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Hello all

If you prayed for the prayer requests last update, THANK YOU. It has gotten a lot smoother working with UNT to accomodate our event needs. We are in a room that holds us much better now and not having to scramble or turn people away. 

As we head into October we're hitting some critical points in getting people to go from people who come check out our community to people who who stay committed to small groups and committed to one on one discipleship. We're still having the good problems of growing pains, trying to find enough people to help us lead 1-1 bible studies with students. Pray for that. 

We have had an explosion in baptisms lately! This is so exciting and has been such a neat move of God to witness. Every week at our weekly gatherings we have new announcements of baptisms for people in our community and its super encouraging. 

This month is fall retreat, so please be praying that students make it to that, we need that time together to solidify new relationships and cast more vision for them being faithful Jesus people beyond their college years. 

I'll have more updates next month, this one will be a little bit short but we are super thankful for the way this year has started. We are praying for people to know God and be able to be transformed by Him this year. 

Ryan


 

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