Beaver Dam Baptist Church

This past Sunday, I had the privilege of speaking in front of my home church, Beaver Dam Baptist. It is always refreshing to go back and see lots of familiar faces who have supported me through all of my work and I always look forward to going back. I, as has become a pattern, was blown away by the support. I thoroughly enjoyed speaking to everyone after the service and catching up with people I don't see nearly enough.

During my talk, I spoke about how God has been working in my life to get me where I am and why I am working at CSF. After that, I introduced the church to CSF and what we do here, using the "Funnel of Ministry" to explain how we try to minister and reach people on campus. My home church has definitely been instrumental in where I am in my spiritual walk as well as developing my values and what I believe. I will always keep this church with me as I begin my life in ministry.

I hope you will all be praying for me as I continue to work here and look forward to speaking to you more in the future.

January Update

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Years! Since graduating in December, I have begun (as of January 2nd, 2012) to work full time at CSF. We kicked off the year and the semester as a staff by taking a staff retreat to Gatlinburg. We worked hard while there to prepare ourselves for the upcoming semester.

Since I have now begun to be full time, my roles have switched around a bit. I'm am excited about some of the opportunities I have. Here are areas of the ministry that I currently work on:

• Shift--Shift is one of the biggest areas of the ministry. Each week at 7 PM, we pack anywhere from 100-200 college Freshman in CSF to enjoy good food, meeting people and a short talk. It is the way we get freshman involved in the ministry and I am excited to take a leading role in allowing that to happen. 
• Core Groups--This is the real heart (or "core") of our ministry. I am the leader of about 7 of our student leaders, which entails a small group Bible study and accountability time each week. It is a way that we pour back into our leaders who pour into our ministry. 
• Core Group Curriculum Team--This is pretty self explanatory. We write the curriculum for the upcoming semester's core group. Last semester was the "Parables of Jesus" and reading the "Great Divorce" by CS Lewis. This semester, we are going to enter in to a very in depth study of the Gospel of Luke, in which we will read the entire book multiple times as well as studying particular parts in depth. 
• Pancakes--Another major part of our ministry, "Pancakes" is an area of the ministry that campus ministries all over the nation have adopted. We simply serve Free Pancakes EVERY FRIDAY at Midnight. We usually have well over 100 students from campus come and enjoy this fun atmosphere. The vision is that they keep coming back and keep meeting people involved in our ministry to get them plugged into smaller groups. 
• Prayer Ministry--We obviously want prayer to be at the center of everything we do. While I am taking less of a role in things like "prayer night" from last semester, I am still involved in working with the prayer team throughout the week.

Thank you all for your continued prayer and support!