Full Speed Ahead
This first week of the Fall ‘08 – Spring ‘09 year has been an exciting glimpse of what the year might hold for ministry across Nebraska! I’ve started my second year of interning with Nebraska Catalytic, working with 20 schools and eight other staff members. Our team has more than doubled; praise the Lord for more laborers!
Week one started with our CORE retreat for seven of our campuses at Timberlake Ranch Camps. The leadership teams from these schools met for a couple of days of training and planning. It was a very successful weekend connecting with students and working with them, dreaming of the big ways that God can move on their campuses this year. Some highlights of the weekend were a chance to share our personal stories with one another, doing some teambuilding activities through the obstacle course, and getting a chance to sit down with the students and strategically plan how they are going to initiate the most students they can these first few critical weeks on campus.
Yesterday was the first day of classes at Midland Luthern College in Fremont. So, to welcome in the Freshmen and the returning students, our group threw a hugely successful beach party at a lake. Over a hundred students came to hang out, jump off the dock, make s’mores, and engage in conversation. Over a hundred students! That’s incredible and most definitely a work of the Lord. Mozart Dixon, one of our staff, shared part of his story and the message of the all-surpassing peace our Savior has to offer. At a campus the size of Midland, that means about one out of six students on the campus heard the Gospel message last night. What great momentum to carry into the start of the year. Now the real work begins of building those relationships and following up with spiritual conversations. I’m so excited to see what happens as students of Midland step out in faith this year and put themselves in a position to be used by God! He is already at work!
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