We've had a very full semester so far this year. God is doing so much in our ministry that it's just so hard to keep up with. We started the year with the craziness that is meeting new freshmen and new students. We held our annual Fall Retreat where we had just over 100 students from New Jersey hear how to change their "Focus" and direct it towards God and off the things of this world. This group included over 20 from the Rutgers ministry where there is a tighter bond and desire to grow among the students. Every morning these past several weeks several students have gotten together to pray. They are up and at it before we are as staff.
Here are a couple of fun stories from the past several weeks:
One Monday afternoon, Sarah shared with Karen how that morning she had the opportunity to share the gospel with her roommate Phi, Sarah has been rooming with her for several years now and has had a few spiritual conversations before. However, that morning, Phi gave her life to the Lord! A few days later, Phi was telling her sorority sisters about how Jesus was changing her, and now several of the sisters are anxious to talk to Sarah, to find out about how their lives can be changed as well through a relationship with Jesus Christ! Now Sarah is considering where God is calling her to serve Him after she finishes school. Please pray for Sarah as she makes those decisions and for the relationships she builds with the sorority sisters.
Just yesterday, Karen went out with Jen a student leader to share our faith. She actually ran into an old friend named Afua, that she hadn’t seen in 10 years since she was a little girl! She’s a sophomore at Rutgers now. Karen asked her to tell about her spiritual side of life and where she was at. The conversation led into a full dialogue over the gospel. Jen was able to be stretched in her faith, as Karen ‘nudged’ her here and there to share alongside of her. At the end of our conversation, Afua gave
her life to Christ! We’ve invited her out to more events and meetings, and will hopefully be meeting up with her soon to help her grow in her new relationship with Jesus!
At Monmouth Karen was recently able to meet up with a Muslim girl to talk about God and had the great opportunity to share Christ with her multiple times during the conversation. God is at work in the lives and hearts of college students. We have only just scratched the surface of what God is doing. We are really enjoying ministry this year and feel like the students are really pulling us along as they go for it together. It is awesome to be a part of and we love sharing it with you.
Pray for us and for the students as the semester moves towards its close that we would all finish well and not coast.
