Last fall the Mars Hill Ballard Community Groups met each Sunday for about three months for some leadership training (Fall Bootcamp).  One of the many great takeaways from the training was making goals for everyone in our groups to pray for the salvation of the non-Christians in our circle of influence and for our groups to grow.  Everyone in my Community Group committed to praying for the salvation of three people, so with the twelve of us we were praying for thirty-six people.

One of the non-Christians on our list was also brought up one week as a specific prayer request, so I committed to praying for his salvation that week.  By God’s Sovereign grace, not only did he ask me to become his friend on Facebook that week, giving me an opportunity to let him know that I was praying for him, but another group member, Matt, went through Campus Crusade’s Four Spiritual Laws book with him as an opportunity to share the gospel.

I am overjoyed to share with you that to our joy, his salvation, and God’s glory he did become a Christian, for according to Romans 1:16, “[the gospel] is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes.”  Since then he has joined our Community Group, attends Mars Hill, and just two weeks ago he shared his testimony with our group.  Since becoming a Christian and being saved by Jesus, he has been saved from homosexuality, drug addiction, and has seen much fruit and growth in his struggle against his former porn addiction.

I want to encourage you, Mars Hill, that Jesus is alive and well, he is hearing our prayers, and he is at work in this city.

~Travis
Travis is a Community Group leader in the Phinney Ridge Neighborhood