Showing posts with label retreats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label retreats. Show all posts

6.12.2011

My first 10 months of collegiate ministry

My family at a UH football game!!
Mom, Elise, Jeremy & me
Jeremy & me at the BSM.
The Lord has blessed us with a
wonderful year of marriage!
Friends at Hermann Park during the summer before the fall
semester began. L-R: Joanna, Sarah, Rachel, Wes & Katie Barta,
Todd Shoppach: '10-'11 Campus Missionary, Jeremy & me
Serving all over the state! Reaching college students for Jesus!
I'm in the middle in the green t-shirt.

Girls' Retreat in February!
Proverbs 31:25-26 - "She is clothed with dignity & strength.
She laughs without fear of the future. When she speaks, her
words are wise & she gives instruction with kindness." 

72 HOURS of PRAYER
During the Lenten Season, we encouraged our students to participate in a fast based on Isaiah 58.

Isaiah 58:6-8
"Is this not the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?
 Is it not to share your food with the hungry and provide the poor wanderer with shelter-
when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
Then your light with break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness will go before you and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.
Then you will call, and the Lord will answer, you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I."

Using these verses as a foundation, for 40 days we committed to:
1) Serving someone sacrificially every day
2) Sharing the testimony of our life and relationship with Jesus with someone every day
3) Take out something in our lives that could be replaced with spending time with Jesus.

At the end of the fast, we began a 3 day prayer tent that sat outside the Library. Many lives were drastically changed!

BEACH REACH 2011 :: South Padre Island :: Spring Break in March
BSM Students L-R: Annie, Jessica, Curtis, Danielle, Meagan
In the back: Jared, Tiffany
Van rides! Pancake Breakfasts! Telling people about JESUS!! Worship on the beach!
Fishing! Sand sculptures! Holy Spirit moving and directing and changing me in ways I've never experienced before!!!!

Matthew 11:28-30-  Jesus said:
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle
and humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls.
For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

Luke 5:4
"When (Jesus) had finished speaking, he said to Simon,
"Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch."

Girls' Day at Galveston Beach in May
Paint Fight & Lunch
L-R: Danielle, Bekah, me, Karis, Anna, Stefanie, Annie, Jessica, Hadley, Leah, Karen
Not shown: Rosie & Taylor