Twenty-six students and leaders participated in the Magabook Program this past summer, visiting homes in the area to make attractive books by Ellen White available while witnessing in neighborhoods. Sixteen of the students and leaders were from Southern California churches.
Along with distributing 13,820 books, the team brought back more than 200 Bible study interests. From their sales of $96,592, the students earned scholarships totaling more than $60,000. The most exciting part of this summer was watching young people fall in love with, and grow in a personal relationship with, Jesus.
John Westbrook, director, Student Literature Program
Sharing God’s Character: A personal experience by Kaytlin Crawford
While going door-to-door, I met a man in his early 20s. I introduced myself as a Christian student and began to talk with him about the book Peace Above the Storm (Steps to Christ), because he said he was under a lot of stress.
He then asked, “Does the Bible talk about Jesus as a child?” I told him yes and showed him where to find it in his Bible. He said he was so happy to have an answer to that question. “No one ever had an answer for me about that since I was a child.”
I then canvassed him on He Taught Love (Christ’s Object Lessons) and he asked me what the parables were about. When I told him about the prodigal son, he said he didn't understand what it represented. So I explained that it was about how the father didn't care about what the son had done, he just wanted him to come home. He looked really sad and said that God wouldn't want him back after everything he had done. I told him that God hates the sin, not sinners, and that he could never do anything so bad that God wouldn't want him to come home. He ended up getting Peace above the Storm and said he couldn't wait to read it. It was a powerful experience for me because the parable of the prodigal son had never been so clear to me before. I had gotten to share God's character and in so doing it helped remind me of who God is.
