It started with five or six people, most of them family, gathered around a small conversation about Jesus.

A young woman had just finished evangelist training through the Texas District and learned when a spiritual conversation was welcome, and who in her life was quietly waiting for one. She teamed up with her sister and cousin, who’d trained alongside her, and the three of them decided to build something of their own: a weekly Bible study.

They kept it simple at first. A friend here, a neighbor there, a coworker who seemed curious. Slowly, the circle widened. And instead of retreating to a church basement, they chose pizza restaurants, coffee shops, an ice cream parlor, but it had to be public. That wasn’t an accident! A passage that warns against being a “secret disciple” and calls believers to live their faith in the open. For this group, that’s the whole point: faith isn’t something whispered in private.

A story of how God is working through this group of young people is a girl who’d been coming to the study for about a year, from a family that believed in God but never really practiced anything. She took what she’d learned home with her. Now her whole family sits together in the living room, reads a chapter a day, and talks about it. One small study had multiplied itself.

That’s the goal, really. Not a packed room, but people who leave and start something of their own.

When asked about the training, they say it was about letting God fill their own hearts first, then letting that spill outward.

By the end, a stranger’s comment lingers over everything: “We don’t see this very often, but we need more of this.”

They agree. And they’re not finished yet.

“My strength comes from God,” one of them says, “and only He has got me to the point where I am right now.”

Watch the video of this faith story at https://youtu.be/rrMWJrollMY?si=5kK2sxdfYmIs_XJ4