Walking by Faith

Campus Outreach Birmingham partners with Campus Outreach Austraila. We are on a college campus in Brisbane and hoping to expand to other campuses in austrailia in the future. We are actually also praying that God would raise up some Aussies who would become missionaries in the 10/40 window. In hearing about and learning more about the desire to labor in Austraila I have learned more about the vision of campus outreach to labor towards reaching the world with the gospel. We labor so that people from every tongue tribe and nation will one day sit before his throne and worship him. It's super cool that I also get to be a part of this by investing in college students in the US...I'm praying that God will send them out! We also have 3 teams of college students spending their summers on cross cultural projects in austraila.

Here is a video explaining more of what's going on with campus outreach austrailia. I just thought it might be cool to check out.

I leave on thursday to go to the summer beach project! I'm so excited! There will be about 240 students from Berry College, Troy, South Alabama, West Georgia, Montevallo, Samford, and University of North Alabama

Prayer Requests:
1. That there will be plenty of jobs for our students despite oil spill
2. For all the planning for the project (structure, schedule, talks, training, meals. etc.)
3. For spiritual growth of all students that go and desire to love the Lord with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength and love their neighbors as themselves.

Student's raising money to go on their mission trip this summer to Thailand a place where some people have never before heard the name of Jesus.




Here are some of Cherish's thoughts (while she's carwashing:))

School year is wrapping up....I convinced LJ and Cory to share their thoughts on why they have decided to go to Summer Beach Project this summer. This is our discipleship program where students get full time jobs in destin floridia. Through Bible studies, weekly training, and life on life discipleship they will learn more about what it means to grow in their relationship with God and practically walk with him for a life time.



Laura Jo's thoughts


Cory's thoughts

Erin is going to be my new roommate in Montevallo in the fall. She is a senior on the soccer team and has a heart for lost at montevallo to come to know him. She will be going on a cross cultural project (mission trip) this summer for the month of june to sydney austrailia. Though I am just getting to know her her heart for the Lord and love for missions encourages me. I thought I would put a link to her blog on the right about her trip to sydney and information on what God is doing with that trip and at montevallo from a student's perspective. It always encourages me to hear about work God is doing all over the world and I thought it might encourage you to know that through your support you are helping many students like Erin have these opportunities!

http://erinsmissiontosydneyaustralia.blogspot.com/

Staff partners Ben and Jeffrey! These guys have for real been brothers for me this semester...I am so thankful and grateful to them and their families for how much they have taught me. I couldn't ask for better staff partners. We were playing in the picture but there might have been some real tears as we went into our last campus outreach rally at South Alabama. The theme of the night was "Jesus is better than life" The one thing we want to leave the students with is that.....better than life, air, food, sex, relationships, school.....Jesus is better than life. Before the meeting as these men pleaded with God for laborers to be raised from that room and for them to not just be challenged tonight but to walk with Him for a lifetime and give their life away for him....I felt so privileged to be a part of what God has been doing and will continue to do at South Alabama after we are gone.

Brittany and Laura Jo from D group at our last campus outreach formal rally. I'm gonna miss these girls. Brittany is actually going to spend this summer as an intern at Common Ground Montgomery. She will be working with urban missionaries there in the inner city and reaching out to kids through programs, tutoring, events, and to show and share the love of Christ. Laura Jo will actually be with me at the Summer Beach Project. She is going as a group leader this summer so you can pray for them both that they would grow in their relationship with God and that he would use this summer to help them learn how to give their lives away for the rest of their life.


We had our last weekly bible study last night! We will still see each other with two more weeks left of school but it was our last formal group. We talked about discipleship....the importance of being a disciple and investing in others as well. As we looked at scriptures and had discussion on what we were learning....it never fails each week that I sit back as they are talking and think wow look at God work! What he has done in their lives is something only he can do! Some of these girls lives looked so radically different a year or even 6 months ago and to hear them talking about things they are learning from his word! This is so special and i'm so thankful to be a part. If there is one thing God has humbled me with this semester is that I can't change hearts or make people grow but him that does the work and draws them to himself. Thankyou for praying for me and these girls. Some of them are thinking of going to SBP so you can pray for their decision making and summers.