March 20th, 2009
Vol 1, Issue 3
Story of the Week
"The God of Heaven will give us sucess. 
Therefore, we His servants will arise and build."  Nehemiah 2:20

Greetings!
    In a coordinated effort with Biola University's 80th Annual Missions Conference, CSP led Biola students to local high schools to share the love of Christ. 

   They asked high school students to take the "3:16 Challenge," a survey CSP designed to gauge basic Gospel literacy among youth today.

(pictured right: CSP Leaders Cassi and Jesse with the "3:16 Challenge" survey)

What if you never heard?
Huge Need Revealed: 
 Over 40% of Students Had Never Heard!
We surveyed 115 students on Wednesday.  Of these, 47 students (41%) said they had never heard John 3:16. Moreover, 62% said no one had ever taken the time to explain it to them!

These statistics are comparable to previous surveys we have  taken.  If these are even close to an accurate representation of the general population, an alarming conclusion could be drawn. There may be 250,000 high school students in Los Angeles today who have never heard the most basic verse in the Bible!

Biola covered the iconic "Jesus Mural" with a banner reading, "What if you never heard? ...2 Billion Haven't."   People who haven't heard the Gospel aren't only overseas. Many of them are in our own backyard!
Most Students Wanted to Know More and
5 Students Made Decisions for Christ!
Sam shares about leading students to Christ After taking the survey, students were asked if they'd like to learn more about knowing God personally. 
70 students said they were interested and heard the Gospel message message that day!

5 of these students prayed to recieve Christ.
Sam, pictured right, led 2 of these students to the Lord.   Click here to hear Sam tell the story!
What will happen if we allow nearly half of America's next generation to grow up without hearing the message of Christ?  What would happen if they all could hear?

Thank you for your partnership in sharing His message!

Mark Hopson
California School Project

P.S.   Students at 2 high schools are hosting evangelistic rallies next week!  Please remember them in your prayers!
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