Dreams Coming True

The last few months have been crazy in campus ministry. Hence why we haven't blogged much. Many apologies!

In the midst of this whirlwind, I felt like I needed to follow up on a previous post that talked about a direction God seemed to be guiding CSF toward. I feel like if there were ever a post that hits on what we wanted this blog to be about, -- "We hope this blog is a record of our encounters with our great God and the people He puts in our path." --- this is it.

After that previous blog post, crazy things began to happen. Check this out--

1. I have been given an amazing opportunity to meet with area High School Youth Group leaders on an almost monthly basis.
2. We scheduled an event where we essentially took our "Edge" service to the High School Youth service at our church (South Side Christian Church). We had the service February 28th. We brought lots of college students to the event and they did a great job of connecting with the high schoolers. During the service, Soebeck Song (the Youth Leader) initiated a time in which all the students (high school and college) prayed over the seniors. Afterward, we were able to get contact info for those coming to UIS and LLCC, and provided info for those not going to UIS & LLCC.
3. Without any prior knowledge, our friends the Blacks decided to bring the Lakeside Christian Church High schoolers to the Edge on March 12th to feed us dinner and to stay for the service, exposing each of them to campus ministry!
4. A student from Rochester Christian Church asked Todd to show him around campus. On March 8th(I think I got the date right) Todd and I gave him the tour and we were able to share how important a community of believers on campus can be. In addition, he just happened to run into 3 of our student leaders during the tour.
5. This Friday, one of our students' parents is cooking for the Edge and bringing their High School youth group along, exposing them to campus ministry.
6. We scheduled an event on April 23rd to bring the South Side High Schoolers out to campus for a Friday night service so that they could see what campus ministry is like actually on campus. Soebeck thought that this would give them several opportunities to really get exposed to campus ministry. The event has turned into something much bigger. After simply telling the student leaders this event was happening, they said they wanted to invite their youth groups as well. Without trying to make it happen at all, we now have several of their youth groups attending this event. We have had to try to find a bigger space. In addition to this, we got a call from a former student who is a rapper who just happened to have the 23rd available and wanted to see if we would like him to give a concert (not knowing this event was going on). So now, we will be having a concert after the Edge by a rapper who is a former student of CSF.

Pretty sweet. Can't wait to see what He does next!!!
-dave