Walking by Faith

I live down the street from the fair grounds so some of the girls invited me to go to the chocolate festival in town. At first we didn't think there was really very much chocolate there (mostly different booths of people trying to sell things) but then after lots of free samples I think we all had more than enough chocolate!!


Shelby, Mandy, me, Logan. and Kelsey
(each of these girls has encouraged me so much this semester as I watch them grow in their relationship with the Lord-this week in our discipleship groups we worked on sharing our testimonies!)


This was just an elaborate chocolate statue!

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!