Kick off Week

This has been a really exciting week and we are reminded again how thankful we are to be able to be here in Nacogdoches doing ministry! Around here, classes started on Wednesday, and so we have been in full planning mode for the past weeks leading up to now.
Tuesday, we started things off by having a free lunch for students who were back on campus. We were able to meet alot of new students, and get in some good conversations, and we are really looking forward to getting together with the students that we met during the event. Later that afternoon we met with our Roundtable students, which are our student leadership team. It was so encouraging to see students who are extremely passionate about reaching their peers at SFA for Christ. We got a chance to challenge them, and to help them think through creative ways to share Christ on campus, and to help other students grow in their relationship with Christ. These students are so awesome, and they are already so special to us.
Wednesday marked the official first day of classes and we remembered just how thankful we are to not be going to class! But really, it was an awesome day to be able to meet lots of students. We were on campus, and doing some surveys to see spiritual interest- and to get a chance to follow up with students who indicated they were interested in knowing more about our Christ, a Bible study, or Crusade. Praise the Lord that out of the 100+ students we met Wed. afternoon, many circled they were interested in finding out more about it all! We are already starting to call these students and to get together to talk with them more, and share about Christ.
Thursday was much the same as Wednesday- students were going to their 2nd day of first classes, and it was another great day to meet students during lunch time surveys. In addition, we had our first Crusade weekly meeting of the semester! This semester at our Cru meeting in addition to challenging students to know and follow God, we are wanting to introduce them to praying for, and serving students with out campus partnership with a college campus in Ethiopia. The night was a success, and we had lots of new faces, and a chance to impact new lives. Part of me just wanted to pinch myself, to remind myself that this is real, and that after a year+ of desiring to be here serving, that this is finally real. What an awesome answer to prayer.

Please continue to pray for us and our staff team as we are meeting individually with the students that we met this week: both at the free lunch we hosted, and from the surveys we did throughout the week.
Pray that God would prepare hearts, and that students would come to a saving relationship as a result of Christ at work in their life!
Pray also for us as we are beginning to disciple students. Pray for wisdom as we plan, and that we would be able able to model following Christ, and being authentic. We desire to have students look more like Jesus, and we pray that we can point them to the Lord.
Thanks for being part of this journey with us...