Wednesday, June 29, 2016

so its been a while since I blogged, so I thought I would update everyone!
God is moving in big ways here in Chicago summer mission. I have been sharing with students and making great relationships with students from all different campus. its been really cool seeing how people respond to the gospel! thank you everyone for helping me with this opportunity in being able to further Gods kingdom by supporting me. I have learned a lot from my internship here with cru where we work hard to create marketing strategies for future conferences by cru along with designing and coming up with ideas for videos and products used here at Chicago summer mission.
a few days ago I faced my first real time crunch with having to edit a video with hours of footage in only 4 hours, I created a minute and a half long video and it wasn't my best work but I relied on God to help me get it done on time for a meeting we had later that day. its been a blessing so far, I will try an come on here and blog a bit more for the next few weeks! thanks again

Friday, June 10, 2016

Well today Marks the end of the first full week at Chicago Summer mission 2016.
there are 97 other students here and 56 other people on staff with cru. my Michigan State campus has 8 people from it which I am really thankful for. over the course of the week while many other students are finding jobs, I have been interning with cru. the internship is called Crossroads. there are 20 students in crossroads, and 5 staff, plus 1 volunteer staff (someone on staff with cru but works for free). we have had crossroads on each day of the week except for Wednesday where everyone in crossroads and some other students will go to schools like Illinois institute of technology(IIT), University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), and University of Chicago (UC). I am at assigned to UIC each Wednesday where I will be sharing my faith with students on a college campus. and in the evenings on Monday and Thursday we have sessions where we have teachings and worship at a church called Harvest church here in downtown Chicago. on Tuesday nights we have our small bible studies called "action groups" mine consists of 4 students including myself and 2 staff. we are studying 1 peter for these first 5 weeks of the 10 week summer project. while it seems that almost all the time we are together in this Christian community we have had some great time to ourselves on Wednesday nights where we have our "night with the lord" and we are all reading our bible, praying, listening to worship music. (really anything that connects us to the lord.) on Friday nights we have free time to do as we please. Today since its Friday I am going to be getting dinner with my older brother Paul. that's pretty much where I am at right now. I plan on posting again soon :) .

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

This is my first post on my Blog for Chicago Summer mission. I intend on making posts on this blog during my Trip to highlight what is going on. I appreciate everyone who is praying for me and everyone who is supporting me in this step of faith. thank you so much!