Hi everyone! We're nearly to fall. I hope you've been enjoying the cooler temperatures in the meantime. I have lots to share from the last month! (really the last 2 weeks)
The semester is in full swing, and we have been out there hustling for the kingdom! God has already brought such neat new students into our ministry.
Worship Nights
We've had 2 Worship Nights so far! We had great attendance to both and got the chance to invite the attendees to join small groups, which you'll hear more about further in this update.
This event is a brand new one to SMU! There was a similar event hosted last year, which is planning to be merged with ours. This is a worship service hosted by students from several different ministries on campus. So far we already have around 10 organizations who have expressed interest in partnering.
It was such a cool experience uniting across organizational and denominational divides to praise the Lord in one unified voice.
We split the service into 3 sections. Worship, Scripture, and Prayer. They were led by nondenominational, reformed, and catholic leaders on campus respectively.
We will be coming together for this event once a month and we are stoked to see momentum building! Our vision is that Perkins Chapel will soon be fully packed in with followers of Jesus (for the first time in who knows how many decades)!
A week before, FOCUS hosted our own worship night and that went great as well!
We had around 55 attend, which is the most I remember FOCUS having in one service at SMU to date. I'm very excited to get the ball rolling with small groups and our weekly fellowship night starting this and next week.
SMU Football
Had about 10-15 FOCUS students go to the opening home game last week against HCU. So far we're 2-0 and are playing BYU tomorrow! Florida State is coming in a few weeks and the students are electric in anticipation.
Community Group
Our students and ministers have been out there hustling over the last couple weeks meeting lots of new students and inviting them into community.
Luke and I just had our first Community Group last night and had a great group of guys come out! Half of those there were freshmen! We're already nearly too big for his dorm, and still have about 10 additional students who are interested that couldn't make it out last night. I'm excited to keep you updated on how this group develops. They've already started brainstorming how we can collaborate to be a light to other students on campus and even go serve the homeless communities near SMU.
God has already done so much and truly, this update only scratches the surface. I'm so enthusiastic for this school year and I hope that you are also pumped for God's mission on the college campus. Thank you so much for your support and for your prayers. Please continue praying for these students and that they become culture-builders and Spirit-filled men and women for Christ.
P.S. We have 4 different nationalities represented in our Community Group so far (Russia, Panama, Italy, US). What a neat, strategic mission field the college campus is for making disciples of all nations! I'll leave you once again with one of my favorite passages of scripture from Revelation.
"After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb... For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes." - Revelation 7:9,18
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