After speaking at the Christian Union meeting, I strolled through the town to the student flat where I was to spend the night. Later that evening, with the CU president, I helped as a post graduate student from China become a Christian. Students and others in both English universities where he had studied had befriended him and shared the gospel. I just happened to be there, like a midwife, at the time when he was ready to be born again.
Before we broke up, I suggested the CU president lead us in prayer, which he did ... in fluent Chinese! Not a miracle, just a lot of hard work. Chinese is his degree subject: we had met before in China where part of his course was spent in a university in Beijing! I hope that he will soon be working in China, and living for Jesus there.
Some months earlier I had spoken at the same university at a party for international students. As I chatted to a Japanese19 year-old, he showed me the charm he carried for protection. I told him that the God who made everything loved him. He was stunned. 'You mean there is a God who is interested in me?' he asked. He joined a 'Discovering Christianity' group which some Christian students were running. One of those British students, now graduated, is in Moldova, pioneering Christian student work there, and keeping in touch with Japanese friends through e-mail.
