Fall Getaway!

Two weekends ago, we joined about 400 students from the Metro St. Louis area on Fall Getaway! Fall Getaway is a retreat that Campus Crusade puts on for students to get away from campus, hear from a great speaker, spend time with one another, and doing fun things like hiking, horseback riding, climbing...! Fall Getaway is a huge opportunity for students to go deeper in community with one another, and a great opportunity for evangelism as well!

We took a group of 29 students from the Metro East (SIUE and SWIC) to Fall Getaway! Several of the students that came do not know the Lord--it was a great time to share the Gospel with them, and for them to ask questions about who Jesus is! We really saw community among our students deepen at Fall Getaway, as well as a desire to continue to reach out to others who don’t know the Lord--praise God with us for this!

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What is the Quest Survey?

One of the tools we use to get into spiritual conversations on campus is the Quest survey. The Quest survey is a five-question survey--the questions are listed above! Every day on campus, we take our student leaders with us and approach students on campus by saying something like, “Hi, I’m Abbie and this is my friend Candice. We’re with a student organization on campus and are getting students’ opinions and thoughts on spiritual things. Would mind taking a five-question survey? We’d love to get your thoughts.” We find that almost 100% of students are willing to engage in a spiritual conversation in this way.

The first two questions give us a chance to get to know the student we’re talking to. The second two allow us to gauge where a student is spiritually. The last question allows us to transition to the Gospel. if a student indicates a high level of desire to know God, we transition to sharing the Gospel by saying something like, “You know, Maggie, Candice and I actually believe it’s possible to know God personally. If you have a bit more time, I’d love to explain to you how I think that’s possible.” Many times, students will want to hear the Gospel! It is very exciting to be able to be so intentional in our evangelism, to initiate conversations, to use the survey to find the “good soil” and to share the Gospel with those who are ready to hear it! Praise God with us that we have already seen seven students place their faith in Christ from doing evangelism on campus!

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Photo Scavenger Hunt at the Zoo!

After our scouting trip last week, we took a group of students to the St. Louis Zoo on Saturday! Throughout the week, we are challenging students to take big steps of faith in ministry--to share their faith, lead Bible studies, initiate with new people...Doing fun things like this allows us to take a step back, build community among students, and to allow everyone to get to know each other better!

To spice up our visit, we did a photo scavenger hunt. Check out some of our funny pictures!

Spelling “zoo” with arms…