February Praises and Prayers

Praises:

• My trip to Mexico City was amazing and incredibly helpful in preparing to lead our trip this summer and being motivated for the trip. 
• God blessed the outreach at UVU and we were able to start several new GIGs out of this.
• We have around 15 students committed to camp so far. 
• We were able to take some much needed time off to go camping.
• An intern team has committed to doing a training at Dixie State next fall (we hope that out of this experience one of these interns might be called by God to go on staff there). 
• Our faith dialogue went incredibly well and we are planning a follow-up event!

Prayer Requests

• Dixie State: we have had a difficult semester at Dixie.  It has been a struggle to get students to meet with us (because of their schedules). Please pray that God would raise up Christian leaders who are gatherers and who are missional.
• USU Eastern: Even after two days of tabling on campus, we have not found any other Christian students.  Please pray God would send us a Christian student to lead the Bible study or that one of the current Bible study members would decide to follow Jesus and be willing to take over the study. 
• CAMP:  Pray for Justin and Samantha as they prepare to teach students for 8 hours a day.  Also pray that more students would commit to coming and that any barriers (including finances) would be torn down. We are also seeking a church to spend the night at on our way to camp (our usual church is unavailable); please pray that we would find a willing host. 
• Samantha's Prayer for camp: That my Old Testament class would come away with a picture of the whole story of Scripture.  Also, that they would have new confidence that God is unchanging, that He has always had a plan to restore us to Himself, that the Old Testament is vital to our understanding of the New Testament, and that it's okay to engage with the parts of Scripture we don't like or don't understand.
• Justin's Prayers for camp: Please pray that the Mark 1 class would grow in their understanding of who Jesus is and what He has to offer.  Also, that they would grow a new love for the Bible, learn how to study the Bible for themselves, be healed in areas God wants to heal, and grow in community with one another. 
• GIGs - Please pray for Rilla, Vianney, Jessica and Shanan as they lead GIGs with non-Christian students.  Please pray for Alyssa, Zach, and our other student leaders who are trying to start a GIG with a friend that they have. Every single person who has come to faith in our UVU chapter has been involved in a GIG.  Pray that these students choose to follow Jesus as they study Scripture with our leaders!