Category: Draw Students (Page 5 of 13)

Compelled by the restarting of InterVarsity’s campus work in Louisiana, students from Prairie View, Texas Southern, and Jackson State Universities came with their InterVarsity staff to Louisiana during spring break.

I was blessed to partner with students in prayer walking and doing outreach on two campuses University of New Orleans and Southern University at New Orleans. We prayed for many students and faculty that we encountered on campus and found many eager to be a part of something new.

Please join me in praying for the replanting of InterVarsity in Louisiana and for Beau Crosetto who is leading this team.

Have you been in a meeting where you begin to expose areas for discussion that have not typically seen the light of day? Each track at Corners 2018 under the leadership of staff, volunteers, and students (pictured above) delved into these previously unexposed areas with the light of the good news of the Gospel through Ephesians 2.

We experienced a powerful time of confession, grace, and mobilizing our communities to ‘pursue peace together’ on campus.

By the numbers we saw at least:

• 6 First time decisions to follow Jesus
• 64 Recommitments to Jesus
• 53 Who want to start something new on campus

Please pray for the follow up from our time, particularly for the light of the Gospel to do it’s work in places of darkness; for discipleship for decisions and substantial recommitments; and for students to step out in faith to start something new.

Can you imagine the impact of a witnessing community on every corner of every campus in the U.S.? As an organization we are partnering with others to press forward to this reality.

One of the ways we empower students from every corner of the campus to reach every corner, is through our Corners Conference.

I am directing this conference and overseeing the track leaders pictured above.

Please pray for God to draw the right people, to show up in power, and to send students from every corner to every corner of the campus.

It is clear that we never have the full picture of what God is doing. A story from Cal, staff of the ACF chapter at Washington U, gives one example of this.

“One of my alum, Jennifer, just told me a story from two or three years ago. While we were on a Discipleship Roadtrip to connect with people at Missouri S&T, she met a international student from East Asia who had family in the Bay area. Since Jennifer is originally from the Bay they swapped contact info and haphazardly planned to meet up when they were both home.

Jennifer forgot about this interaction and finished her semester. When she gets home she randomly remembers this student exists and decides to text her. They grab coffee and chat and Jennifer invites her to church with her the next day. Jennifer thought she had never been to church before though she tells Jennifer she actually had been to that church before! She shares with Jennifer that her aunt’s family lives in the Bay and are strong Christians and have been praying for her family’s conversion for years.

Jennifer invites her to a church young adult event the next week and at the event the girl accepts Christ! What a random awesome story! Now Jennifer is going to go be a missionary in East Asia!! Crazy amazing stuff 🙂 Praise God for discipleship road trips and how He crafts stories that are waaaaay longer and cooler than I can even imagine.”