{"id":9415,"date":"2019-10-15T13:35:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T13:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/?post_type=prayerline&#038;p=9415"},"modified":"2019-11-11T16:35:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T16:35:46","slug":"when-you-dont-know-any-other-christians-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"prayerline","link":"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/en\/prayerline\/when-you-dont-know-any-other-christians-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"When you don\u2019t know any other Christians on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block block-core-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"has-md-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen I mentioned I was a Christian, they turned on me, telling\nme the Bible was a book of lies and saying that I was a judgemental idiot. They\ndidn\u2019t care what I had to say.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caroline studies art and design in Northern Ireland. She\ndoesn\u2019t know any other Christians on her campus. It can be a hostile environment.\nWhen difficult moral or ethical issues come up in class, she doesn\u2019t have any\nChristian friends to turn to for support.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s why Caroline has decided to start a Christian group\non campus, with the support of CUI, the IFES movement in Ireland. She\u2019s already\nmet with the college authorities and has set up social media pages for the new\ngroup. She would love to start reading the Bible with interested seekers. But\nit\u2019s hard ground. Even after setting up a stand in the foyer to raise\nawareness, only one student has come forward to join Caroline.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-heading\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">She asked us to pray:<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-list\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Pray that the hearts of non-Christians will be\nopen to God\u2019s Word.<\/li><li>Pray that the Christian Union will grow and\nflourish so that together, in Christ, we can make an impact on campus.<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":9416,"template":"","area":[458,566],"theme":[1214],"class_list":["post-9415","prayerline","type-prayerline","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","area-europe","area-united-kingdom","theme-pioneering"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>When you don\u2019t know any other Christians on campus &#183; IFES Prayerline<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cWhen I mentioned I was a Christian, they turned on me, telling me the Bible was a book of lies and saying that I was a judgemental idiot. 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