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The Perfect Storm--Part 3

Friday, August 07, 2009 Share: |

(FYI...Thursdays are my time off to be at home with family so I may not write much on those days.)

Normally, "Part 3" of this perfect storm is all I have to focus on during a given year.  And normally, "Part 3" takes up plenty of time on its own which is why I am somewhat alarmed--like when you see the storm clouds on the horizon, you just don't know yet how bad the storm might get. 

I am referring, of course, to Rebels for Christ, our campus ministry and the mission to reach Ole Miss students.  Thanks to my two apprentices, we are anticipating a larger than normal group of freshmen in the fall.  We are excited to see these new faces--they are so important to us and it is such a huge transition in a teenagers life.  We're expecting 50-75 new faces and we pray that we can help connect them to Christ.  

There will be a lot of teaching from the Gospel of John and 1 John this fall--may sound boring but it won't be...most of time!  We're going to Greenville, MS  for a service retreat October 3-5.
We plan to have special groups for freshmen and upperclassmen in homes or in the dorms for study and encouragement. 

Of course, we have to work football into our ministry somehow since we are an SEC school.  This should be a big football year because Ole Miss is supposed to be good and we have a lot of great home football games.  We will try and do a big service project on a Saturday before a night game. 

It all comes back to loving God and neighbor--and that's a full time life! 

So that's the storm--National Campus Ministry Seminar, trying to have more children via IVF, and my mission to the Ole Miss campus. 
I can feel the storm approaching.  Funny thing about storms--I always have anxiety and excitement as a storm approaches.  Something about the power and phenomenon of a storm lends itself to both.  So it will be with my life--anxiety and excitement as I depend on God, protect my marriage and family and love every college student that crosses my path.

Bring it on, storm!


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Blogger Matthew Kooshad wrote

this makes me think of our "everlasting God" and isaiah 40:30,31
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.

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