I failed to blog during our Christmas party so instead I am writing to you from a special evening of original music. One of our students, Edward, is a grad student in musicology and he has put together an Advent celebration highlighting John the Baptist. He has written music for it and we are gathering to hear his concert.
Last night we had a wonderful evening celebrating Christmas and our fellowship together. Everyone brought food that they had made, including Thomas' famous jello. We all made paper snowflakes and hung them around the room and on the tree. We sang carols and then built gingerbread houses. Ryan, a civil engineer major from Wentworth school of technology, built an incredible ranch style house with a garage. It was amazing.
Edward has started his musical presentation. Looks like we have some visitors here who don't normally come to Chi Alpha. I'll talk to you later.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
A Few Highlights
The last few weeks of the semester have been a whirlwind of activities. I feel like I have been non-stop with all the ministry that has happened. Here are few highlights:
- We have had 2-3 visitors a week at our last 5 Tuesday Night meetings. That's so exciting! And they have returned!
- Thomas and Robert have made some good contacts with freshmen men in the dorms the last few weeks. We don't have any freshmen men involved in our group.
- We had a wonderful weekend retreat with our student leadership team. They came back refreshed.
- Gene and I had 6 students and Chi Alpha alumni at our home for Thanksgiving. It was a day of food and relaxing conversation.
- I connected again with M. and A. I spent a couple of hours with them at their sorority fund-raiser - "Manicure for a Cure" - a breast cancer awareness event. They were very happy to see me and we exchanged contact information this time so that we could keep up. I am going to invite them to our Christmas party tonight.
- Gene has been doing an incredible job at our Tuesday night meetings dealing with apologetic topics with a question and answer time after each. Our students have many questions about their faith and they really appreciate having a place where they can ask them.
I have appreciated your prayers. We are still in need of finances to pay a few debts left from last year's outreach events, and to cover the cost of our fall retreat. Please continue to pray for God's provision. Everything we are doing this year has been by faith. It has been encouraging to see God provide.
Classes end on the 10th, but before that we have our annual Christmas Party. Tonight at 7PM we will be celebrating the birth of Christ together. Pray that the students would invite all their friends, including the preChristian friends they have. I will blog from the party to let you know how it goes.
- We have had 2-3 visitors a week at our last 5 Tuesday Night meetings. That's so exciting! And they have returned!
- Thomas and Robert have made some good contacts with freshmen men in the dorms the last few weeks. We don't have any freshmen men involved in our group.
- We had a wonderful weekend retreat with our student leadership team. They came back refreshed.
- Gene and I had 6 students and Chi Alpha alumni at our home for Thanksgiving. It was a day of food and relaxing conversation.
- I connected again with M. and A. I spent a couple of hours with them at their sorority fund-raiser - "Manicure for a Cure" - a breast cancer awareness event. They were very happy to see me and we exchanged contact information this time so that we could keep up. I am going to invite them to our Christmas party tonight.
- Gene has been doing an incredible job at our Tuesday night meetings dealing with apologetic topics with a question and answer time after each. Our students have many questions about their faith and they really appreciate having a place where they can ask them.
I have appreciated your prayers. We are still in need of finances to pay a few debts left from last year's outreach events, and to cover the cost of our fall retreat. Please continue to pray for God's provision. Everything we are doing this year has been by faith. It has been encouraging to see God provide.
Classes end on the 10th, but before that we have our annual Christmas Party. Tonight at 7PM we will be celebrating the birth of Christ together. Pray that the students would invite all their friends, including the preChristian friends they have. I will blog from the party to let you know how it goes.
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