I feel like I am finally getting into a "routine" and figuring out what a typical week for me will look like. Every week and campus visit looks differently so I am learning to be flexible, but I now know what schools I will be working on and can better mangage my time...which is a blessing!
I am really excited to be working with SCC Lincoln, SCC Beatrice, Union College, Wesleyan College, and Peru State College, and Chadron State College.
Here is an update about what the past few weeks have looked like:
Union College
Campus Crusade has had a presence on Union College before, but we have never had a solid connection with any students. It was such a blessing when my ministry partner and I walked onto the college and "happened" to run into a student who was wanting to reach out to her fellow students around her and desired to see small group Bible studies pop up all over campus. This student's vision is almost exactly inline with Campus Crusade for Christ's vision. Currently, we are forming a partnership with some Union Students to help move their campus forward with this vision!
Wesleyan College
One of the biggest blesses on Wesleyan campus for me is the relationships I am forming with the student leadership team. I have really enjoyed getting to know each one of the girl student leaders on a more personal basis and challenge them in their walk with God. The ministry at Wesleyan has a solid group of leaders, so its been lots of fun just being intentional and one-on-one with the leaders to help challenge them and develop them into laborers for Christ.
SCC Lincoln
I am really excited to be working with the SCC Lincoln ministry again! For me, the biggest highlight so far was a meeting that we set up for all the student leaders and faculty who has been a support to get the ministry going over the years. It was so good to walk away from the meeting knowing everyone was on the same page and ready to move forward with God's vision. I am excited to see how much the ministry grows and develops over the next year. We have amazing leaders who are willing to be used!
SCC Beatrice
This Thursday we are getting ready to have a Pizza Party, which will mark the official launching date. Please pray for students leaders to be surfaced on this campus so we can get things rolling!
Peru State College
For me, Peru State College is one of the funnest campuses to visit. The students are so welcoming when we come to visit! Along with Wesleyan, I am excited to get the chance to be intentional with the female leadership at Peru. Small group movements are just begining on the campus, so I am excited to see how God will use those throughout the year.
Chadron State College
Chadron State College is the model school for the vision behind Campus Crusade for Christ: Nebraska Catalytic. The school started out the year launching 20 spiritual movements all across their campus and dorm floors and since then their movements have been doubling in size and splitting. We can not visit Chadron as often as we would like, but God is moving with or without us being there...its pretty amazing. Since their movements are muliplying, their Big weekly meeting is also growing in size. 100 plus students attend each Wednesday for worship and fellowship with other students. Its not about the numbers that come each week, its about individual life transformation. Praise God that this is happening through the small movements on campus that these 100 students are getting plugged into!
Thanks for taking the time to read my blog! I'll post again in a few weeks!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
The Past Two weeks and updates...
Hey everyone! Thanks for visiting my Blog. Hopefully you can use this as tool for whenever God puts me and my ministry on your hearts and you want to check up on what is going on! I haven't gotten the chance to Blog in a few weeks because I have been traveling all over and visiting campuses, but I am going to try and give you a quick recap about what is going on at a few campuses I have visited so far:
Midland Lutheran:
For the first Campus Crusade for Christ kick-off meeting, the Midland Lutheran CCC leaders had a beach party at a nearby lake. 110 students showed up for the event to check things out and sat on the sandy beach as one of our intern staff shared his testimony and message of the gospel. Praise God that 1/7th of the students on that campus heard the gospel their first week of classes!
Chadron State College:
Currently at Chadron the students have launched 20 spiritual movements on their campus. This means that currently 60 students are plugged into a small group where they can grow in their relationship with God and each other. If each of these movements split once they double in size, potentially 120 plus students could be involved by the end of the year. Last year we experienced movements multiplying three times over, we pray this happens again next year! How exciting would it be to see 50 plus spiritual movements happening on different dorm floors on campus and reaching out to every pocket group of people!
Peru State College:
I have yet to visit Peru, but I heard word that 500 plus students showed up to their first kick-off event to introduce students to Campus Crusade for Christ being on their campus...Praise God! Currently around 50 students have been showing up at their weekly meetings. The student leaders are really excited about what this next year is going to look and are excited to see God at work and moving on their campus!
University of Kearney:
In the past UNK has had full-time staff working with the student leaders on campus. This year UNK is a part of the NE Catalytic staff which means the students are learning to take ownership over their campus in ways they never experienced before. It has been somewhat of a tough transition for the students having staff who isn't present at every meeting and on campus each week, but God has provided UNK with two volunteer staff who live in Kearney and are willing to help the students get on their own feet. These two staff are a huge blessing to the UNK campus and we are so grateful for the both of them. They are an answer to prayer!
Doane College:
At the weekly meeting this week around 30 students were present. By the end of the meeting the students were ready to launch 11 eleven spiritual movements on their campus. Praise God that every student at the meeting got plugged into their own small group! It isn't just enough for a campus to have a weekly meeting, it is our prayer that each student is also involved in true authentic, genuine relationships where they can discover for themselves who God is.
Thanks for taking the time to read this weeks blog. At the end of each week I will continue to post more stories so visit again!
Teresa
Hey everyone! Thanks for visiting my Blog. Hopefully you can use this as tool for whenever God puts me and my ministry on your hearts and you want to check up on what is going on! I haven't gotten the chance to Blog in a few weeks because I have been traveling all over and visiting campuses, but I am going to try and give you a quick recap about what is going on at a few campuses I have visited so far:
Midland Lutheran:
For the first Campus Crusade for Christ kick-off meeting, the Midland Lutheran CCC leaders had a beach party at a nearby lake. 110 students showed up for the event to check things out and sat on the sandy beach as one of our intern staff shared his testimony and message of the gospel. Praise God that 1/7th of the students on that campus heard the gospel their first week of classes!
Chadron State College:
Currently at Chadron the students have launched 20 spiritual movements on their campus. This means that currently 60 students are plugged into a small group where they can grow in their relationship with God and each other. If each of these movements split once they double in size, potentially 120 plus students could be involved by the end of the year. Last year we experienced movements multiplying three times over, we pray this happens again next year! How exciting would it be to see 50 plus spiritual movements happening on different dorm floors on campus and reaching out to every pocket group of people!
Peru State College:
I have yet to visit Peru, but I heard word that 500 plus students showed up to their first kick-off event to introduce students to Campus Crusade for Christ being on their campus...Praise God! Currently around 50 students have been showing up at their weekly meetings. The student leaders are really excited about what this next year is going to look and are excited to see God at work and moving on their campus!
University of Kearney:
In the past UNK has had full-time staff working with the student leaders on campus. This year UNK is a part of the NE Catalytic staff which means the students are learning to take ownership over their campus in ways they never experienced before. It has been somewhat of a tough transition for the students having staff who isn't present at every meeting and on campus each week, but God has provided UNK with two volunteer staff who live in Kearney and are willing to help the students get on their own feet. These two staff are a huge blessing to the UNK campus and we are so grateful for the both of them. They are an answer to prayer!
Doane College:
At the weekly meeting this week around 30 students were present. By the end of the meeting the students were ready to launch 11 eleven spiritual movements on their campus. Praise God that every student at the meeting got plugged into their own small group! It isn't just enough for a campus to have a weekly meeting, it is our prayer that each student is also involved in true authentic, genuine relationships where they can discover for themselves who God is.
Thanks for taking the time to read this weeks blog. At the end of each week I will continue to post more stories so visit again!
Teresa
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Week One
I reached 80% of my financial goal on August 11th. Praise God! I appreciate and am blessed by everyone who has been keeping me in their prayers...
I am now officially an intern with Campus Crusade for Christ: Nebraska Catalytic and am excited to see what all God has in store for me! My first experience as an intern with Crusade was at a CORE retreat for student leaders this last weekend. It was so good to meet the students that I will be working with and begin to build relationships with them.
To begin the week as a team we met Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday morning for staff training. We dug into God's Word and learned about what it is going to look like when we start working on each of the campuses in Nebraska. I feel like God has had in Hand on me through all of this and has been shaping me for this opportunity that has been placed before me. I am still unsure about how everything is going to fall into place or even what it is going to look like when I begin meeting and talking face to face with students, but I know it is going to be good. There is no doubt in my mind that He wants me here and that He desires to use me for His purpose. I have surrendered this year over to Him and am ready to be used!
I am now officially an intern with Campus Crusade for Christ: Nebraska Catalytic and am excited to see what all God has in store for me! My first experience as an intern with Crusade was at a CORE retreat for student leaders this last weekend. It was so good to meet the students that I will be working with and begin to build relationships with them.
To begin the week as a team we met Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday morning for staff training. We dug into God's Word and learned about what it is going to look like when we start working on each of the campuses in Nebraska. I feel like God has had in Hand on me through all of this and has been shaping me for this opportunity that has been placed before me. I am still unsure about how everything is going to fall into place or even what it is going to look like when I begin meeting and talking face to face with students, but I know it is going to be good. There is no doubt in my mind that He wants me here and that He desires to use me for His purpose. I have surrendered this year over to Him and am ready to be used!
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