Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Meeting Place and time
Hope everybody's classes are going well this week. I want to thank all of you who responded in a timely manner to the last update, I really appreciate it. Officially we are having the meeting this Friday, August 29 at 7:00 pm. After receiving the input from everyone it seemed that 7:00 would work best. We will meet in the JCSU room #420 which is the corner board room. Please everyone again bring your schedules, some money if you want food, and your thinking caps! Feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions or concerns. I look forward to seeing you all there. Please let me know if you cannot attend. God Bless and see you all in a couple of days!
Monday, August 25, 2008
First meeting of Fall 2008
Hey everybody! I hope you all had a good move in and are ready for the new semester. Hopefully classes are going well so far for everybody and nobody is quite overwhelmed yet. This update is to let you all know that our first meeting is going to be this Friday night at 7:00 or 8:00 pm. The location will most likely be somewhere at the JCSU, but this may change depending on hours for the food places. I hope that everyone can attend, and please bring your schedules so we can start planning our weekly fellowship meetings as well as outreaches. Please bring some money for food and refreshments as well. Also please everyone bring a mind that is ready to Brainstorm! We are going to be discussing a lot of different ideas for outreaches and the upcoming semester.
Your job is to let me know what time would be best for you: 7:00 or 8:00 in an e-mail. Also please let me know if you cannot attend, so we can figure out about how many people to expect. I will send you all an update with the final time and place a little later in the week. Please contact me if you have any questions or comments whatsoever. For now, God Bless and good luck with the first week of classes!
1 Peter 1:13-16
Your job is to let me know what time would be best for you: 7:00 or 8:00 in an e-mail. Also please let me know if you cannot attend, so we can figure out about how many people to expect. I will send you all an update with the final time and place a little later in the week. Please contact me if you have any questions or comments whatsoever. For now, God Bless and good luck with the first week of classes!
1 Peter 1:13-16
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Gearing Up for Fall 2008
Hey everybody! I hope that everybody's summer has gone well. I personally can't wait to get back to Reno, and hear how God has been shaping you all through mission trips and everything else. Well, the beginning of the new semester is just a couple weeks away, and we are beginning to prepare for CCN's first full semester on the UNR campus! It's very exciting, and I hope that all of you are excited as well.
Due to the fact that we are a newer campus organization and the record number of new students coming in this semester, the first couple of weeks are going to be pretty heavy on promoting CCN on campus. Hopefully we will be able to set up tables during the first couple of weeks, and promote during the club rush times. We'll get the details ironed out, but I am definitely going to need help promoting, running tables etc. so any volunteers would be much appreciated. That said, I know that God will lead us in an edifying and God glorifying semester as long as we keep our sights focused on him!
Also, many of our brothers and sisters in Christ and at Repent and Witness Evangelism Camp in New York as I type this. If you could pray for them, and that God would bless their endeavors that would be great! Also if you would like to pray for CCN on the UNR campus please do so! We know that we cannot do anything apart from God's grace, mercy, and blessing on our lives, so your prayers are much appreciated!
Finally, please e-mail me if you have any outreach ideas, would like to volunteer at all, prayer requests, or would just like to catch me up on how God has been working this summer! I look forward to a semester of serving both you and Christ, God Bless!
Due to the fact that we are a newer campus organization and the record number of new students coming in this semester, the first couple of weeks are going to be pretty heavy on promoting CCN on campus. Hopefully we will be able to set up tables during the first couple of weeks, and promote during the club rush times. We'll get the details ironed out, but I am definitely going to need help promoting, running tables etc. so any volunteers would be much appreciated. That said, I know that God will lead us in an edifying and God glorifying semester as long as we keep our sights focused on him!
Also, many of our brothers and sisters in Christ and at Repent and Witness Evangelism Camp in New York as I type this. If you could pray for them, and that God would bless their endeavors that would be great! Also if you would like to pray for CCN on the UNR campus please do so! We know that we cannot do anything apart from God's grace, mercy, and blessing on our lives, so your prayers are much appreciated!
Finally, please e-mail me if you have any outreach ideas, would like to volunteer at all, prayer requests, or would just like to catch me up on how God has been working this summer! I look forward to a semester of serving both you and Christ, God Bless!
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Hey everyone!
Hope you are all having a great summer so far! I just wanted to do a blog update since it has been about a month since my last one. A few of you have been keeping in touch which is great. I pray that everybody is having a summer of seeking after God and growing in godliness and holiness. I've been reviewing much of the evangelism materials that we will be using next semester, and I just want to say that I am REALLY excited to start the new semester and help change our campus for Christ!
Also, this update is to hound you a bit. Has everybody started reading their Way of the Master books yet? Nearly a month has gone by, and the summer will end before we know it and I just want to make sure that we all have a solid foundation before we spring into action next semester. Remember that when you grabbed one you also promised to read it! :P As you read it please e-mail me updates on how you are liking it and how you have been doing this summer. I'd love to hear from all of you!
Finally I'd like to give some words of encouragement from the scriptures. I know many of us have friends and family that are not saved. We interact with unsaved people on a daily basis, both people close to us as well as complete strangers. I pray that God would use us all this summer to be soul winners and influence peoples' eternities. As you get equipped from The Way of the Master and The Bible, take a step out in faith and engage people in conversations about their eternal destinies.
2 Corinthians 5:17-21 (NKJV)
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,
19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.
21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Paul tells us in 2 different ways how God has now given us the ministry of reconciliation, and bringing people to Christ. God has ordained that it is through us that people shall be saved. We are also called Christ's ambassadors, and God will plead with others through us! Isn't that amazing, God pleads through us if we will simply step out in faith and do as he has commanded. We can be God's tool and instrument for bringing others to Christ, for helping them to inherit eternal life. I pray that we will all have safe and godly breaks, and that we will come back to UNR next semester with a fire and passion for God that cannot be squelched. Keep in touch everyone and God Bless!
Also, this update is to hound you a bit. Has everybody started reading their Way of the Master books yet? Nearly a month has gone by, and the summer will end before we know it and I just want to make sure that we all have a solid foundation before we spring into action next semester. Remember that when you grabbed one you also promised to read it! :P As you read it please e-mail me updates on how you are liking it and how you have been doing this summer. I'd love to hear from all of you!
Finally I'd like to give some words of encouragement from the scriptures. I know many of us have friends and family that are not saved. We interact with unsaved people on a daily basis, both people close to us as well as complete strangers. I pray that God would use us all this summer to be soul winners and influence peoples' eternities. As you get equipped from The Way of the Master and The Bible, take a step out in faith and engage people in conversations about their eternal destinies.
2 Corinthians 5:17-21 (NKJV)
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,
19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.
21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Paul tells us in 2 different ways how God has now given us the ministry of reconciliation, and bringing people to Christ. God has ordained that it is through us that people shall be saved. We are also called Christ's ambassadors, and God will plead with others through us! Isn't that amazing, God pleads through us if we will simply step out in faith and do as he has commanded. We can be God's tool and instrument for bringing others to Christ, for helping them to inherit eternal life. I pray that we will all have safe and godly breaks, and that we will come back to UNR next semester with a fire and passion for God that cannot be squelched. Keep in touch everyone and God Bless!
Saturday, May 10, 2008
CCN is officially ASUN recognized!
Hey everyone! I hope you are having a decent weekend, and really putting in the hours of studying before finals! Just wanted to give a quick update, and let everyone know that as of yesterday, CCN has become an officially ASUN recognized organization at UNR! Praise God! So we are set for next year and we will only have to worry about getting more people to come out to the fellowships, and our outreaches. I hope that you all are doing well on finals, and digging into God's Word daily. God Bless!
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Hey all! Great first meeting tonight. I hope all of you were encouraged and excited for the future of CCN on the UNR campus. In case you couldn't make it tonight, we discussed some relevant statistics and scriptures to the ministry.
-150,000 people die everyday which is 2 people ever second. Every second of the day 2 people pass from here into eternity.
-Only 2% of professing Christians share their faith on a regular basis.
- 90% of men who claim to be born-again Christians have never shared their faith, no not once.
In light of these statistics we asked the question "Where do nonbelievers go when they die?" The answer is Hell. We took a look at Revelation 20:11-15 to affirm this belief. We determined that these people need to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ so that they can receive him as their Lord and Savior. We then took a look at what the scriptures affirm that the gospel is. Based on Mark 1:14-15 and Luke 13:3-5 we determined that the gospel call is both repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. We must call men to repent, as the Lord demands for salvation. "And the times of this ignorance God winked at (overlooked): but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent." (Acts 17:30) That is all men everywhere, meaning everybody. Finally we looked at Ezekiel 33:11, 1Timothy 2:4, and 2Peter 3:9 to see God's desire for the lost. We determined from here that it is God's desire for all to come to repentance and saving faith in Jesus Christ. That he takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked.
Then we briefly went over the style of CCN's weekly fellowships so that we could get a feel for how interactive they are. We discussed briefly ideas for some outreaches and made the point that through all of this we desire UNITY for the body of Christ and that we work together we other campus ministries and not in competition.
Again I was really encouraged by tonight's fellowship, and I hope everybody else was too. We will not be able to meet again until next semester, but we are going to stay in contact and keep everybody updated through this blog. If you missed the meeting and have any other questions, let me know, and be sure to let your friends who would be interested to know as well. God Bless!
-150,000 people die everyday which is 2 people ever second. Every second of the day 2 people pass from here into eternity.
-Only 2% of professing Christians share their faith on a regular basis.
- 90% of men who claim to be born-again Christians have never shared their faith, no not once.
In light of these statistics we asked the question "Where do nonbelievers go when they die?" The answer is Hell. We took a look at Revelation 20:11-15 to affirm this belief. We determined that these people need to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ so that they can receive him as their Lord and Savior. We then took a look at what the scriptures affirm that the gospel is. Based on Mark 1:14-15 and Luke 13:3-5 we determined that the gospel call is both repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. We must call men to repent, as the Lord demands for salvation. "And the times of this ignorance God winked at (overlooked): but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent." (Acts 17:30) That is all men everywhere, meaning everybody. Finally we looked at Ezekiel 33:11, 1Timothy 2:4, and 2Peter 3:9 to see God's desire for the lost. We determined from here that it is God's desire for all to come to repentance and saving faith in Jesus Christ. That he takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked.
Then we briefly went over the style of CCN's weekly fellowships so that we could get a feel for how interactive they are. We discussed briefly ideas for some outreaches and made the point that through all of this we desire UNITY for the body of Christ and that we work together we other campus ministries and not in competition.
Again I was really encouraged by tonight's fellowship, and I hope everybody else was too. We will not be able to meet again until next semester, but we are going to stay in contact and keep everybody updated through this blog. If you missed the meeting and have any other questions, let me know, and be sure to let your friends who would be interested to know as well. God Bless!
Monday, May 5, 2008
CCN's first official meeting
Hey everybody! I hope that you all are doing good, and that everything is going well in preparation for finals week. This update is just to let everybody know that we are still pending official status, but have been authorized to hold a meeting in the meantime. The meeting information is as follows:
When: This Wednesday May 7th at 7:00 PM
Where: Joe Crowley Student Union (JCSU) Room # 323
Why: Learn what CCN is about, our goals for UNR and Reno, and meet the other members
Please contact me at: thetfor3@unr.nevada.edu
if you need additional information, or cannot make it. Please also invite anybody that you think would be interested in evangelism on and around campus. Also, I will be providing a book that discusses the evangelism that we will be teaching and the biblical basis for it. I desire that anybody who is interested get one of these books from me at the meeting, and prayerfully read it over the summer break. I hope and pray that you all can make it to the meeting, and again let me know if you have any questions. God Bless!
When: This Wednesday May 7th at 7:00 PM
Where: Joe Crowley Student Union (JCSU) Room # 323
Why: Learn what CCN is about, our goals for UNR and Reno, and meet the other members
Please contact me at: thetfor3@unr.nevada.edu
if you need additional information, or cannot make it. Please also invite anybody that you think would be interested in evangelism on and around campus. Also, I will be providing a book that discusses the evangelism that we will be teaching and the biblical basis for it. I desire that anybody who is interested get one of these books from me at the meeting, and prayerfully read it over the summer break. I hope and pray that you all can make it to the meeting, and again let me know if you have any questions. God Bless!
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