Walking by Faith

This is a link to a video that shares the campus outreach story in many ways. It also talks about how our daily single and individual decisions can shape and influence others and change the world for Christ! If you are a supporter I would challenge you to watch this to be encouraged and inspired of how you are affecting God's kindgom!

A Single Decision

This is like a book promotion I guess but also just to let you in on a few things I am learning personally!

I recently read this book and did the 11 week Bible Study along with it with my friend Hayley. It has strengthened my walk with God in so many ways and I would definetly recommend it if you are interested! The chapters are only a few pages long so it doesn't take up to much time. I found it on amazon.com for 1 cent!

The book takes it's title from some men who went up to Peter at a crowded feast and said , "Sir we just want to see Jesus."

No matter where we are in life this should be our desire! I like to underline the more meaningful passages and I found I was underlining the entire book. Each chapter of the book focuses on Jesus in different ways to show how he is the answer to our every need. The authors go straight to the heart of what is means to follow Jesus and seeing Him as all we need, as the truth, as the door, as the way, as the end and for others. Here are a few main things I pulled out from our study!

~Repentance and Refreshing! As I realize how quickly I drift away from God each day learning more about daily repenting to lead into a intimate time with him has been huge for me and is summed up in Acts 3:19 "therefore repent and return so that your sins may be wiped away in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord."
~I desperately need Jesus and nothing else. I need I think I have is truly met in him.
~Our "I AM" one of my favorite parts of the study was a study on the names of God such as jehovah jireh (my provider) jehovah shalon (my peace) jehovah shammah (God who is there or present) and jehovah roi (my shephard). There were more but it was so great to study scripture and really soak in all of the things that God IS!

A few of you have pointed out to me that I don't update the blog enough....I know I'm bad at this! haha. Please be patient with me I'm new at this! I will try to do a better job of updating it!

I am still a little less than half way to my total support goal. The economy has obviously slowed things down a bit! However I do believe that this is the dream God has given me and will press on until he provides the rest! Please continue to pray that I would meet more people who will partner with me! My new goal is to be at 100% by MAY when we begin our summer projects!

For me personally at NYC as I got to help (my main job was security! haha) and get to know students from South Alabama and Troy God just confirmed in my heart more than ever that this is where he has me and exactly what he wants me to be doing! It has refreshed and re-motivated me as I seek to share our ministry vision with others to see if they will join the support team! Since then I have also had the opportunity to spend some time with students in both Troy and South Alabama and am excited to be a small part of their lives and see how God is working!
Our next steps as a ministry are to focus on discipleship and evangelism for next semester with students on campus as well as to plan our summer projects including the summer beach project, mission trips to Thailand and Brazil as well as an internship at a inner city ministry in Montgomery called Common Ground. We will be sending college students out to these places this summer for awesome opportunities to grow in their relationship with God and influence others for Christ!
Students are just now beginning to make these decisions so we are praying for them!

New Year’s conference was wonderful!!  It was a time full of fun and learning for me personally.  It was so obvious that God was in Atlanta…He did many great things in the hearts of students, including bringing at least 5 students that I know of from South Alabama into His kingdom!!!  Please pray for Cody, Fede, Bridget, Savannah, and Amanda as they begin their new life in Him!!

So I can't really put a picture of my old wrecked car up because they took it away without me going back to see it BUT out with the old in with the new! The Lord provided this awesome car for an affordable price. It was the best deal I found just under what I could pay and it seems pretty reliable so far! There is no other way to describe it but as a gift from GOD!