Teach Pray Love

Besides the 2 student retreats I've gotten to go on in the last month, I've had opportunities to pray, teach and share the gospel.

InterVarsity trained me in prayer ministry during two overnighters this fall, and I've taken every opportunity to put it into practice. I've planned for it in student meetings, but I've also done it spontaneously when I realized they needed a word from God. I've even taken it off campus, praying with people from church. I'm part of the Urbana prayer ministry team. I'll pray with students at our national missions conference this December, listening with them for what God has to say, how he wants to heal them, or how they need to respond. God has already brought healing to identity, abuse, deep childhood issues, unforgiveness, and fear. Praise Jesus! I'm excited to see what he does at Urbana, and grateful to have another tool in my belt for ministry. Please pray for me, that I'd be diligent in my own walk with God so I don't burn out, and that I'd have ears to hear the Lord.

I spoke at UH's Large Group meeting earlier this month. I felt like God wanted me to teach from Mark 6, but I wasn't sure about what exactly. And then it hit me - I needed to challenge students to depend on God. Something I fail to do regularly. Why this passage God? It was good for my soul though. From the passage, I showed students our need to depend on God for authority in work/ministry/life, for rest, and for compassion. Please pray for me and for UH's students to depend on God in all things.

The week before Thanksgiving, I drove to SFA. We hit the ground running with conversational evangelism. I taught the 8 gathered students how to strike up spiritual conversations, then sent them out in pairs. Later, I heard one student, Morgan, was so nervous she thought she was going to throw up the whole day. But all 8 students came back gushing! While no one decided to follow Jesus that day, they connected with new people and realized how easy it is to talk to strangers about the important stuff in life - God's love and grace and salvation. Later that night, I studied Luke in SFA's Wednesday Small Group and went to a poetry night. The next day, I met with some of the students 1-on-1 and left joyful at what God is doing in Nacogdoches.

I'll be going out with my Associate Regional Director, Andrea Thomas, and any InterVarsity students at A&M that we can round up for conversational evangelism this Friday. Definitely pray for that too!