2025 November Update: Deepening Family

When the semester comes to an end and the holidays approach, the academic demands increase as classes wrap up. So as exciting as Thanksgiving break and Christmas break are, the consistency of attendance with ministry fluctuates drastically. Students are pelted on all sides by expectations, growing pains as discipline is needed, and an anxiousness to go home. We stress the necessity of still treating this community of Christ as family, and as such the necessity to celebrate the holidays together. One would only miss the holidays with family under extreme circumstances, and we should be no different. "For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother" (Matthew 12:50). Many small groups are wrapping up with a Friendsgiving to eat together and celebrate. And then we as a whole ministry will finish with a Christmas service in December.

Pizza Theology

We had Dr. Rikk Watts come out again to speak to our students on the Gospel of John for Pizza Theology. Dr. Watts has become more and more integrated with our staff and our ministry over the years since first coming in 2016. His vast biblical knowledge and his deep devotion to Jesus has been essential to the growing understanding of God in our ministry. Ov
er 450 students came to listen to him. If you're interested in listening to what he taught, you can go here! One of our values is to think and understand our faith at the level of our highest education. If you've received a college degree, you've proven that you can learn at the college level. So, why wouldn't you learn about your faith at the college level as well? 

Keep FOCUS Growing

During the month of November, we host our annual fundraiser, Keep FOCUS Growing (KFG). There are a lot of things that are required to run a ministry. Many of y'all support me and allow me to spend my time with college students and other pastors, training them up to be ministry leaders and "thoroughly equipped for every good work" (2 Timothy 3:17). But behind us ministers on the frontlines, there are background supports that need to exist for us to do what we do. Administrators, financial software, website hosts, outreach materials like food, games, sports equipment, Bible study resources, and lots more are all necessary to keep this ministry running. Not to mention the funds needed to plant new ministries at the many unreached campuses in the area that have no campus ministries presently at them. Y'all have been so generous to me, but permit me to ask even more boldly if you would consider giving to KFG here. We have $75,000 of matching funds available if we can raise it!

Thank You!

Regardless, thank you so much for supporting me and enabling me to invest in generation after generation of college students. Jesus continues to change lives, flipping things upside down, and the world has been marked forever by his impact. Thank you for being a part of what God is doing here, and I pray that you would see some of the harvest that God has brought!