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Hey friends, it’s Abdu, and I’m eager to give you this month’s update about what’s going on with our ministry, especially in light of all that’s been happening around the world and especially here at home in America with the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
I’ve already spoken about this in a three-minute video that’s on my Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter accounts, which are linked below. That video, about three minutes long, as I said, has already garnered quite a bit of attention, and I won’t belabor the points there—except to say that I think it really reorients us to the need for a Christian worldview.
I wrote an article for the Colson Center as part of their Breakpoint program entitled “When Cancel Culture Levels Up to Assassination Culture.” I wrote that six days before Charlie Kirk’s assassination, chronicling how we’re going from a mere cancellation culture to this brutality of assassination culture and what to do about it.
Now, a lot of you have asked for the Q&A portion of the event I did at Times Square Church, and I’m happy to say that we’ve linked that as well for you. Be sure to check out that Q&A with some really great and thoughtful questions.
We also have something for you that is a little different. It’s a dialogue between me and Fred Stella. Fred Stella is a former Catholic who became a Hindu, and we met at a church in Chicago and talked about the differences between our faiths in a dialogue format. It wasn’t a debate, but a dialogue. That video already has more than 32,000 views—but more importantly, it has 1,200 comments on our YouTube channel, which means it’s an engaging video and getting a lot of people to talk about the differences in worldview. I encourage you to take a look, and maybe you can comment as well.
I want to remind you as well that you can subscribe to our YouTube channel. A lot of you view our content but you’re not subscribed. And if you are subscribed to our YouTube channel and you hit the notification bell, you’ll get notified whenever a new video comes on our channel. You can see it immediately and maybe even join in on the conversation. We’d love for you to do that.
I also want to talk about some exciting ministry we’ve already had. In addition to equipping you, we want to inform you about what we’ve been doing. I just got back about 10 days ago from Argentina after some really great ministry there. We went to Buenos Aires, which is the big city there in Argentina and the home of the University of Buenos Aires. We had a bunch of different events across different kinds of venues—more of an exploratory trip to find out what’s going on there and how Embrace the Truth can help.
We spoke with scholars, we spoke with students, and we spoke at churches as well. There was just a tremendous buzz around the activities happening in light of the ministry that we do, where we answer people, not just questions. People got saved—it was wonderful. People gave their lives to the Lord. People were informed and encouraged about how they can reach out to their communities and the university with the gospel message.
We’re planning to do an event next year at the University of Buenos Aires—a much bigger event, a much bigger venue, at a university that boasts 250,000 people within their student body. This is an influential university for us to be reaching.
Now, in light of what happened with Charlie Kirk, one might be tempted to say, “Given the dangers and the risks, shouldn’t we just step back from campus ministry? Take a pause and ask, is it really worth it?” I can tell you right now, friends, my resolve to do campus ministry has never been stronger. In fact, it’s been inflamed. It’s been fired up ever since what happened, because these are the places where the gospel message is so needed—and these students need and want the gospel message, even if they don’t know it yet.
So we’re going to Harvard, we’re going to MIT, we’re going to Laurentian University, and we’re going to other places all around the country. Because these challenging venues are the places where Embrace the Truth is called.
Now, if you think that the work we do is valuable—whether you’re informed by the resources in the links in this email, or whether you think the kind of work we do to go to places we thought we couldn’t go, to say things we thought we couldn’t say, to people we thought wouldn’t listen—if you think that kind of work is valuable, would you consider giving a gift to keep this kind of ministry going?
It’s your prayers, your support, and your financial giving that make this ministry possible. We’re so grateful for you standing alongside us. We hope you’re blessed by the resources and encouraged as well. God bless you.
