Donald's Legacy

Coming into his second year, Donald was walking down the hallways of SFU thinking about what it means to be a witness on the SFU Campus.  He then looked up and saw a table set up in the hallway of the AQ and three guys sitting behind a table.  Looking at the sign, he realized that it was IVCF, an organization his friend from church was telling him about.  Without thinking he proceeds to sign up for this group.  Little did he know though that this was IVCF's Pioneering year on SFU and that he would end up starting a movement that continues to this day.

I remember sitting with Donald at Pearl Fever waiting to extend two fairly large invitations.  The first invitation was for him to fully invest in IVCF (he was jumping between two ministries at that time) and to be mentored by me, while the second one was for him to come on the China GP with me.  As I gave this first invitation, he sat there, looking down for a few seconds thinking.  He then raised his head and said a simple, "Ok".  I was surprised and excited at the same time at the quickness of his response.  But if the first invitation wasn't daunting enough, I'm sure the second one would scare him off.  So I went ahead and asked him the second invitation, "Come to China with me."  Now this one took a bit longer and was indeed more daunting but after months of prayer and discernment, he decided to come.

Since Donald was coming to China with me, he was also required to come to Mark West (in Alberta at this time).  Donald didn't want to go to Mark West by himself so he decided to ask his Brother Daniel to come with him.  To his surprise, Daniel said "Yes".  Daniel had never been a part of any IVCF stuff but he decided to come, spending $400 of his own money to study the bible for 40 hours.  By the end of Mark West, both Donald and Daniel were committed to the ministry of IVCF and they proceeded to invite their peers and friends.   After China, Donald decided to take a year break in Edmonton before transferring to BCIT for Engineering.  He is now finishing up his last semester and is engaged to be married in August.

The following year, Daniel continued to be a part of our leadership team and constantly invited his church friends and the people he met.  From Daniel, and his help in pioneering IVCF SFU Surrey, he connected with Esther, Catherine, and Andy.  From Daniel, he found and passed off an incredible vision of witness to his friends and peers.  To this day, Esther has been the source of incredible life and invitation in our community, Catherine is now leading as our student president in beginning of an incredible movement of evangelism and witness and Andy is witnessing on the Varsity Track team of SFU.

What will happen after Catherine and Andy move on?  I don't know, but what I do know is that they see the importance of building a legacy and I trust in God's work through them that they will train and empower the next generation of students to take their place in this ministry of SFU.