By the time you are reading this the sidewalks and the atmosphere of campus
will have changed. The silent beauty that had settled on campus for the summer has given way to a new buzz of excitement and energy. As freshmen are walking on to campus for the first time they will are filled with so many mixed emotions of excitement and fear.
There will be around 5,000 new freshmen on the University of Central Arkansas (UCA). They all arrived on Sunday, a few days before the first day of their college career begins. We are making it our mission to be on campus as much as possible to meet these new freshmen that are now looking for community and family.
Mark 1:18 “‘Come with me. I’ll make a new kind of fisherman out of you. I’ll show you how to catch men and women instead of perch and bass.’ They didn’t ask questions. They dropped their nets and followed.”
We brought together our leadership team the weekend before move in day and we taught them the way Jesus taught His disciples. Reading through the book of Mark together we found five themes that Jesus had when interacting with His disciples. He called each of them to follow Him, He showed them how to live, He taught them what the kingdom of God was like, He entrusted them with those truths, and He sent them out to share the truth they had discovered.
Mark 4:1-2 “He went back to teaching by the sea. A crowd built up to such a great size that he had to get into an offshore boat, using the boat as a pulpit as the people pushed to the water’s edge. He taught by using stories, many stories.”
So we literally got out on a boat and started teaching the way Jesus did. Teaching our students how to call, show, teach, entrust and send others the way Jesus did. And then we prayed over our student leaders to go and make new friends and disciples among the freshmen coming to campus.
Thank you all for your sacrifice in time and in finances to send me into unreached places. Thank you for passing on the heart of God to the next generation! - Alyssa
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