Coffee with God

Celebration, Anticipation, Expectation

2011-12-06T15:15:00.006-05:00

We are now in the advent season in the church calendar; a time of anticipation and expectation of the Messiah we know as Jesus. It is also a season of celebration on campus here at WVU.

There have been several great things happening this semester in ministry, and I am ashamed I have not shared them sooner than now.

I had shared before our Large Group numbers have more than doubled this year! We have consistently had between 50-70 students join us for "Encounter" each week. Not only have they been involved in this weekly meeting, but more than 30 have been committing to attend small groups throughout the week. In these groups, students not only study scripture, but also create healthy community, outreaching to peers, and being active in the morgantown community.

There are 7 prayer meetings happening every day from mon-fri, where at least 25 students attend in seeking out Jesus.

We now have a Graduate small group study, caring and ministering to 7-12 grad students weekly, an area of ministry we have been praying for and not able to tap into until recently. We are also reaching out to black students on campus, and giving them a place of security and spiritual growth. There are also opportunities to begin a faculty ministry (again, another un-reached but desired area for us) that we are praying about and have the beginnings of good connections.

15 students have come to know Jesus and now living noticeably transformed lives this semester, and we have around 30 students committed to our core group as leaders, and up and coming leaders.

I am astounded by God's workings this semester, and have never seen his spirit move and students walking in obedience so greatly as this year!

Happy new school year!

2011-09-08T22:44:00.005-04:00

We are now at the end of the 3rd week of classes here at WVU, and it has been incredible!

The Friday before classes started, 15 of our IV students helped move in around 50 new freshmen into the dorms. From then through the 1st two weeks, we busied ourselves with info. fairs, picnics, proxe stations, ultimate cantaloupe (like ultimate Frisbee but with cantaloupe), meals with people we didn't know, conversational evangelism, and lots and lots of PR. The result...

- 4 people received Jesus for the first time.
- we made over 120 contacts
- Our first meeting hosted 55 students (roughly 25 more than at the end of last year!), and tonight's meeting held 70!!!!
- 5 prayer meetings (4 at 7am)
- 4 missional small groups (1 of those groups is a Grad specific group with close to 10 Grad students already attending! This is becoming it's own chapter plant that will serve a great need in the grad student community!)
- and IV students growing more in love and passion for the campus and God's heart for mission.

It truly has been an exhausting but incredible 3 weeks! God has been showing himself faithful, students are acting in faith and boldness, and our chapter is exploding both quantitatively, and qualitatively.

Enter In - Day 17

2011-08-17T09:53:00.000-04:00

Enter In - Day 16

2011-08-16T15:20:00.000-04:00

Enter In - Day 15

2011-08-15T14:00:00.000-04:00