Our First Day at SIUE!
This past Monday, school started at SIUE and at many other schools here in the Metro East! In order to gauge students’ spiritual interest and find students searching for truth, we and our student leaders set up a table for two days at a hot spot on campus. There, we met students, and invited them to take a short spiritual interest survey. In these two days, we and our students made contact with over 840 students! In the coming weeks and months, we will be calling and meeting with students who indicated an interest in spiritual things in order to share with them the message of Jesus!
Ryan, Abbie, Casey, Devin, Brandon, JB and Adam.
Our students engaging with others and doing surveys!
Adam inviting students to check out things we have going on on campus!
Gathering students at our table, giving away free stuff, doing surveys…
Devin talking to some Nepalese students about Jesus.
Casey and Adam.
A Day on the Lake
A few days ago, we had a chance to spend a day at Abbie’s grandparents’ lake house about 4 hours away from St. Louis! It was a great time to relax and spend some time with Grandma and Grandpa!
Abbie water skiing...concentrating hard!
JB tearing up the lake on the jet-ski!
Grandpa and Grandma on the boat!
We Found a House!
The last few updates we’ve sent out, we had asked everyone to be praying for two big things: that we would find a place to live, and a church in the city we’re moving to!
The last four days, we’ve made a trip each day from the western St. Louis suburbs to Edwardsville, IL, the East St. Louis suburb that is home to Southern Illinios University Edwardsville.
After four days of searching in the Edwardsville area for a place to live, the Lord has graciously supplied us with us a home! We found a great house for rent--only two miles from the campus we’ll be working on, and in a great neighborhood. The Lord was kind to let us find a place quickly--now the stress of the search is over, and we can get moved in in just a couple of weeks!
This past Sunday, we had the opportunity to visit two great churches. We’ll continue our search, so please continue to pray for the Lord’s leading as we find a place to connect with the local Body.
The front of our little house!
We’re excited to have cookouts with students and friends in our back yard!
Leaving Kansas
We are heading out of Kansas today. We’re excited to be on our way to St. Louis! Above is a picture of us with Abbie’s family. Sad to say good-bye...but we’re excited for our next adventure.
We’re Still in Kansas!
We’ve been in Kansas City for a little over a month now. Our time here has been an incredible blessing. We’ve had the chance to meet with old ministry partners, and meet new ones as well. The Body of Christ, as always, continues to be a huge blessing to us. We are expecting to pack up and move to St. Louis within the next couple of weeks! As we get closer to moving, we’re starting to do fun things like looking online for places to live, and trying to remember what we’ve had in storage for two years, and what we still need to buy to furnish an apartment…