly on the right at the back of the table.