November Newsletter

New Year, New Students

On this year’s Move-In Day—the Saturday before classes started in August—we attached flyers with our website and information about our weekly Pursuit meeting to water bottles and hangers. We set up tables with “Free Water” signs at the dorm parking lots and handed out 21 cases of water. A couple guys grabbed stacks of hangers and walked through the halls of the dorms, sharing about Chi Alpha as they went.

Jazzy, a freshman from central Montana, was one student we met that day. Walking outside her dorm on Move-In Day, Jazzy met two Chi Alpha students at a “Free Water” table, and they invited her to come to Pursuit. She was one of a handful of new students at the first meeting of the year.

The second Saturday after the beginning of classes, Chi Alpha sponsored a trip to Flathead Lake, about an hour and a half from Missoula, for a day of fun in the sun. We road tripped there in a school bus packed with students,including Leah, another freshman that Jazzy had brought with her.

Since this trip, both of these girls have dived in to Chi Alpha, getting involved in small groups and showing interest in leadership and missions opportunities. In a recent conversation I had with Jazzy, she expressed her desire to “be a tree” as described in Psalm 1, instead of being swayed by other people and circumstances as she was before coming to Chi Alpha. It is exciting to see her and Leah going deeper in Christ, and I look forward to what God will do in and through them in the future.



the World Missions Summit
(December 28—January 2)

I am helping lead a group to this conference in Cincinnati, OH. The event, with over 400 missionaries and 6,000 participants, is meant to help students discover the missional heart of God and their place in His plan, whether as “goers” or as “senders.” To help offset the cost (about $500 per person), we are working on all sorts of fundraisers, including Singing Christmas Cards, a Make Believe Tea Party, and possibly a benefit concert with a local Christian band. My hope is that the experience of fundraising will grow the faith of each student involved. For myself, missions and world traveling are still heavy on my heart. I am praying that God uses the Summit to direct me into whatever He has next for me. Thanks for joining with me in these prayers!

Praise and Prayer
♦Praise for about 20 new students invloved with Chi Alpha this semester. It’s a privilege to speak into their lives and watch them grow in God.
♦Pray for wisdom in discipling students in relationships and leadership.
♦Pray that students would continue to grow in their desire to reach out to their campus and see their classmates come to know Christ.