Student Leader’s Camp

This past weekend we held a camp for our student leaders preparing them for the 4500 first years that arrived from Monday.

We do this because one of our strategic focuses is having a student empowered Campus Ministry.

Last year, in February, we had over 100 first years give their lives to the Lord during the first 6 weeks of campus opening! We know God’s heart is for more to know Him so we’re going out in faith!  Here’s what all our our throughout the campus:

• Carry the first year’s bags into res
• Make connections and build relationship with the first year’s and share the gospel with them
• Do social events in the resses (braais, etc)
• Invite them to our campus service on 16 Feb which will be a massive welcome service aimed specifically at first years.

The four of us (below) were the campus staff giving oversight to the camp:

Prayer request
Please pray for more and more students to know their God and have a revelation from heaven for their studies and their future.

Here’s a few pics from the camp:

Worship & prayer

Fun & games

Strategic planning

Ministry

Campus Leaders Summit 2013

We’ve just come back from our annual Campus Ministry leaders summit in JHB with all our full-time & part-time campus ministers from across Southern Africa, giving feedback for the year and planning for next year.



In the picture right at the top is all our staff members who are serving in campus ministry. All the full-time guys are supported through partnerships like yours with us.

Together we are reaching about 6000 students currently in Southern Africa.

Our hearts cried out to God as we know there over 1 million tertiary students in RSA and statistically most young people who lose their faith, do so while on the campus.

We are aware that along with other ministries that focus on youth, we have our work cut out and our faith is high that with God nothing is impossible.

Here’s some photos from the summit:  

We had a formal dinner on the last night:

Ladies Outreach to Old Age Home

September was our community mission month and the students from one of Chinelle’s connect groups decided to go to the old age home in Woodstock to spend the day with the elderly there.

From Chinelle:

Most of the old people at this home don't ever get visitors or family members visiting them and some feel abandoned. It's heart warming to see their faces light up as the youngsters walk in for a cuppa tea & a chat.

This is our second time going there and they absolutely love the company of young people.

Our hope is that God will touch their hearts through these visits and that we may get opportunities to share the gospel to those who don't yet have a relationship with God.

For the students, they were so blessed to bring a smile to the elderly and to pray with them.

5 to 9 leaders at Leo Marquad

This first photo is from end of 2012 when I handed over the connect group leadership to 5 new leaders that I’ve been walking with personally:

And then in these photos the current leaders are handing over the connect group leadership to 5 new guys that they have been walking with relationally.

In 2013 we were reaching just over 20 students in the residence. This year we’re trusting God to reaching at least twice that number through the guys in the connect groups reaching out relationally in the res.