Human Wrong

Earlier this month InterVarsity partnered with World Vision to host an event  raising awareness for child slavery.

Jesse Eaves from World Vision flew in to talk to students about what they can do to help fight slavery around the world.

Students invited their friends churches, classes, some professors even offered extra credit to students who attended!



We had over 300 students attend,  several students have been calling up their elected leaders to support the fight of slavery, and many signed up to be monthly donors for world vision.

One group of students even went and marched on the capitol this weekend to support the fight of human slavery.


God has been doing amazing things in the last part of this year.  As it comes to an end I would like to thank you all so much for your prayer and support.  Only two weeks left of the semester!

A Busy Few Weeks

 We are almost a month deep into the Semester here at Winona State, and what a full three weeks its been.

National Staff Conference

National Staff Conference was at the beginning of the month and it was amazing!  Intervarsity staff members gathered from all around the country to share stories and ideas of how to better reach the campus. It was an eye opening week that really helped me to realize the importance of InterVarsity and other ministries on Campus.  

The highlight of the week was a talk given by Mary Poplin, a professor from Claremont Graduate University.  She was able to give valuable insight into the role of campus ministries in the University.  If you are ever looking for something to do for 45 minutes you should check out her talk. It was inspiring to say the least.

Community group leaders and myself at the retreat

Community Group  Leader Retreat
Two weeks ago the community group leaders got together to plan and pray for the coming semester.

We are very blessed to have several individuals passionate about loving people on their campus, and wanting to establish welcoming groups to dig into the bible and share life together

Pulse
Ministries and churches in Winona are currently Partnering with Pulse, and organization that helps develop student leaders to engage their campus through prayer and witnessing.  Two weeks ago an event was held and had over 200 students gathered together to pray for our campus and see where God is moving.  It was an amazing representation of the body of Christ, and how we all have common purpose.

Prayer Requests

• We are in the middle of planning our Social Justice campaign for the semester.  A lot of things are coming together (more info to come).  Pray that God would give us boldness, and that he would continue to give us vision.
• I am speaking at InterVarsity on February 15th about Gods love.  Please pray that God would speak through me and that I would not get so tied up in what I want to say that I hold back what he wants to communicate.
• As the semester begins to pick up I am realizing how much time I need to be investing into students, and how much my job at the theater can take time away from that.  Please pray both for my fundraising, and managing my time wile I still have to work at the theater.

Thank you all so much for all of your suport!

WSU Students Fight Slavery

A few weeks ago a hand full of our wonderful leaders put together a week long campaign raising money to help fight human slavery,  and it was AMAZING! 

They spent the week going to sporting events and setting up booths around campus to collect peoples loose change, and in only a week they raised over $1,000!  Several rooms were set up at the end of the week with stations showing statistics and personal stories of those affected by slavery. There were even a few students who spent the night painting with the same theme.  At the end of the night the students were challenged to double the amount raised thus far, and in only 20 minutes they have over $1,200 more!

It is amazing to see the love of Christ modeled through the students, both in the set up of this week, and the generous giving of students who often comment on how they have very little money.

Check out the video of the night!
Want to help?  Check out IJM and help fight oppression!

Autumn In Full Swing

Fall is here.  Almost over as a matter of fact.  The leaves have changes, the wind blows like crazy, and everyone is starting to bust out their scarves and mittens.

So much has happened in my first two months that I don't know where to start. It has been amazing and incredibly difficult all at the same time.  But lets move to some things that have gone on

Fall Getaway

Our anual fall retreat was amazing this year! 120 college students came to hang out, make new friends, and learn about God. This weekend taught me a lot of things.  Like I can't stay up until 3am and still wake up at 8 anymore.

The weekend focused around the fact that we all have crap that we deal with, thhings that hold us down, or trip us up. The area director Al Norby spoke on Identity for the weekend. Friday night he had students all write down things they dealt with and on saturday night he read them aloud to the whole group to help us realize no one is perfect, and we all need to find our Identity in Christ, not in our problems.

The weekend was a lot of fun, with the no talent talent show, rock wall, zip line, and huge bonfire fall getaway fired on all cylinders and was an incredible time.

Community Groups

I get the privilege at Winona State of working with our chapters community group leaders.  If I haven't gotten to tell you about the students we have leading community groups this year, let me fill you in, they are AMAZING.  I have never met a group of students more dedicated creating places to allow students to know and support one another while sharing the Love of Christ with each other and the campus.


There is so much more that has been going on, but I can't possibly fit it all in this post.  It's been a great year so far, and I can't wait to see what God does with Intervarsity in the last month of the semester.
I am still in the process of raising funds to help me invest my full attention on IV, so if you are interested in supporting what is going on here at WSU donate to help us out.


Thank you all for your support, be it financially, prayerfully, or good conversations.  I could not do what I do without your help.