August Ministry Update

First Month of Ministry!

SICM

During the second week of August, all of the ministers with FOCUS and all of our student leaders got to a leadership/discipleship conference called Student Institute of Campus Ministry (SICM). At SICM, our goal is to help equip student leaders to be bold, disciple-makers when they get on campus. Also, SICM was such a blast! I learned a lot, had a blast, and got to know our student leaders at Collin.

This is us at our first learning session. There were about 200 student leaders who came because they want to love Jesus and college students well this year!

This is just one of the views at Camp Eagle. It was nice weather and beautiful all week!

This is all of us worshipping outside one morning.

I got to play a sport called Spikeball with a new friend Landry. We lost most games, but we won in friendship. Sorry, that was cheesy.

This is a table I set at for lunch one day. Among the guys in this picture are my good friend Corey (from UTA last year) and my newer good friend Pedro.

This is me and some Collin College guys chowing down on breakfast. This place had killer food.

Playing some more Spikeball. I won this time!

Me and Taylor! She is a pastor with FOCUS at UTA so we both got to go to SICM.

Welcome Week

Welcome week is the first week of school at college. At Collin College, it started on August 23rd! We hosted outreach events every day that week and met so many people who are desiring friendship and a relationship with God!

During this week I met a guy (I'll call him D). D walked by after we had our worship night (it was about 10pm). He stopped and asked what we were doing. I told him we were a Christian group and he then made me give him my number! He is an international student from Nigeria who lives on campus. He told me that he has been looking for a church and Christian friends since January (when he started college). He came to church with me that Sunday and has come to everything we do since.

Praise God for answering our prayers to prepare people's hearts!

Hanging out at Taco Bell with some students we met at the Frisco campus.

Our first Thursday Night Fellowship (TNF) event of the year. So many new students!

A volleyball event we invited new students to. Again, so many new students! Praise God!

Invitation to Prayer

In our small group this past week, we played a game where we asked each other one serious and one goofy question. One of the serious questions someone asked was "who are you?" They said it as a joke and everyone laughed, I think because it seems like an impossible question to answer. But the good news of being a Jesus person is that we are God's children! We have life to the full and we have purpose in life beyond what we do. Even though we can doubt or forget, we know who we are!

God has let us befriend so many students who are hungry for friendship, for God, and for truth. I'm excited and hopeful for the students we've befriended to get to experience Jesus this year!

Some things to pray for:

• Non-christians in our ministry to experience Jesus. We've gotten to meet a lot of students at the McKinney campus who aren't Christian!
• Pray specifically over 2 students D and A. Pray over their relationship with Jesus to keep growing.
• Pray over our outreach at the McKinney Collin College campus.