my first month as a campus missionary

My first month as a campus missionary

with

Active Christians Today

Last Friday we had an ice cream party at the house. Some of our students brought their international conversation partners! If you have never played "Apples to Apples" with international students you are missing out!

not to brag or anything but they kicked me out of the game when I won 6 out of the first 10 rounds ;-)

We were invited to Delta Church of Christ to share about ACT. We had a wonderful time leading worship and they treated us VERY kind. They through a paper shower for us and stocked our cupboards!

Some of the students helped me make cookies for a prison ministry and Change for Change in the O4 water jugs.

Dan is teaching about the attributes of God on Monday nights

And we all end up at the campus house after worship...where there is a LOT of laughter!

I have made 5 meals, gone to 4 parties, led 3 service nights, attended 4 worship services, played COUNTLESS games of catch phrase,taken students to work, hugged students as they cried over car accidents and sick grandmas, prayed for parents with cancer, texted many students and encouraged them to join us, spent many many lunch hours at the house with students, invited strangers to free food Fridays, painted the kitchen......no day is ever the same and I am LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT.

What do you get when you add 10 volleyball games, 2 bushels of tomatoes to can, a weekly housecleaning job, 5 meals for 40, 90 meals for 6, 30 loads of laundry, 20 dozen cookies, 40 students to get to know, 3 kids in a new school, and I could go on but I will not.....one very tired woman.

he leads me by still waters..... I took an afternoon to pray and refresh, only with HIM filling will I be able to overflow onto those He has called me to serve.

please pray that I will make good choices on how to spend my time and that I will stay well so I can continue to serve the students and serve my family the way God wants me to....I really love them.

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE STUDENTS

• that they will manage their time well
• that they will make time to go to retreat
• that they will invite friends to ACT
• one has a mom with cancer
• one has a grandma in hospice
• many are struggling academically 
• many are struggling financially 
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Look and see all that the Lord has done for us.......

Girls sleepover....

 

way fun! I wish I had half the talent that these girls have! We made thankfulness journals and they all decorated them so beautifully.....NOW to fill them up with all the ways God is good and how he is blessing us :-)

 

 

 

 

I think the Guys had a good time at our house, the party was going strong at 2am when I came home from the campus house.....rumor is that Emma stayed up VERY late "serving" them and giving them her build a bears to sleep with.... There was a picture of said event but it has mysteriously disappeared :-) We will just say it involved Patrick and pink bear!

 

FREE FOOD FRIDAYS!

IF YOU FEED THEM THEY WILL COME :-)

 

We have seen this event triple in size over the first 3 weeks and expect it to continue to grow. I will be offering a Bible Study on Gratitude after the meal for anyone who would like to stay.

 

was not expecting 40 :-), we had JUST enough to go around!

 

We had a contest/vote to see what color we will be painting the kitchen.....café mocha it is! Now all I have to do is buy the paint and get some students to help paint it.

I had the privilege of picking up two students and bringing them to Westgate chapel.

 

After worship on Monday the girls came back To the house and played catch phase, while the guys did the hard work of breaking down the sound system and bringing it back to the house.

 

Thank you for taking the time to learn about what is going on with ACT on the UT campus. just knowing people read this means the world to me!

 

My 3 youngest girls are doing great, they LOVE school and Paul and them are getting used to getting out the door by 7:40 every morning!

 

How YOU can get involved...

1. your prayers.
2. people to sponser a free food Friday at $40, I can feed 50 students with this amount.
3. your encouraging words and feedback.
4. help in raising my salary for the next year.

if you want to help please go to actoday.org and click on support or write a check to ACT and send it to me at 4923 Cranston, Toledo OH 43615