Alongside

Making disciples of Jesus among college students is exciting, to see young lives being transformed, to see them grow and mature, to watch them walking with Jesus and start fishing for men, there is nothing more exhilarating than that. But the sad part is that it is short lived, we get them for a short period of three to four years and they graduate and move on, sometimes staying connected but often clueless on how to plug back in. Then we start all over again with new students, the whole process of evangelism and discipleship and repeat that cycle, often wondering are we making an impact, is it really worth it? It was few years ago I met this man in an unexpected way and as he introduced himself to me he said that he was looking for a staff who had discipled him as a student. That particular staff had left the movement and moved on to another city and had gone on to become a pastor by then. But I was keen to hear more about his story so I probed further. He said that he was ...

The past three and half years has been an exhilarating roller-coaster ride for the eleven. Called from their routine, mundane and ordinary life to an exciting adventure of a life time which they had never imagined in their wildest dreams when they decided to obey and follow this extraordinary Man and His call. They had been with Jesus, following Him everywhere He went, listening to him speaking words of life, watching Him healing the blind, the lame and the demon possessed, raising the dead and calming the storm.  One thing was clear in their minds; He was the promised messiah, the eagerly awaited King of the Jews, a descendant of their great and beloved king David. They genuinely expected Jesus to restore the Kingdom and to establish His rule. But the last few weeks of those three and half years had been really confusing for them, their expectations were shattered, their dream of a kingdom lay in ruins, they were on the run, terrified and lost. Their master was caught, b...