Book of the Summer

We are asking our students to read through Michel Green's wonderful book "I Believe in the Holy Spirit". You can read with them by purchasing the book through the link on the right. Every purchase kicks back some money to our ministry at BU. 

In fact check out our bookstore on our website www.bostonuchialpha.com. Part of every book purchased from that website goes toward ministry to the students of BU.

Thanks for looking!

The Most Prepared

We finished our planning for next year last week and we are the most prepared than we have ever been at the end of a school year. We have every Tuesday night topic chosen and the date they will be presented for the first semester, and all the topics we will present for Spring semester. We have narrowed down a list of training content that we will be gathering this summer and we have September all planned with the students. Wow, that feels good!

For the next week I will be slowing down and resting. The first week of June our daughter Laura graduates from high school and from June 20-24 Gene and I will be attending Incite - a professional training conference for Chi Alpha pastors in the Northeast region. I have never been able to attend in the past but this year the dates were good and a church is helping us pay for the registration. I am very excited to be able to go.

Wrapping the Year Up

Last Tuesday was our last meeting together for the 2010-2011 school year. We worshiped, shared communion together, affirmed each other and prayed together. It was a wonderful evening.

We also met with the returning students this week planning next year's activities. The students planned a picnic, dessert night, harbor cruise, game night and movie night. We even planned all the way to the Christmas Party in December. We were impressed with their excitement to reach out to the campus and have fun together, too.

Now, we as staff, will spend a week planning next year and making assignments for our work this summer. We are all tired and ready for a short break, but we do not stop working in the summer. We all work on our content and training materials during the summer months. I love the time to be able to spend studying and meditating on God. He refills and refreshes me in the summer.

We are still face a challenge of paying our outstanding bills from this year and last, but we had three churches come through to help us pay for our Easter Dinner and Year End Celebration. Thank you so much for your continued prayers concerning our finances, both ministry and personal.

Year End Celebration

Wow, we had such a wonderful evening last night as we celebrated our year together. Jean Peteet, our faculty advisor, opened her beautiful home in Brookline to us and provided an incredible dinner for us. We played bocce in her yard, enjoyed homemade gourmet cupcakes,(from chef Gene Breitenbach) and honored our seniors. We hung out for awhile reminiscing and playing our favorite songs - Jean has a piano and we brought instruments for the students to play. We all had a very special time together.

There are a few seniors this year who are graduating that I will miss a lot. Amanda and Karen have become good friends, and Chi Alpha and I will miss them so much. Amanda will be attending graduate school in North Carolina in biochemical research, and Karen will be going on to nursing school and public health, hopefully in California.

Every year is bittersweet for us. Loosing  great students is hard but sending them out is so exciting. Thats what campus ministry is all about: meeting a student in her freshman year and discipling her all the way to her senior year and then commissioning her to go out as a world changer. I know I will hear stories back from our alumni about how they will impact their world for Christ.

This is what you support us for, to influence the future scientists, doctors, politicians, artists and teachers. They are the world changers in our culture and most of them come to Boston to be educated. Thank you for helping us to disciple the students of today who will change the world tomorrow.