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You seem to argue that Christianity was an overwhelmingly good social force for women.

RS: It was! Christian women had tremendous advantages compared to the woman next door, who was like them in every way except that she was a pagan. First, when did you get married? Most pagan girls were married off around age 11, before puberty, and they had nothing to say about it, and they got married to some 35-year-old guy. Christian women had plenty of say in the matter and tended to marry around age 18.

Abortion was a huge killer of women in this period, but Christian women were spared that. And infanticide—pagans killed little girls left and right. We’ve unearthed sewers clogged with the bones of newborn girls. But Christians prohibited this. Consequently, the sex ratio changed and Christians didn’t have the enormous shortage of women that plagued the rest of the empire.

What about in the Church itself? How did women find their place?

RS: Women were leaders in the early Church. Paul makes that clear. And we have Pliny’s letter in which he says that among the people he’s tortured were two “deaconesses.” We’re not helped by Bible translations that render “deaconess” as “deacon’s wife.” I’m not saying the Church was ordaining women in those days. Of course it wasn’t. But women were leaders, and probably a disproportionate number of the early Christians were women.

Some of their husbands may or may not have been, but the women were there. There’s another thing we don’t understand: In every single society of which we have any evidence at all, women are more religious than men. We’re not sure why. But what that has meant is that religious movements are disproportionately female. That’s certainly turned up in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when we have good numbers. People in the early Church remarked on it back then. The early church fathers noticed that the movement had more women.

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Leaders wrestling with how to reach students more effectively.

GAP Action Plans

Ownership
Your team is not your staff team—your team is all your owners.
Commercials (suggestions for high leverage actionable steps) --think about how to include these practical steps in your action plan:
Include students in ground floor of creating strategic plan—otherwise they'll never be owners.
Discuss the "model" with your staff team.
How do we improve by one letter grade?

Recruiting
Principles:
Continue to foster the Connection between student ownership and recruiting in our thinking and practically
We're one movement here in the Northeast—look for ways to lean on one another—

Action Points:
Recruit interns.
Corollary: recruit them to join our staff.—NE avg is 20% join us—other regions have seen 40-60%--how do we keep them?
Recruit for summer projects.
Region: Life Options conference for state schools—we've raised money, RT wants to explore that with LLLs, local teams
Opportunity for regional team to talk with students when we make our visits/speak at weekly meeting/fall retreats

Evangelism
Ongoing question of how do we as staff who are outsiders equip the students who are cultural insiders to be motivated and effective in their relationships and contexts?
Suggestions: Staff do EV
Is there something concrete we can move students toward so that their surface area increases also? Exs. Moving into dorms, significant involvement in other students organizations.

ESM
Our new mystery date
Figure it out together
We have the highest number of international students in the nation (105,000)—Bridges is a valid ESM audience—we'll have a Bridges track at the BWC, for Christian and nonChristian intl students, and for CRU students & staff to get exposure to/training in that kind of ministry.
We're 2nd in the nation in number of Asian-American students
Make sure your plan includes an ESM component.

WSN
Increased freedom in where you pursue WSN involvement—has to show up on plans for fall
Options:
Traditional 5 stage partnership—in Kaz and OEX
Entrepreneurial
Boston-Africa
UConn and Paul C. and Syracuse—Italy
NYC—London
Nationally: Africa is back on the table, summit happening right now
Just want a place to go--Partnership in a box, or Mexico City—can go for any length of time, just put the students on a plane
The last unreached section of North America is Quebec, (esp Quebec City) something for northern New England schools to consider
Make sure your plan includes WSN component.

From David Broadwell, CCC director at Virginia Tech:

"We had a prayer meeting Monday night for our students and the students of some other organizations. Most students are shocked and numb at this point, not sure what to think and feel. I feel the same way.

We know of at least 2 of our students who are not accounted for at this point, as well as 1 who was killed who had come to our meetings.

All of this information is coming through the network of students, as no names have been officially released yet (until after the families are notified--most likely Tuesday). I think that is the hardest part--the waiting--not really knowing who has been touched by this tragedy.

Our staff team is spending the day in the Cru office Tuesday--making ourselves available to pray with and/or counsel students.

We will take a break to attend the university-wide convocation at 2 p.m. where the Virginia governor is slated to speak.

We are gathering at noon on Wednesday to pray with other Christian groups on the drillfield--a very central place on campus.

Please pray that amidst it all that the Lord would be glorified, families would be comforted and students would grieve appropriately. I have a feeling no one is going to know how to move on from here."

Evangelism - Fast fire updates

What's been your greatest success?

What has worked well?

Where are you stuck?

What's been your biggest surprise?

UMass

1. Dinner line surveys—5 people trusted X through staff EV
   
2. Surveys
   

3. Stuck—staff doing outside Ev, trying to model inside

4. Stories every week at weekly meeting, they invite friends to hear that, but don't share story with friends outside the weekly meeting

Brown

1. Mexico over Spring Break—broke many barriers

2. Great divide between spiritual and secular livesàthey don't share their faith

Failed in having busy ministry schedule-staff and students

3. Geoff: —Brodie: some students now have real r/ss with non-believing friends

4. Improve staff EV this year

Yale

1. Adam Meredith—student director at WW last summer—heart for prayer, reaching out in residential college—taking 2 guys out to do ministry EV

3. For many students the Gospel not good news—they don't know how their spiritual life affects other parts

Staff accessibility to non-Christian students in appropriate ways

2. multilevel events--Large scale events every 2 years—medium size: preEV campaign at Thanksgiving --Open Forum: invite friends and they can ask any question

4. There is a place for us to do min EV on campus to some level, can't be too high profile—surveys, dining hall

Dartmouth

1. Social/recreational opps that have generated EV conversations—hikes in fall, students coming to staff homes

2. Coverage strategies—surveys—spiritual perspectives interview that's one- on -one and interactive

Created contexts for our students that are more accessible—"100 conversations" = 100 lunches with new students, with friends—opened account at Quizno for students to use

3. Staff leading charge in EV and modeling in a way that's not weird

4. how hard it is for staff do stay focused on EV

UConn

1. Aligning core leaders to core DNA

2. —most active of staff team in EV

Worked well: surveys, have seen many come to Christ there, students have set up weekly EV time

3. Aligning AIA and Impact movements to EV

Staff EV numbers are low—but still have seen 30 come to Christ

4. UVM time—best spring break experience we've ever had, students came back fired up about EV

Southern New England/Upstate NY CAT

1. Alpha at UMass Dartmouth—integrating new believers and non-believers into ministry there

3. Lack of initiative and follow through with good ideas; busyness of staff and student leaders

2. Worked well-- campaign style EV—I'm Sorry campaign at UMass Dartmouth, idea from Blue like Jazz; Southern Conn—Jesus Loves you Day

Day of outreach at BWC

4. Katrina relief spring break trip—high level of student interest was surprise

Albany

1. A team came in—St. Louis team's visit

2. Identifying student leaders on different campuses.

Quest, RQQs

3. too early to tell

4. Those things still work

Rochester

1. 5 every student.com sites—RIT: 1000 visited in one month, and 100 indicated decisions

3. Kids haven't seen fruitàdiscouraged about sharing their faith

2. Worked well: our first intern

Spiritual multiplication teams (old Discovery, Discipleship, Action)—seeing 3^rd generations, and one group has 4^th starting

City wide CRU

Senior celebration awards night—honored them, gave gift and commissioned them, gives model to underclassmen

Devpt council and endowment cabin

Bridges is strongest ministry (100 involved)

4. Syracuse came and did Shock and Awe over spring break

Western NY

1. Student bringing up reaching freshmen next year and asking how will we replace ourselves?

2. Us vs. them attitude with students about EV

3. Facebook advertisting—a lot of EV contact

Super Christmas Awesome Time—SCAT, student idea

Student initiative to have 500 EV conversations in the spring, half way there

Lauri taking students out sharing

Soularium

New Orleans—Canisius non-Christian student came

FR,SO leadership team grabbing WBS

4. Biggest surprise—the sticking quality of Facebook even when ads aren't run

Maine

1. On line-every Maine student .com—23 decisions, fun emails--Better approach is to become friends on Facebook instead of trying to meet them face to face

2. Group and personal EV—seen 16 decisions with 600 conversations

Worked well--A few students have led others to Christ

3 sets of dining hall surveys—community needs was least effective—spiritual journey survey led to best convs and follow up

3. Stuck—staff being able to follow up new believers

Small percentage of believers share their faith—getting whole body involved in ministry

4. Biggest surprise—the whole new level of involvement in web site with Facebook ad blitz in Feb.

UNH

1. Students are cultural insidersàleads toà

2. Greatest success—one student was trusted leader at FR orientation eventàinvited to share 2 hour version of her story with 250 freshmenàongoing dialogue with many of them

3. Stuck—staff distracted with everything else there is to do—continue to come up against phobia of making a choice about the Gospel

4. Ongoing bewilderment—continue to not see conversions through ministry mode EV, and following up FSKs even though convs are great

NYC

1. Greatest success in Decisions—Bridges

Greatest success in Process—soularium—getting people involved in convs about Gospel

2. Access to campuses, going from outsiders to insiders, going from spiritual conversations to actual Gospel convs and point of decision—getting staff to do EV in field

3. Bridge building—Suzy —Lindsay—Wagner bringing non Christians to NO

4. Biggest surprise—how much EV has increased due to monthly staff EV day

Katrina trip during week of Oasis—years past zero interest that week—biggest spring break trip ever that week (Holy Week, Passover)

Boston

1. Alpha

Big Break and winter trips—b/c they learn how to share their faith, a lot of EV happens on their campuses esp week after they come back

Brian shares Gospel with all his key contacts, never assumes anyone is a Christian

2. Students who are insiders are being trained to do EV by staff who are outsiders?

The involved new believers have been involved way before their decisions

How do staff become cultural insiders in Cat? Stuck in training students in natural mode?

1. Surprises—a lot of the gathered Christians aren't really Christians
   

How much the students do want to be cultural insiders and go out, out, out instead of bringing friends to our meetings

Small Group Discussions

Why do drag racing tires not have tread? Increased surface area results in greater traction and speed

The sweet spot in Golf—good clubs but lousy swing--depends on tools and the strategy with which I employ the tools

The question of how to increase surface area is more often about strategy and not tools.

Discussion question: How can we increase surface area, for staff and students?

Slightly different question for us as leaders/builders of evangelistic enterprise: (How do we systematically and in a "take new ground" kind of way, get in contact with lots of non-Christian students?)àsimple steps that are easy to repeat over and over to maximize yield)

Surface area = time in relationship to share the Gospel with unbelieving students

Another way to look at it—Jesus was adept at communicating the Gospel/sharing about the Kingdom of God and gathering an audience to hear—our tools are great, but how do we consistently and effectively gather an audience to communicate with?

NY State

Jesus' example—he gathered an audience b/c he did things no one else could, supernatural—maybe we're good at talking about the Kingdom, but do we really model it?—take steps to do supernatural things—can I lay hands on people and pray for their healing, pray for their brokenness?—when people see the kingdom of God, and not just hear about itàsurface area—when people peer in and wipe away the frost from the window and say I've never seen that, and I want itàneed Power to generate surface area

Western NY--Student started dance ministry—her class was transformed and healed by Jesus—their prof even asked about it and was interested in Bible study

Idea for directors who have even less time for EV than other staff—as leader of campus group going to other campus leaders--Pastor in Boulder goes to community leaders and asks what the 3 greatest needs are and whether he can pray specifically for those—not weird b/c it's one campus leader going to other campus leaders

Tim: regional rep for Campus Institute for Revival and Awakening

Tammy: is the region considering training in healing prayer?

Model insider EV to students by bringing them into adult life situations—ex. kid's swim class

Help students experience the Globe/get out of America/other cultures—they see God's power there

Nailing where God's moving and joining him in that movement—Bono, 30 million AIDS orphans, children dying of lack of clean drinking water--people all over are joining in these places

Targeting demographic by demographic—not just broad, but leaders and persons of peace

Ivy League

Reimagining ministry mode EV—its value and place when effectiveness has been in other modes. But what you lose without ministry mode= training, how it builds our identity—helps with the culture of expertise where students won't try something if they know there's a chance they'll fail at it--Might do it more at Big Break or summer projects and not on campus b/c have to keep a low profile

Trying to find ways to integrate staff into students' social lives, then staff can follow up and model

Joining student groups

Increase staff visibility—having planning times and doing emails on campus instead of home

Service and finding the cracks—keep asking: how can we service the campus? All the needs seem to be met, but ineffectively done by other groups, or students are too busy or proud to admit they have real needs—what students really need is a radical break from their schedules—a several hours long dinner with real conversation at staff homes—our students don't yet invite friends to that

Time in staff schedule to do EV, not just to get quota of EV appointments but to say: go figure out how you'll do it, and shared accountability as a team—how are you investing in that? It's a regular staff discussionà how can we share in that and encourage each other?

Students don't lack contacts and context, but they don't know what to do with it—Yale: our most successful coverage strategy might be one student reaching one student, one at a time—the critical piece is what do staff do to develop them in it?

UConn—collecting staff stats, include number of spiritual conversations (not limited to Gospel presentations), to show that we value that for staff

NYC—set team goal for number of Gospel conversations—can then talk about progress as team regularly b/c whole team owns it

Bret—hearing a lot about need for modeling and training in natural mode EV and that happens best in ministry mode—idea: creating small windows of ministry mode experience throughout the year, "getting more and more reps"—small, not just Spring Break, but overnights

Brian—do students have too many contexts, so all their relationships are shallow? Need to help them set a limit?

Pat—we have to help students value a third space, have to train them in spiritual conversations and model how to turn a conversation, set a personal goal—gives me something real to talk with students about

Soularium—buy it from crupress.com—started in Spain as a way to get into real spiritual conversations, summer project used it 2 years with stock photos and added spiritual conversation questions, then did their own images

This tool can be used however it works for your context—from this morning: great way to train students in how to turn from conversation to spiritual to Gospel—intention of this tool is to get into dialogue, not to launch right into a spiritual conversation—difficult for people to lie about their lives when they're focused on images—gives them freedom that there's no wrong answer and helps them talk about their real experience

Worked well at Big Break—great for training students where you won't go back to a friend and use Quest survey or KGP booklet, but would show this to friends---helped students also see how helpful it would be to memorize a Gospel outline b/c otherwise they can't make the transition

Idea for transition is to use Rembrandt's "Return of the Prodigal Son" and share the story with them

Ask artists' community at our campuses how to use this tool, or ideas for other tools

Post results of image surveys on the website—NYC Summer Project will be using the results this summer to create their artwork, can intro it that way

Metros

Meeting felt needs ie. Pen pals, online-Facebook, Thanksgiving dinners, prayer tables, conversation groups for international students

Instead of creating our own CCC social events, get involved in the events the campus already has set up—Walk for Cancer, Relay for Life, ethnic groups like Korean Students Association, cultural shows, free movies

Food Does It—does the campus create that?

Best EV for Harvard students is having non-Christian friends share meals with Christian friends and seeing the difference in how they relate

Idea: decode the campus by looking for what's already happening that we could jump on and enhanceàincreases surface area and helps us make grateful friends

The tragic events on campus

New England State schools

Prayer on a regular basis—can't quantify the effect—how much of a prayer investment are we making? Challenge to tithe some time to pray weekly with the leaders of the other Christian groups on Campus Crusade for Christ

Are our tools inhibiting us? Are there tools that would help us increase surface area? (like John Vamp's Acts 17 tool)

Morning Devotion - Rich Swanson

Take out a piece of paper:

What do you worry about? What are you fearful of?

Many fears boil down to whether God will take care of me and the people who are important to me.

When we have fears we often turn to passages of scripture than recall God's peace in the midst of anxiety:

Jeremiah 29:11
¹¹ For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for wholeness and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

The Sermon on the Mount is a picture of the Kingdom:

Matthew 6:25-33
²⁵ "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? ²⁶ Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? ²⁷ And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? ²⁸ And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, ²⁹ yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ³⁰ But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? ³¹ Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' ³² For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. ³³ But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Inside the Kingdom God cares for me.

The Kingdom is not eternal life in the future, but the kind of life that can be lived out right now. Generosity, peace, provision, all of these are part of Kingdom rule. Redemption, nearness to God,

3 Applications:

This kind of Kingdom fights evil in every form. God's Kingdom does battle against evil. When Jesus described the Kingdom for John the Baptist: blind see, lame walk, deaf hear, poor raised up, good news preached. Schindler's List contrasts great evil with great generosity. This is like unto the Kingdom.

In the Kingdom, I don't have to worry about what comes next. Jesus cares for me so I can meet the needs of others.

In the Kingdom, my story matters to God. But it also matters to the world around me. Eugene Peterson's 5 Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work mentions the book of Ruth. It is the story of a seemingly insignificant story that actually affects the world. My story can impact the world and matters to God. The message that we bring about the Kingdom is the best news available today. The best news is that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

I love times like these because we talk about expanding our heart for others and helping our students to the same. We talk about the Kingdom and our stories and our student's stories and how they matter to God. The Gospel is a message of hope in a dark and fallen world. This message is so important that we who carry it, Jesus called the Light of the World. As we reflect Jesus we reflect his light. I am so encouraged to be with you because you are people who desire to reflect the light of the Gospel.

Discussion on Recruiting

Objectives:

Surface best practices

Surface regional ideas

Walk away with concrete ideas of your own

Data

Last 3 years-- number of staff, stinters, and interns reported—broken down by from our region and from outside

Add your own numbers for students sent on summer projects

2 rounds in groups: following up from this morning's discussion:

What in your experience has prevented those student owners from joining staff?

What would propel student owners to join staff?

New England State Schools:

Biggest pt of discussion was: what are students experiencing during their time involved? Fellowship, staff that are financially healthy, good relationships, used by God in ministry, experience a summer projectàhow can we as staff help them with their student experience?

Regional: serious questions about BWC—numbers have dropped for BWC conf and summer project numbers have gone downà RT wrestle with: is it really a winner? Is what we're getting with a couple of extra days, over the winter break worth it? Rich: SP numbers haven't gone down over the last few years—the next 2 years should be telling.

Open the process with interns to join in the middle of the year

Regional visits—hearing "John's boss" talk to students means a lot more to them—open their eyes to other opps on staff—come to speak at weekly meetings on Why Summer Projects? Why BWC?

A life options conference

Help local teams continue to think well about right topics that help shape a healthy, attractive experience for students

Metros:

Desire for students to feel they've been used significantly by the Lord

Clarity on what exactly staff do—hard for Cat students to see--demystify

How will they be able to use their gifting or expertise? It's a mystery

Region: help field staff learn to be good recruiters

Able to reduce amount of money NYC interns need to raise

Help connect partnerships with other regions for recruiting

Securing housing in cities

Tammy: Trying to keep as many gifted people on the field as possible, not siphoned off into "middle management"

Career tracks for staff: come with us for 7 years and you'll have your masters; artists can do their art and work with art students in ministry—Rochester talking with Northeastern Seminary/Roberts Weslayan about interns getting academic credit towards seminary degree

Echo project in GNW—new staff numbers went from 5 to 35 in 5 years—target leadership kids, by invitation onlyàthey connect relationally across the region

Artists: part-time internship 3 days/week—the rest of their time they do art and can sell it b/c it doesn't belong to CCC

Semester-long internships?--Other regions are currently doing semester-long WSN internships (Stop-Out)

New York state:

I'm a sender of money, not a goer

Pride-don't want to do the next thing expected of me

Mark: Not able to determine location of my job—with other jobs that I pick, I'm also picking location

Conviction/guilt

Propels:

Promoting staff opportunities-travel

Matching funds for interns

Feeling wanted as part of a team

One-to-one dinners for seniors fall of senior year

Region—paying student loans or interest on loans during internships

Recruit new staff for specific locations

Matching funds for all interns in the region

Where do the students we want go instead of staff? Are their pockets we should look at?

Increase communication to local team about regional successes on other local teams—people want to join a "winning" team

Help track high school kids going from NYC to Buffalo——example—requires great spirit of cooperation

Job hosting board for specialized needs different teams have—regional board on Facebook

Find a way to keep track of interested alumni who go to work in cities (Boston, NYC)

Ask every new staff class and intern class: how many came to Christ as students?

NS is promised something we never knew they were promised—better communication with LLLs about process

Job opportunities posting on line when students order a product (cru.com—everystudent.com—facebook—godsquad—BWC registration site—local ministry websites)—not just how you join but posted specific job opportunities—what are the sites they're going to?

Don't wait until their junior/senior years—FR and SO have time to poke around websites, JRs and SRs too busy, have already decided

Ryan: Problem with external job posting sites is people don't understand support raising required.

Ivy schools:

Debts

Parents

Low pay

Lordship

Unprepared for staff

Propels:

Alumni support network tied to debt relief program—issue of people who say I'll work for awhile and then join staff—how many do?

Ivy Leadership conf-has been very fruitful—addresses so well the issues that these students are dealing with

Facebook group—"I'm an Ivy grad who joined staff of CCC"

Publishing Jon Hinkson's Ivy League bio sketches—how God used a real student and here are the real obstacles that student faced

Discussion on Ownership

From Pat: were there specific actions that those leaders took to change the tide: to augment the number of cultural insiders, that in turn helped lead to stronger culture of evangelism?

WSU: CD asked 4 students to move into dorms, the next year 8, the next year 16…..

Bowling Green: CD required every student on their leadership team to also be involved in another (non Christian) organization on campus.--> not just good ideas, but they also took specific strategic next steps

Now: specific, personal actionable steps in the arena of expanding the number of student owners that you have—some ideas:

John V.: have small groups responsible for an area of campus (geographic or affinity)--built-in expectation that as a small group member, you're involved in something bigger

Matt. C: how do we involve students in formation of groups that are centered around reaching specific groups? Open up Town Meeting to whoever wants to come: not so much structure, but heart and idea level

Jim: give small groups (students not staff) the exercise of decoding the campus, using one page Decoding worksheet from Tom Virtue—reconvene, discuss, help them process more deeply with staff inputàdeepens their ownership of the Gospel on their campus or on a neighboring campus.

Under alignment category: spiritual sensitivity to others and spiritually growing—give further input on how to make this model more helpful

Morning Devotional – Race Day

Jim Layman

Today being Patriot’s Day, our thoughts turn to running races. “Chariots of Fire” depicts runners in a race. I explained to my boys, in Eric Liddell, you see what’s in 1 Corinthians 9:

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. ²⁵ Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. ²⁶ So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. ²⁷ But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

Eric Liddell followed his Olympic fame and glory with obscurity in China. He was not running for perishable glory, but imperishable glory. This motivates me to run hard and long.

Some here are tired of running and talk of running farther is exhausting. For you I would comfort you with Paul’s words from 1 Corinthians 3:

Philippians 3:8-11 ⁸ Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ ⁹ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith- ¹⁰ that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, ¹¹ that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

Paul was not just pressing on to plant another church or do more work, but pressing on to know Jesus, to be in relationship with God. Wouldn’t it be well for us to say that our goal is pressing on to know him more and enjoy him more?

We hope to talk about the ministry in these days, and also connect with each other. We hope to give you time to connect with the Lord as well.

Students reaching Students in Albany

This week we will plant new campus movements in the Albany metro area. Albany is of course the capital city of New York and home to many significant campuses, SUNY Albany, Rensselaer, and Union College among them. An exciting partnership is taking place where students from campuses in St. Louis are coming all the way up to the Northeast to help reach students on campuses where we currently have no ministry. Students reaching students and students reaching the world. That’s what we’re about.

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