Winding down at GSU

Fall Retreat Worship

Hello Team!  I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving and was able to relax a little bit!  We have been winding down our time down here at GSU for the fall semester.  Much of our time recently has been spend meeting with our leaders and really challenging them to step up and take ownership of the ministries that God has entrusted to them.  It has been amazing to see the response of so many of our leaders who have been excited to see what this next year will look like for them as they take steps of faith and trust God to work through them.  God truly is amazing and seeing men and women go from not being Christians and not wanting anything to do with God to leading other people to Christ and leading others in their faith through Bible studies and discipleship reminds me of just how big and just how great our God truly is. Also check out some pictures below!

We wanted to take a couple of weeks and send a few videos out of some stories of how God has worked in some of our students lives.  We are going to post a couple videos a week to our blog with some of our students talking about what God has done in and through them.  Below is a video of Shaun Scruggs, one of my guys who has seen incredible life change through Jesus, check out the video, because of God, because of you!

Exciting Praises
-Jay and I were combined able to share the Gospel with every pledge in the Greek system this fall through pledge talks and Bible studies.
 -Ashley has been really encouraged about students being really open to where they are at, confessing their sins in small groups and seeing their need for Jesus in their lives.
-We recently looked at some numbers and realities of our ministries and saw that we now have almost 300 people involved in Bible studies.  It is so cool to see what God has done in just a few short years!

Prayer requests
-Our transition to South Africa would go smoothly, that our final preparations over the next month would go well, and that we would finish well at GSU
-For our leaders, as they step up that they would take steps of faith and trust God for steps they are taking.
-That all the freshmen pledges that I have met with that they would get plugged in to their fraternity Bible study and that they would live for Jesus even in a difficult place to do so
-Pray for our planning as our GSU team plans for next semester and which Bible studies we will do and our talk series
-Pray for Ashley and I as we communicate with our South Africa team and do some pre-planning with them before we head over

Thanks so much for partnering with us to reach the nations for the gospel and for making all of this possible!  Because of God, because of you!

-Nick and Ashley

Greek Bible study explaining the passage before we break up into groups

We started a flag football team as an outreach to people, us praying before the game