Since being back at school, it has been refreshing, exciting, unfamiliar and familiar all at the same time. I've tried using other adjectives to describe it, however I can't come up with much other than just surreal. All summer long, I have been preparing for this time...the time to be back at school applying all of the things I learned down in NMB. So as hard as it may be sometimes, and how homesick I may get for a place not even my home, I remember that this is my purpose right now. Being a light to my campus and furthering God's glory here. There has been a lot of awesome things happening already. The thing I am most excited about? Prayer garage. One of my challenges on project was to be a part of the prayer/ world vision team, and honestly I did it for more of the world vision (I have a rather large heart for reaching the world for Christ). However, God really challenged me to focus more on my prayer life. And throughout the summer I saw how powerful prayer really is!! So like I said, project is for preparation...so a close friend of mine and I decided to start a prayer garage on our campus. Prayer garage=an intimate place where for 24 hours at a time, we will have people constantly going to pray for our campus (freshman, dorms, bible studies, professors, etc)! We'll have places for people to put/take prayer requests to be in prayer for one another, a place to write down praises, all sorts of resources...I truly believe God is going to do HUGE things through it, so please pray that it goes well!! It's the first year we'll be having something like this, so we don't really know what to expect...but God is big! The biggest prayer request I have right now is the actual location of the prayer garage. We were originally going to have it literally in our garage...however after some thought realized it may not work since we have no electricity and heat...so we do have a side porch on our house that is enclosed, has an outside door (not to interfere with the girls living downstairs) and is the perfect size room with electricity!! It would literally be PERFECT!! However, one of our roommates is a little hesitant to have it there because it would be somewhat close to her living area, and isn't sure if she wants it there. I'm not sure where else we could do it, so please pray that God would soften her heart to the idea. I definitely don't want Satan to use a disagreement to ruin the relationships within our house over something that could be so amazing!! So that is my biggest prayer right now!!
Also, my roommate and I are co-leading a bible study again this year and are both super excited to see how God uses it!! I'm meeting with two new freshman this week to just tell them more about Crusade and see where they are at spiritually so I am really excited about that!!!
Overall, I'm very excited for this semester...please just continue to pray for the students here at Oshkosh, or movement, and my own walk with God!!! Thanks!!
