Student Planning Retreat!

Back to back retreats! It was very tiring, but it was such an amazing week!

First, I want to thank you all for your prayers, this was a great retreat and we definitely saw some amazing things happen this past week! So, for those who do not know, I went on our student planning retreat which is where students from the 4 campuses we are on come together to get training from the missionary team and help develop faith goals and things they want to see God do on their campus for the upcoming year!

So, we had 21 students come, which is awesome! The campuses are growing and it is exciting to see these students passionate and so excited to lead their campuses to Christ! The students worked hard at getting vision for their campus and are so excited to get back to classes and start reaching out!

One very awesome story to share is about 3 chinese students that came...their names are Tu, John, and James and they have been hanging out with Student Life (Campus Crusade) for awhile, but have not made a decision to follow Christ. On retreat, God opened John's heart and John decided he wanted to follow Jesus, which is SO exciting!!!! We received a new brother in Christ and were able to rejoice and celebrate with him! The other two students, were definitely more interested and I would love to ask for prayer for them, that John would continue to develop his relationship with Jesus and that Tu and James would continue to seek and question!

So, that was definitely the highlight for all of us, but it was just such an encouraging retreat seeing students so excited about the Lord and reaching their campus for Christ and even getting vision on how to reach other campuses in Sydney as well! This year is full of amazing faith goals and I am stoked to see what God is going to do through these amazing students! :)

Thanks for all your prayers, this weekend I am off to New Castle to visit some friends and relax, but I will be back to work on Monday! :)

Erin