September 2007

"God is stepping things up!"

This is the common response these past two weeks as God moves in a special way across our campuses. After much planning and prayer the fall finally arrived, students returned and we began the busiest time of our year.

God had been preparing for a special movement on our campuses through the entire summer as he worked in the lives of our students. We had many students attending summer projects with CCC this summer. A few of our students joined 16,000 others from around the world in Seoul, South Korea for the Campus Mission 2007 conference which was centered on preparation and prayer for pursuing thousands of unreached campuses around the world.

These students as well as our students who attended U.S. projects were deeply impacted by God this summer and came back with a tremendous desire to reach the campus! Their excitement, their heart for prayer and their desire to reach the lost has been contagious, and the entire movement seems to have been infected with a passion to reach the students of Michigan. God has honored their prayers and been gracious to respond to their excitement by moving in special ways these first couple weeks. Here are just a couple notes to give you a flavor of what has been happening.

An email from a U-M leader:

Hey Guys!

Praise God, I was able to get lunch with a freshman guy named Josh from Markley who I met at the pizza party and then took [to do posters] with me after the ice cream social! During lunch I asked him where he was at spiritual, and-reader's digest version-I shared the gospel with him and he prayed with me to accept Christ! So praise God for that!

Perhaps as exciting, one of the last things he said to me was “I can't wait to tell my girlfriend about this, we have spent so much time talking about what our purpose is!”

Continue to pray that our movement is not just being filled with Christians and swelling, but that God moves people to know Christ and glorify Him!

Love you all, I am so privileged to serve with you guys

In Christ,

Nick