This semester, God opened doors to grow Free Lunch, reserving all three Galaxy rooms, allowing us to have the capacity for 300 students. Most weeks, we have been having well over 300 students and volunteers, and many gospel conversations have happened during this weekly lunch. If you would like to volunteer at Free Lunch with us next semester and be part of what God is doing there, feel free to email us and attend our training on Jan. 5, 2018 - bsm.utdallas@gmail.com
Here is a glimpse of what God is doing through this outreach!
“One of the clearest ways I’ve seen God work this semester has been in my relationship with an international student from India named D*. I first met D* at Free Lunch – he didn’t talk very much initially, but about halfway through lunch, a vocal atheist came and sat at our table. This atheist quickly began asking really deep and challenging questions related to Christianity with a particular focus on heaven. It was a rare and exciting experience. We wound up talking for over two hours, and D* quietly tagged along to listen to our conversation. The next week, D* sat at my Free Lunch table again, and we talked for another two hours about the previous week’s discussion. He continued coming to my table week after week, allowing me to share the gospel with him and discuss all sorts of topics, spiritual and non-spiritual, that he had questions about. Darshan recently came to the BSM’s Wednesday night Bible study for the first time, and he’s expressed interest in coming again. He’s also started reading C.S. Lewis’ “Mere Christianity” because of a C.S. Lewis quote in the Free Lunch questions. Though D* hasn’t made any commitment yet, it’s been amazing to see the way that God’s words have resonated with him – it looks very much like a sheep hearing the voice of the shepherd for the first time.”
By Brian Bell, Sophomore Math/Computer Science Major from Sugar Land