October Update! (Here's what September brought.)

Hello all!

I hope you're enjoying fall, I know I always look forward to this time of year. I love this season in general, but I also love this season especially in campus ministry. Cores have been going for a few weeks, and you really start to see who sticks around and starts making meaningful friendships, and fall camp always gives us such a good time to really spend a lot of time with the new students who have come in each year.

Fall camp was this past month! We got 24 hours where our whole Collin Ministry got together out at Camp Copass near Denton, and it was a ton of fun.

This is Ryan and Christian's core. Ryan and Christian are two of our corefas
that I get to meet with weekly since they're in my peer team. Love getting
to see what God is doing through them meeting and befriending these guys.

This is the core facilitated by the two other guys in my peer
team, Matt and Joseph.

We've been talking a lot this month about how we are sent by God. We are sent to love people, serve them, disciple them and teach them how to follow Jesus. This is such a key idea that we wanted to spend a few weeks really digging into this idea with them. We don't want our faith to be something we just believe in, but we want to act on it and continue to bring about God's kingdom on earth by doing as He did while He was here in the flesh. Please pray for our students to find purpose in the call of the disciple to come follow Jesus and live a life that is on mission with God. This is often a big transition for students to consider, as most of us come from a life lived for very different goals. Pray for them to consider joining the mission!

Around 120 students made it to this year's camp!
It was super exciting seeing all of them make the time for this.

We're already around halfway through the semester! Our student leaders are amazing, and are working hard to spend time with people, invest in them through studying the Bible, and God is working. Please pray for their continued energies and for their attitudes to be strong during this month. Thank you so much for all of your support and prayers, it means so much. Let me know if there's anything at all I can be praying about for you.

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