God is opening doors at community colleges. Here is a story about recent fruitfulness at Florissant Valley CC (St Louis area) from Kale Uzzle:
In my few hours on campus each week, it has felt so difficult to know if we were ever going to have the momentum to get a chapter off the ground. Through an answer to prayer, a few other local staff and I had the chance to run some proxe stations at Flo Valley CC at the beginning of April. We met about 20 people who were somewhat interested in learning more about IV. We invited them to our gathering last Thursday and I asked God to bring five Christians to help us launch this new chapter. That morning, I went and bought donuts, set up the room, and prayerfully waited to see what would happen.
By the time the meeting began, eight Christian students had come, all of whom seem very interested in seeing this group get off the ground, and at least a few of whom seem interested in going to Catalyst!
We ate donuts, studied Jesus’ words in Matthew 9 (“The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few…”), and dreamed together about a community on campus where the “harassed and helpless” could encounter the compassion of Jesus. We ended our time asking the Lord of the Harvest to raise up workers (us!) to send into his harvest fields. This week 15 people showed up and 8 people joined me for a prayer walk on campus. It is such a fulfilling way to end what felt like a year filled with lots of tilling the soil with very little fruit to show.
