Change is Coming

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New Staff

Andrew Helms has just been brought onto staff to help lead with me. Many of you know Andrew is an answer to many prayers for all of us involved with Winona IV   About Andrew:   -Alumnus of WSU  -Served IV for a year at Michigan Tech  -Passionate about people  -Really likes Cribbage  -Enjoys puppies

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Getting Married

I am getting married in three weeks!  For those of you that maybe out of the loop, I am currently engage to marry Cassie Torkelson on July 26th!   It has been quite a summer planning a marriage and planning for the fall. Thank you all for your prayers and support in the midst of it. Cassie and I are very excited for how God is going to use us in this coming year.

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Prayer Requests:

As we gear up to bring on a new staff member and as I move towards marriage we are in high gear for finiding ministry parters and planning for the fall please join us in prayer:

• Pray for people to financially partner with us so we can continue God's work on campus
• Pray for Andrew's transition onto staff
• Please pray for Cassie and I as we begin to find out what it means to be married

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Winona IV updates as our semester comes to a close:

Cross Training

                                  345 Students  

                                             from four states 

came together to learn how to live lives on mission for Christ.

"The weekend challenged me to see how Jesus cares about every decision I make, and that He just might be asking me to sacrifice personal space, kitchen space, and cheap rent in order to build His church in a place that it doesn't currently exist (namely, the dorms)."

Timmy Turner

Winona IV Leader

Move:DC
12,000 people came together in Washington D.C to hear global leaders speak about justice in a global comunity.

read what happened here and here.

The year has been fantastic! 

Please continue to pray for us as we head into winter break and Urbana 12!

Thank you all so much for your continued prayer and support.

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Making a Difference

Things have been very busy here in Winona.

At Fall Retreat 75 students (most of them there for the first time) came together to build relationships and learn about calling, Gods role in developing passions, and our call to help those in need.
One new student claimed it was "The best week ever."

It has been amazing since then to see students lives transform as they develop community centered on Christ.

This week InterVarsity hosted Invisible Children challenging many students (both in IV and not) to find the issues they care about in the world and work towards a solution.

As a result students will be driving to Washington D.C. to take part in a rally to bring about awareness of the LRA and call world leaders to action (learn more about it here).

Midterms are here so students are tired and stressed. Please pray for our perseverance as we move forward and engage the campus Christ's love.

Thank you for all of your prayers and support.

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The Beginning

The year is in full swing here at Winona State and so much has happened already.

The Lead Team at the Cabin

Our anual leadership retreat at the cabin went very well. In this time of transitioning to being the only IV staff on campus, it has been amazing to see students step up into more involved leadership roles.  We are blessed to have some of the greatest men and women I have had the privilege to know here with us this year helping to move InterVarsity forward.

Last week we had our first large group, where over 150 students (most of them there for the first time!) gathered to worship and learn about what InterVarstiy has going on this first semester.
Durring this time Lauren, one of our student leaders, shared the story of her freshman year and how God met her where she was.

And now we are gearing up for Fall Retreat!  Toward the end of September we will be taking a large group of students to Living Waters Bible Camp where we hope to continue the tradition of meeting new people, building friendships, and encountering Christ.

Please be in prayer for us as we embark on this new year of ministry in Winona!

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Students arrive in less than a month!

We just got done planning our events for freshman orientation, and it's looking to be a great fall. We have a dynamite group of student leaders this year, and I know that God is going to to amazing things through them.


Please pray for:

• Incoming Freshman.  That God would be preparing them and protecting them as they leave their homes and move to Winona.
• Guidance. That we woud see where God is at work and join with Him in His plan for the semester.
• Perseverance . As I venture into my first solo year on staff I know there are going to be times of difficulty.  Please pray for me as I strive to keep my head on straight and lead the students here at WSU.
• Support. Now having only one staff member we are in greater need of support in prayer, financially, socially, and in need of volunteers.  Pray that God would bring people passionate about the ministry forward to help support the chapter here at Winona.

Thank you for all of your support!  

I can't wait to share with you the things that happen this year.

ThanksForGiving

A Student journal we received from a Winona State professor:

"I had filled out a little card saying my name, number and prayer request. The next day I got a call form a really nice girl, who is my age, and we are now friends! I find it so awesome that I gained another friend from having a chat on the phone and attending Intervarsity with her. (Intervarsity is a really good group) All in all I enjoyed all the events."

Thank you so much for helping to make all this possible.

This semester the campus ministries and local churches in Winona worked together with PULSE to have an event to share the gospel with students here.  It was a massive undertaking that involved months of planning and resulted in God moving in a powerful way.

We have much to be thankful for here in Winona, and cannot wait to see what He has planned for next semester.  Thank you!

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Fall Retreat '11

Thank you all so much for your prayers for last weeks Fall Retreat!

The weekend was great this year!  Over 90 students traveled to Living Waters Bible Camp for three days of bonding, Jesus and fun.  This year we had guest speaker Vince Miller come and speak on Generosity.  He spoke of the generosity of God through grace, redemption, freedom and love and also shared his own journey challenging us to take a look at our lives and realize that everything we have belongs to God and is not our own.

It was great to see college students engaged in conversations of what they can give up to help the people around them be it time, money, skills, or other resources.

Ten students made decisions to follow or re commit themselves to Christ and many more shared testimonies of how instrumental the weekend and InterVarsity is changing their life.  I am hoping to get videos up soon to share them with all of you.

In the mean time.  Here is a quick video recap of everything that happened


Thank you all so much for your prayer and support!
I hope you are all doing well!