Saturday afternoon at our Crossroads student conference, I(Scott) stood at the door of our STINT (Short-term International) seminar welcoming students and helping them make sure they were in the right place. A tall, dark-haired young man with a soccer jersey on and a backpack, sauntered up to the doorway and looked at me with a smile.
“Hey, I remember you! We had a conversation at the last conference.”
“Hi!” I returned. “Oh, yeah?” A little embarrassed I couldn’t immediately place him.
“You used to be an engineer, right?” he continued. “I’m an engineering student and you shared your story.” He knew too much. We’d obviously had a conversation. I observed his name tag at this point and his name was familiar to me. Matt M—–. This guy must have gone on Summer Mission with us? So it must have been at our Radiate conference last January, when I co-led a seminar on Summer Missions for the students.
“Oh! Was it at the Radiate Conference when we gave the summer missions seminar?”
“Yeah, that was it! I ended up helping lead the summer mission to Whitestone last summer!” All the pieces finally came together! Whitestone is one of our summer missions in the Middle East. That’s where I’d seen his name! Matt ended up going and helping to lead last minute.
“Yes, I remember you! Wow! That’s so cool!”
Matt was entering that seminar considering taking a year after graduation, to serve with Cru reaching college students in the Middle East for an entire year! Who knew how god would use a simple conversation, and a simple story like mine, in the life of a young college student!