Fifty-eight other college students
from around the nation and I have been on a summer project with Campus Crusade
for Christ at Walt Disney World for the past seven weeks. People frequently ask what the purpose of this
project is and how I could feel morally okay with the fact that I’m asking for
money from people to work at Walt Disney World for the summer. In the simplest form, the purpose of this
project is to spread the Gospel to people who don’t know or believe it. The term, “The Gospel” gets thrown around
thoughtlessly sometimes. The Gospel that
I am trying to present to my coworkers here in Walt Disney World is that God
loves us each personally so much that he would send his son, Jesus, to die for
us so that we would not be separated from Him forever because of our sins. He’s saved us because he loves us and I know
that prior to this project I took that for granted.
There is a thriving college program
that works with Disney World that is not associated with Campus Crusade for
Christ. This is huge group of
students/Disney World cast members who are comprised of young people from many
nations all over the world. This project
is geared very much towards the international college students that come to the
United States to work at Walt Disney World.
I work in the Outdoor Foods
department in the Magic Kingdom. Some of
my coworkers are from France, Haiti, Morocco, Puerto Rico, Turkey, China, and
Australia. Over the last seven weeks I
have had the opportunity to share how God has changed my life with His eternal love
and grace. I recognize how cliché that
may sound, but we as Americans are spiritually spoiled with how accessible the truth
of the Gospel is to us. This is
knowledge that we have no right in hoarding.
God is alive, well, and working. Before this project, I thought of him largely
as a dormant volcano or a sleeping giant, but this is not who God is. I have woken up to the reality that God is at
work and the harvest is absolutely plentiful.
What has surprised me the most so far on this trip is how hungry people
are for God. They don’t even know this
until you lay out to them who God is and what He does/has done in your
life. But they desire this much more
than I had anticipated. They are not at
all in need of religion or rules or a new mask to put on. They need who God is. I need who God is. It’s this beautiful, reality-shifting
realization that I get the privilege of being a part of in other people’s lives
here at Walt Disney World.
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