It was an exciting time for me too serve students on the various jobs that I had through the week. The first day, I helped register students at the solutions desk. It was challenging being assigned the solutions specialist but God's grace got me through, and I found myself enjoying it. I also was part of the dinner team, directing students where to go. We fed the entire conference in 2 hours time each day. I am thankful for the incredible staff and volunteers who are gifted in logistics hospitality and organization. I learned from them that week.
One of the days, I got to serve as a prayer minister. Many students responded to God's invitation to long term missions and needed prayer and clarity from God. It was amazing to see God work and the Holy Spirit minister to each student uniquely in these prayer times. This was definitely a highlight for me.
We took three students from the SRJC to Urbana. Michael, Abby, and Blake. Each of them came back with a next steps in their commitments to Christ. Blake committed to inviting non christian friends and family to study the Gospel of Luke with him this upcoming semester. Michael and Abby both committed to long term missions after they graduate and are starting to look more into different organizations.
Here is a link to the overview video!
http://vimeo.com/56574579
Here is an overview of what happened on a larger scale
- 4,224 people committed to serving for more than 2 years in missions
- 96 people committed to following Jesus for the first time!
- Over 800 people re-committed their lives to Jesus
- 5,474 people went through the prayer room
- 2,324 of those people received individual prayer ministry
- 6,434 committed to inviting a non-Christian friend to study the book of Luke with them
- 32,000 medical kits were assembled for caregivers in Swaziland and Zimbabwe to care for AIDS patients.
- $800,295 given to support different organizations around the world.
If you would like to watch any of the live feeds what students were hearing at urbana go to urbana.org/live
Thank you so much for praying for our time in St. Louis.
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