Walking by Faith

This is a little out of order but I just found this pic on facebook of our Tacky Christmas Sweater Party (no offense to those who love Christmas sweaters)! We used this party to recruit for our New Year's Conference and were able to give away 2 half scholarships to the tackiest Christmas sweaters of all. I was super proud because earlier that day I took Shelby and Blair with me to goodwill to help them pick out their outfits and they tied for first place!!!

Campus Outreach, is a network of interdenominational ministries targeting strategic college campuses around the World. Hopefully you get a feel of our vision but more so that we are a ministry built on relationships! It is through these life-on-life relationships that college students come to know Christ, mature in their relationships with Him, and share their lives and faith with others through evangelism and discipleship.

The ministry of Campus Outreach doesn't end at graduation either. The success of our vision is measured best by the students who carry the vision of reaching the lost world with them after college. Our prayer is that alumni will continue to grow in their relationships with God, share their faith with the lost and continue the process of discipling others.

We are going to have 7 discipleship groups this semester with the believers involved in the ministry and we will be studying key components of the gospel and christianity. These include, Who is God, Man's nature, Christ and the gift of grace, dealing with sin and repentance, the word, prayer, personal witness...we are hoping and praying that God will use these groups and this semester to radically affect how we and our students walk with God and in a devoted relationship with Him. We want to teach ourselves and the students how to learn and go to God's word for everything and to be a disciple of Christ.

*The bible studies/discipleship groups-that students would grow in their relationship with God, knowledge of Him, and desire to labor in his kingdom.

*Our relationships with lost students. There are particularly two girls that I have had the opportunity to share the gospel with and am praying would come to know him. They are Erin and Emily.

*Me; I will be leading two of the groups. In some ways I wonder where I will have enough time. Please pray that I will be able to schedule well so that I don't get burnt out and overwhelmed.

*Our financial support. All of our staff including me have some monthly support to raise with a desire to be fully funded. I'm asking God for at least 4 new monthly partners in the next month! Please pray with me and let me know if you know of anyone who might enjoy this type of partnership and opportunity to invest.
Thanks so much for all you do I hope you are enjoying a start to the new year!!!!

Last semester several girls in Chi O (sorority) had the opportunity to share the gospel with Lacie. We all prayed for her throughout the semester especially when someone would get another opportunity to share with her or answer questions she had about christianity. Friday I received a text from one of the girls saying "we've been sharing the gospel with Lacie again for 2 hours please pray!" On Tuesay we found out that that day she decided to surrender her life to Christ! She came to our meeting and said "I gave it all to God." We have a new sister!

This is all of the South students that went with us to Conference!

I was recently reading a book entitled "Ordering your private world" with the rest of our staff by Gordan MacDonald....in it was this little paragraph on prayer which goes along with other things God is teaching me lately...thought i'd share....

"Until we believe that prayer indeed is a highly significant activity, that it does in fact reach beyond space and time to the God who is actually there, we will never aquire the habits of continual worship and intercession. In order to aquire these habits we must overcome the part of us that thinks that prayer is not a natural part of life."

This kind of goes along with one thing that God has challenged me with at our New Year's conference. Our theme for the conference was "Think Big. Start Small. Go Deep." As we heard about "thinking big" and I began to watch over the course of 4 days God work in big ways in so many hearts....I was very humbled by my lack of faith in God! Instead of asking God for one or two girls in the dorms to come to Christ and get involved with our ministry....do I not believe that God could do a work throughout the dorm? We had one girl on the soccer team come to NYC and as she made committments to not just be a Christian but a laborer for God I found myself dreaming and asking God that next year.....there is several soccer players who know God and worship him....something that seems impossible now when there is only one Christian on the team. I was reminded that God can do anything! All things are possible with him and he is there and I should ask him to do great things because he is a great God!!!

Another book that shows this is "Practicing the Presence of God" by Brother Lawrence...a cook in a monastary. He writes....

"I turn my little omlete in the pan for the love of God. When it is finished if I have nothing to do, I prostrate myself on the ground and worship my God, who gave me the grace to make it. After which I arise happier than a king."

God is in all things, he has made all things and is lord of all things...how easily we forget! Colossians 1:9-29

"Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God."--Dawson Trotman