Introducing God is effectively being used to reach out to international guests with limited English.

New believer Korean Brad You committed himself to Christ for the first time on an ‘Introducing God weekend escape.’

Brad says he found a relationship with God has filled his deepest need.

“Without God it all means nothing. You just live yourself”, he says.

“It’s like an empty box. You try and fill the box with water, but it just goes down, it’s never gonna be filled up. You need God to fill up your box!”

The Introducing God hosts redecorated a side room of the Annandale church building, making it feel like a lounge.

In this relaxed, comfortable atmosphere, they read the Bible passage that the talk was based on, explaining any difficult words to their guests.

In most Introducing God courses the guests are encouraged to disagree with the presenter as vehemently as they like.

But in this easy-English group, the guests were very keen to find out what the Bible actually said.

Hosts like Haydn Sennitt used the notes in the Introducing God booklet, and the illustrations used in Dominic Steele's DVD presentation, to review and reinforce what had been said.

“You can put things in their terms”, he says.

“It was a very good exercise in communication. Using Introducing God we explained things in a way that wasn’t full of jargon and too high brow. They did get it!”

The group spent a weekend in a house a few hours out of town.

“We were able to get to know each other really well”, says Haydn. “It was very good to relate on a much deeper level.”
 

Kamal Weerakoon