More fun pics here.
These are from Scavenge New Orleans at Tulane this past Saturday. Another great turnout by our volunteers! And, we met 33 new students.
August 30, 2010
Scavenge New Orleans
More fun pics here.
These are from Scavenge New Orleans at Tulane this past Saturday. Another great turnout by our volunteers! And, we met 33 new students.
August 25, 2010
August 23, 2010
Burger Bash 2010 - WooHOO!
Pictures on the way...
Saturday night was our first big event for fall kick-off 2010, and what a great night it was. We met about 150 UNO students and fed them tons of burgers and hotdogs. In all of this, our students and staff were working the crowd, learning names and stories, creating new relationships and connecting with students from all over the world in meaningful and lasting ways. I had the privilege of making new friends with students from all over Louisiana, as well as Guatemala, China and New Jersey.
We had four amazing volunteers who helped make this possible - John and Eileen Ryan (long time friends, and members of the Chi Alpha New Orleans Advisory Board), and two great guys from New Orleans Teen Challenge. These four did almost all of the cooking and serving, so our students were totally free to be out and about among their peers. Instead of Chi Alpha students serving behind a table, they were able to shake hands and play games and lay the foundation for relationships that will bear much fruit for the Father's glory.
Thank you to our supporters and to our volunteers!
Saturday night was our first big event for fall kick-off 2010, and what a great night it was. We met about 150 UNO students and fed them tons of burgers and hotdogs. In all of this, our students and staff were working the crowd, learning names and stories, creating new relationships and connecting with students from all over the world in meaningful and lasting ways. I had the privilege of making new friends with students from all over Louisiana, as well as Guatemala, China and New Jersey.
We had four amazing volunteers who helped make this possible - John and Eileen Ryan (long time friends, and members of the Chi Alpha New Orleans Advisory Board), and two great guys from New Orleans Teen Challenge. These four did almost all of the cooking and serving, so our students were totally free to be out and about among their peers. Instead of Chi Alpha students serving behind a table, they were able to shake hands and play games and lay the foundation for relationships that will bear much fruit for the Father's glory.
Thank you to our supporters and to our volunteers!
August 10, 2010
July 14, 2010
Campus Missions Conference - A Chi Alpha Prayer
Jen and I are enjoying a great time of refreshing, training and fun in Phoenix, AZ at Chi Alpha's Campus Missions Conference. We are here with Chi Alpha missionaries and staff from 150+ different campuses. It's been a great couple of days so far.
At the opening session, Monday night, we were given a card with some data on campus evangelism and such. On the back of the card was Matthew 9:35-38 in the "Chi Alpha Translation". This moved me, and speaks powerfully towards God's heart for the universities:
Jesus went through all the colleges and universities, teaching in the classrooms, student centers, dorm lounges, free speech zones, the campus quads, rec centers, computer labs and coffee cafes, preaching the good news of the Kingdom and healing students with depression, sexual sin, anger, drug and alcohol abuse, brokenness, and low self-esteem. When he saw the students, he had compassion on them, because they were morally confused, religiously ignorant, and spiritually lost. Then he said to campus missionaries, "The campus mission field is immense, and the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest therefore to raise up and send out more campus missionaries."
We are so blessed to have a growing team of campus missionaries in New Orleans after years of prayer. Josh and Rachel Harvey are serving with us at Loyola. Christine Thrower is joining us at UNO, and two new Campus Missionaries in Training will join us at Tulane this year!
Please pray with us for the students and the campus mission field, in general, and for more laborers in New Orleans and around the nation and the world. (And be prepared, God might ask you to be the answer to your prayer.)
At the opening session, Monday night, we were given a card with some data on campus evangelism and such. On the back of the card was Matthew 9:35-38 in the "Chi Alpha Translation". This moved me, and speaks powerfully towards God's heart for the universities:
Jesus went through all the colleges and universities, teaching in the classrooms, student centers, dorm lounges, free speech zones, the campus quads, rec centers, computer labs and coffee cafes, preaching the good news of the Kingdom and healing students with depression, sexual sin, anger, drug and alcohol abuse, brokenness, and low self-esteem. When he saw the students, he had compassion on them, because they were morally confused, religiously ignorant, and spiritually lost. Then he said to campus missionaries, "The campus mission field is immense, and the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest therefore to raise up and send out more campus missionaries."
We are so blessed to have a growing team of campus missionaries in New Orleans after years of prayer. Josh and Rachel Harvey are serving with us at Loyola. Christine Thrower is joining us at UNO, and two new Campus Missionaries in Training will join us at Tulane this year!
Please pray with us for the students and the campus mission field, in general, and for more laborers in New Orleans and around the nation and the world. (And be prepared, God might ask you to be the answer to your prayer.)
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