CO @ GSU (9.23.11)

Hey Team! 

Here's another quick update on life and ministry at good 'ol GA Southern! Corrie and I are doing well and are enjoying our 2nd year of marriage and are learning a lot as we strive to invest quality time into relationships with students.  Those we are discipling and helping to mature spiritually are doing well.  They are all growing deeper with God and are taking steps of faith by sharing Christ with their classmates and intramural teammates.  And they are helping us meet lots of new freshmen in the dorms, too. We are beginning to see lots of spiritual interest pop up in certain friends so far.  This is very exciting for us.  Over 100 people have been coming to our weekly evangelistic meeting called Proximity.  Next week, I'm speaking about the subject of belief and trust in Jesus Christ.  Please pray that some would for the first time put their full trust in Jesus that night.

We are also recruiting to our annual Fall Retreat. We are praying for over 90 students from GSU to come.  It will be in Macon on Sept 30-Oct 2. This serves as a great opportunity for us to go deeper with friends who come and it helps jump start us into bible studies in the dorms when we get back.

Lastly, I want to introduce you to a few influential guys and girls we've been getting around.  They carry so much influence with the rest of the dorm that we believe if God could save them, then they could influence the others to investigate as well.  Two men you can pray for are Akil and Alan.  They both play flag football with me and are spiritually interested in Christ.  Pray for their salvation and that they would one day have a vision and passion to share Christ with the freshman who arrive after them.  And three girls that Corrie is getting to know (and playing flag football with) would be Tori and Jordan and Hannah. Pray for these girls to come to know Christ personally and that God would redirect their entire lives to be lived for Him and his glory!

Thank you so much for your prayers and support which are helping advance God's kingdom here!

Making much of Christ,

Mike and Corrie

mingham@campusoutreach.org

Cell: 706-631-7711

 

     

Pictures: Akil                       Alan                            Tori                    Hannah and Jordan

Seeing God's hand at work!

Hey Friends!

We want to thank you for all the ways that you've been joining us in the work here at GSU.  Your prayers and sacrificial giving are beginning to bear fruit as God is moving in a big way here.  

We had our first Proximity, a weekly evangelistic meeting, this past Tuesday. We had about 90 students come and by God's grace we found a new meeting space with enough seats for 350. We are praying that vision would catch in our students' hearts to fill those seats so we can expose everyone we meet to the gospel of Christ.  For the first four weeks, we are working at Redefining basic elements of the gospel message: God, Sin, Salvation, and Faith/Trust.  We know there are culture views on these issues and we are wanting to contrast them with a biblical picture.

Also, our teams and practices for flag football intramurals have really gotten underway.  Corrie is ministering in dorm called Southern Pines.  She and a few of our students have recruited about 30 girls to play on their team! That is going to give them a great in-road relationally with lots of girls. I (Mike) have been working in two dorms known as Watson Commons and Watson Pods.  The Lord has given us about 25 guys from all walks of life.  We are splitting up into two teams so we can go deeper with each of the students.  There is a lot of excitement from these freshmen about the season and in our new friendships.  God has given us an extreme amount of favor here at GSU.  We are seeing a lot of influential men and women getting connected to us.  

Also, this weekend was GSU's first home football game and it was our first Tailgate of the year.  We were able to set up a pretty attractive event with music blaring, a TV and coach out by the grill with some SEC football on, different tailgate games for students to play, and a massive grill to cook all the hot dogs on for the 75 or so students who came.  It turned out to be a great time to connect and build deeper relationships and trust with them.  It went so well that we were able to sit with a lot of those students at the GSU game (which was lopsided at best: GSU 62-Tusculum 21).  After that about 25-30 of us went to Zaxby's and ate late night dinners and really bonded well.  You could see the trust and camaraderie growing on the faces of our new friends as we spent quality time with them.

We are praying that all these relationships would lead to them saying "yes" to investigating spiritual things with us at our weekly meetings, in bible studies, and by coming to our Fall Retreat in 3 weeks.

Prayer Requests: Join us in praying for the following...

1. For continued favor with these new students. That many would be interested in personally investigating the claims of Christ.
2. For Proximity, our weekly meetings.  That many would come with open ears and open hearts to listen to God's Word.
3. For the upcoming Fall Retreat. We are trusting God to bring 90 GSU students.  Pray for recruitment and an eagerness about our new friends.

Thank you so much for all your love and support,

Mike and Corrie

Pictures below: Some of the faces of those students we went to the GSU football game with.