I am grateful to be part of SMI this summer of 2016. Although outreach has only begun, I am having an interesting experience. Currently, I am still struggling a little bit in understanding how to share these words that I bring: the Gospel. I am supposed to believe that the message that I have is the one that should bring solution to the people I have come to meet in North Philadelphia, but the more I talk to the people daily and see the hurt and struggles that run deep in them, it becomes harder to share. It is not that the word of God is not the solution or that it has lost its power, but to truly impact the word of God on a broken person (someone that has been hurt repeatedly), I have to be true to the situation as much as possible. I am learning to be true to the situation I see because successful outreach might be impossible by just being scripted. I am praying that the Lord will have his way in the lives of the people like He’s done before.
-Jennifer Azubuike