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This year the chapter at Arizona State University was put on pause after graduating all of the student leaders and transferring the staff out of Arizona.
But, God heard the prayers of staff, Steven and Jessica Grahmann, and called 4 students at Urbana who had a vision to replant the ministry. These 4 students have multiplied to 20 as they’ve recruited for weekly events and bible studies!
Please pray for this group of students as they take the next steps of developing the work at Arizona State.
Last month I was privileged to visit the Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama with my team. It is a powerful memorial to the thousands of victims of lynching in America, telling a part of our history that we need to reckon with as a country. I highly recommend it.
In one area of the memorial, the markers for every verified lynching in every county in the United States are laid in a memorial garden. As I walked through looking for counties that I lived and worked in Missouri, I came upon a memorial to the county of my birth, St Louis County, Minnesota.
Stunned, I realized the ground of lynching extended to the very ground in I was born and grew up on. This story is part of my story.
I later read about Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie who were lynched in Duluth in 1920. May the Lord have mercy on us and may we participate this day in the coming of his kingdom that is marked by justice and righteousness.
Last weekend Solome Haile, Black Campus Ministry staff at Mizzou, partnered with an administrator to put on an on-campus Easter service and lunch.
Solome says, “We originally anticipated about 50 students would attend, and we were praying throughout the week that many students would respond to the call to faith that we’d give during the service.”
“God is truly able AND willing to do exceedingly and abundantly more than we can even ask or imagine! Over 100 black students attended and NINE students accepted Christ!!! All were very excited to hear about the BCM chapter we are building and eager to join! Praise God for his faithfulness in my end-of-semester weariness!”
In partnership with a faculty member, InterVarsity staff trained students at John Brown University in proxe stations and the Big Story.
In one of their following class periods the professor sent his 20+ students to visit a Northwest Arkansas Community College, a campus where staff are starting an InterVarsity chapter, to practice what they learned. They led the the Colorblind proxe for two hours on campus, practiced listening and intercessory prayer, and did pocket proxes all over campus.
All of this was very helpful for the local staff, who is doing follow-up and a gathering event as a result of the outreach. The JBU professor said, “I’ve been waiting 10 years to do something like this, we’ve just never had anyone to partner with.” What a great first step of partnership!
As a former InterVarsity staff in Northwest Arkansas, it is so exciting to see God on the move there. Praise God with me!
God is up to something through InterVarsity at the University of Arkanas.
I was blessed in the late 90’s and early 2000’s to work alongside Kevin Smith with InterVarsity at the University of Arkansas. Several years after Camilla and I moved to St Louis, Kevin took over the leadership of ISCA and the work of InterVarsity grew dormant.
In 2015 Christina and Jacob Foor sensed a call to go to Arkansas and revive the work there. They are now reaching over 75 students from 13 countries on campus, in addition to planting work on two other area campuses.
It is such a blessing to see God growing new seeds that have been planted and to see old seeds we scattered now growing as they are being watered. Praise God!
Rejoice with me for the many decisions at Urbana 18 and pray for these students and faculty as they take next steps back on campus.
Tonight over 10,000 students and staff will join together to consider Jesus, the Faithful Witness, through the book of Revelation.
The vision of the Urbana 18 Student Missions Conference is: To compel this generation to give their whole lives for God’s global mission.
Please join us online at https://urbana.org/ to stream the sessions and go here for specific ways you can be praying each day.
“Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.” John 4:35
Across the country InterVarsity staff, students, and faculty are lifting up their eyes to see the fields that are ripe for harvest. As they step onto new places, they find God at work.
This video is one example of how they are “lifting their eyes” in New York’s five boroughs.
Click here if you would like to partner as we seek to see movements catalyzed on new campuses.
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