A Letter from one of our Members and Xpansion Partners, Asia Johnson.
I want to thank Summit Church for supporting me in Chi Alpha this past year and the impact you have had on my life. I have been going to Summit since I was 17 years old and I am so grateful you are my home church.
I did a lot in Chi Alpha at FGCU this past year including leading a small group and even introducing a student to the Lord! We had large group on a weekly basis and fellowship events every Friday where many students would come to hang out with us on the library lawn. We started a prayer movement where we prayed for revival on the campus every Tuesday and Thursday at 4pm.
We also had a Pioneer Bootcamp training, where we learned how to start a Chi Alpha at a different campus and a Discover the Nations training, where we learned how to share Christ with international students. Both of these trainings are national trainings in Chi Alpha where they came down to Fort Myers to train us.
We took two different mission trips during spring break, one in Puerto Rico and the other at Florida State University. I had the privilege to co-lead the trip to FSU where we worked with the Chi Alpha directors there to train their upcoming student leaders in evangelism. On this particular trip, we brought a student with us named Grace. She struggled and had a lot of fear towards sharing Christ with others. But by the end of the trip, she was regularly engaging with students and sharing scripture with them. It was amazing to see her transformation in just a week!
I got to lead this young lady to the Lord!
I learned so much personally this past year. I took many Biblical classes and courses, grew a lot in character, and learned how to be less focused on myself and more focused on others. I learned how to serve and encourage others well. God taught me how to love others well with His love working through me and now I have an even bigger desire to fulfill the Great Commission.
As my internship at Chi Alpha has been coming to a close, I applied and was accepted to a gospel-centered film ministry called Moving Works. I have a degree in advertising, which will help me with this internship position. I also have a desire to one day become one of their filmmakers and that is why I am going to go to film school part-time as well.
Before I rededicated my life to the Lord four years ago, I wanted to use my God-given talents and passion for my own glory. I was even planning on going to New York to do so. God recaptured my heart and I rededicated my life to Him. Shortly afterwards I went on my first mission trip to Haiti with Summit where God told me I was going to be a missionary one day. I went through a season of growth where I learned how to surrender my life to the Lord in Recovery and then went through this internship with Chi Alpha to be equipped to be a missionary.
It’s amazing how God has brought me full circle to be able to use my talents and passion for His glory now. It’s truly only a story that He can write.
-Asia Johnson
Asia is raising support to serve with Moving Works, a film company that produces gospel-centered films for global audiences including Japan, Germany and the Czech Republic. If you would like to support her, you can contact her directly at asiadanielle111@gmail.com.
To find out more about the Moving Works, visit https://movingworks.org/