CO National Conference!

Each year, Campus Outreach brings in the new year with a bang! The past several years, we have partnered with CO Greenville, Lynchburg and DC to hold a conference for students exploring Christianity and looking to deepen their walks with God, in our nation's capitol. This year, we will be in Chattanooga, TN with every other Campus Outreach region in the country! We are expecting anywhere from 4000 to 5000 students. Our speakers this year include: John Piper, Matt Chandler, Harry Reeder and JD Greear. This is the first conference in ten years that Campus Outreach has held that will be a national conference! Check out the conference website: www.conationalconference.com to watch some of the video promos!

Here's the best news... YOU ARE INVITED! Whether, you are a friend, supporter or alumni of Campus Outreach, you are invited! Amy & I would love to have you join us to see first hand the ministry that you are supporting and praying for. I think of the first four verses in the book of First John, "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life-- the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us-- that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete." I'm always struck by how imminently present the life and ministry of Jesus was to John. We would love for you to hear, see, look upon, and touch one of the most significant events that we hold and for our ministry. Would you consider joining us?

If you are interested in joining us and you are a supporter or friend of our ministry, send me an email for more information (zfulginiti@campusoutreach.org). If you are an alumni of Campus Outreach, check out this website: www.conationalconference.com/alumni. We have an entire conference track just for you! Obviously, many of you will not be able to join us due to prior family and holiday obligations... but we wanted you to at least know what you are welcomed to join us and we would love for you to be there!

Greek Ministry:
I wanted to pass along a report from our campus director at UNCC, Andrew Hathaway. Andrew recently saw a freshman fraternity member of Lambda Chi meet Jesus for the first time. Last week he was given 25 minutes to speak to an entire pledge class in one frat and then he met an officer from Lambda Chi who invited him to come and speak this Sunday to some guys at his house. When Andrew got there he found out the officer had set up for him to speak for an hour to all the freshman in the fraternity. Andrew got to share his testimony and a full explanation of the gospel. During one of the bible studies with these frat guys, one of the guys just opened a bible and started reading in Genesis 1. He had never opened a bible before. The guy looked up from his reading and said to Andrew and the other guys who were waiting for things to start and said, "Did you guys know that it talks about how God created the world in here?!" Coming into this year, we had no significant contacts with any fraternity members and were praying for God to open doors. Thus far, Andrew has made significant contacts in three different fraternities and has been holding Bible Studies with members of each. Praise God!

Prayer Requests:

1. For God's glory to be made known on the campus of UNCC
2. For National Conference recruitment. Pray that God would bring many freshmen to raise up a new generation of students who love the Lord!
3. This weekend is our ministry's "Mobilization Retreat". It is an overnight retreat just for seniors, designed to help equip them to successfully transition from the campus to the real world. There are 12 students from UNCC who are attending. Pray that God would give them a heart to be laborers beyond the campus.
4. For our family! Pray that Amy & I would be godly parents and that Zachary would come to know Christ very early!

Family Pictures:

September Update

What's Been Going On?

Investing in Athletes: This year, Amy & I both have a unique opportunity to reach athletes at UNC Charlotte. Amy has been leading a Bible Study of three girls who play on the women's soccer team. These are girls who are Christians but are praying to reach their teammates. See the picture below! I have started a ministry on campus just for varsity student athletes called Athletes Connect. It is a chance for them to come, get to know athletes from other teams and grow spiritually. Our first meeting was last week and we had about 12-15 athletes from 4 different teams. I was able to share with them about building your house on the rock from Matthew 7. It was a great start!



Pig Pickin: The first week on campus, we held a Pig Pickin right on campus in front of two dorms that house over 500 people each! We had members from our church come a cook the 150lb pig for over 14 hours on site, it was awesome! Approximately 400-500 people came, got to eat some amazing food and hear about our ministry. It was a huge success!

Fall Retreats: Every fall, we try to offer an opportunity to grow spiritual for students on campus through our fall retreat. This year we are having two retreats, one for the guys and one for the girls. The men's retreat is entitled: Are You Man Enough? The women's retreat is going to be called: She's Gone Country! These retreats offer our students a chance to bring their friends who are't Christians to a context where they will have a lot of fun and be challenged by the gospel. We are hoping for over 300 students between these two retreats, many of them will not know Christ.

Testimony

Read below a testimony of a student who recently attended "The U':

"what you talked about tonight really got to me .. opened my eyes to alot and i really took it to heart. you were talkin about going out of your comfort zone and when you dont have control you go to things that you know you can control .. i do that alot..honestly i am scared to go out of my comfort zone from fear of disapproval or consequences of doin so .. i seek approval for everything i do . things i wear . things i talk about. etc etc. things i buy. situations i put myself in. when you were talkin about what things you invest your money for entertainment of seeking satisfaction. i turn to drugs. alcohol. acceptance and yeah for alittle while those things keep you satisfied but after a while...it actually will leave you depressed. very unsatisfied. and i want satisfaction...and i want to always have it . my relationship with jesus? i guess you could say . i dont have one...but i want it...i want that satisfaction..."

Family

This week Zachary just turned seven months old! He is growing, getting big and developing quite an appetite. In the last few weeks, he has begun teething and you can see a tooth popping through his gums. Though he's definitely been a little more fussy, he's getting through it with a lot of drooling and wanting to be picked up. We are very blessed by him and we love him so much!

Prayer Requests:

1. Students to come to faith in Jesus Christ. Many evangelistic Bible studies are going to be starting soon!

2. Fall Retreats - that many unbelievers would come and respond in faith in Jesus Christ.

3. Ministry to athletes through Athletes Connect. Pray that God would open doors to teams that we haven't met anyone in yet.

4HG & Start of School

4HG: SBP Wrap-up

Thank you for your prayer for our Summer Beach Project! It was an amazing summer as 150 college students and 25 staff studied the glory of God (4HG: For His Glory). It is remarkable to think about the impact these students could have on their eleven different campuses throughout North Carolina and DC area. These students are not only established in their walks to study the Bible and pray, but also in their ability to share the gospel with their classmates. We pray that our college campuses are getting 150 "laborers" this fall semester!

School Starts Friday!

Freshmen move in this coming Friday! The past several weeks our staff team has spent the majority of our time planning for the first six weeks of school! It seems almost surreal to be honest. The start of school always comes so fast. Many of you may remember what you felt on move-in day of your freshman year: anxiousness, excitement, uncertainty, freedom! We hope to serve these students by helping them move into their new homes and begin to build relationships with them. One of the ways we hope to meet students is to have a huge Pig Pickin' right in front of where all the freshmen live, it will be awesome!

**What's Next for the Fulginitis??**

If you didn't receive our letter in the mail, we posted it online here: http://followingthefulginitis.blogspot.com/2011/08/whats-next-for-fulginitis.html. We have undertaken a new role within Campus Outreach Charlotte and are excited to begin! In short, we are beginning to move our of the COC administrative office and into an Area Director role, serving the campus of UNC-Charlotte. We would love for you to take a minute to read this letter to all of our supporters. We are thankful for your financial and prayerful partnership, we could not do it without men and women like yourself. If you have any questions please feel free to send me an email at zfulginiti@campusoutreach.org. Thank you!

Prayer Requests:
1. That we would serve the campus in a way that glorifies God as we help move students in.
2. That we would meet the students that are hungry for spiritual things.
3. That we would have a blast with our Pig Pickin' & meet a ton of people!

Below are some pictures of our family:

What's Next for the Fulginitis?

Glorifying God by Building Laborers on the Campus for the Lost World

Combined, Amy & I have given almost 16 years of our lives to the vision of Campus Outreach as both students & staff. In the past year, we've been faced with the decision of "do we want to give the next five years of our lives to this same vision in this same context?" Is God still calling us to the college campus to fulfill the Great Commission?

I'm sure that when many of you began to support us, you may have thought that you were just trying to help out a young, 22 y/o, recent college graduate who didn't know what they wanted to do, but was passionate about the Lord... we might have thought the same thing about ourselves at the time! Much has changed since the days that Amy was graduating from Wingate and I was graduating from Elon. No longer are we two single, early 20-somethings, fresh out of school; today we are both in our mid-late 20s, married, and have a baby boy! Wouldn’t it make sense to start pursuing a career? What is God calling our family to next? We've been wrestling with those questions ourselves. But time and time again, we still keep coming back to the fact that our passion for the campus still burns. After much prayer and counsel, we want to continue to give our lives away to the campus, to “glorifying God by building laborers for the lost world.” We are willing to take a step of faith and raise our family in this environment for sake of the Great Commission. We are committing to stay with Camus Outreach Charlotte for the next 4-5 years, maybe more... and we are thrilled!

What will we be doing? For the past three years, we have been serving primarily in our financial office, running the administrative aspect of our ministry and partnering on a limited basis with the staff at UNC Charlotte. We will now have the opportunity to serve as an Area Director of UNCC. What this means is that we will be responsible for directing the movement on campus, shepherding the other staff at UNCC and serving on the Executive Leadership team for Campus Outreach Charlotte. We feel humbled by this lofty calling and inadequate for the task at the same time. We truly believe that God is calling us to this role even though it feels so much bigger than we are. We will begin serving in this capacity beginning in August 2011. It’s an exciting time to be a part of the UNCC community, as the campus explodes in growth and looks forward to its new football team coming soon. The need there is great.

What's been true before is even more so now: we need you. We need our support team to rally around us. There are going to be significant challenges to raising a family in this context. Life is just more complicated with a baby (but so much more joyful)! Here are two ways, we would like to ask you to partner with us:

1. Pray! We will need your prayers now more than ever. Pray for us as we transition. Pray for spiritual protection from the forces of darkness. Pray for wisdom and discernment as we lead and direct the staff and students at UNCC.
2. Continue to support us. It is so critical that entering this new phase of life and ministry we have a solid, support team behind us. God has provided richly through you over the past several years and we want you to continue to join us in this mission. Will you, in faith, continue to give not to us, but to the Great Commission being fulfilled at UNCC and ultimately, the world? We hope you will, we need you.

This verse comes to mind when the Lord places you on our hearts, Philippians 1:3-5, "I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now."

Thank you for joining us in this great mission!

For the World,
Zach and Amy

SBP 2011: 4G

3G? 4G? 5G?

I'm sure that many of you are familiar with Best Buy's Super Bowl commercial with Ozzy Ozbourne and Justin Beiber in which they laugh at how fast technology changes from 3G to 4G to 5G to 6G, all in a single commercial. No, this summer we aren't getting into the technology race but we will be spending the summer looking at a different kind of 4G. Our theme for the 2011 Summer Beach Project is For His Glory (4G). We will be teaching over 150 college students from eleven different campuses about how all that we are called to do and how all the God himself does is: for his glory. One of the key passages that we will be studying Isaiah 43:6-7, "I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made." In less than one week, we will be packing up our things and moving to Myrtle Beach, SC for a month! It will be an adventure to live in a hotel room across from the beach with a three month old, but we love the Summer Beach Project and are excited to see all that God will do.

Family Update

One of the things that we've noted is that the adjustment from a married couple to a family of three is a big transition! But we have been blessed, Zachary is a happy baby who is already sleeping eight hours most nights. He loves to smile and laugh, kick and stand up. Sometimes he seems frustrated with his little body because he wants to get up and walk and run around. He is such an inquisitive little boy! We have loved being parents.

Prayer Request:

1. For our summer in Myrtle Beach that we would be able to serve the SBP and have a healthy life-work balance
2. For Zachary to continue to grow ans for us as parents.
3. For the 150 students at SBP. Pray that God would raise up laborers!

Enjoy the pictures of Zachary below:

March Madness

Little Zachary, Jr. just turned five weeks old! We can tell he is growing as he's put on 2 lbs since we brought him home from the hospital. He likes to sleep, eat and poop right now! We are very blessed that he is a happy baby who doesn't fuss or cry excessively. The past couple of weeks we've been able to bring him to church, a cookout for UNCC students and to a wedding in Durham. He is a joy to be around and we love him very much! We would love your prayers for him and for us as parents. Below is a passage of Scripture that we have been praying for Zachary.

Colossians 1:9-10, "And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God."

Summer Leadersip Retreat

This weekend, 75 student leaders will gather in Matthews, NC from three different summer projects with CO-Charlotte. This retreat is focused on preparing the students to be leaders with the SBP, Cross Cultural Project in Johannesburg, South Africa & the Charlotte Summer Ministry in Matthews, NC. Zach will have the opportunity to be one of the four main speakers and will be delivering a message on Spiritual Leadership. Please pray for our retreat!

Calendar

April 1-3: Summer Leaders Retreat in Matthews, NC
April 2-3: Church at Charlotte Missionary Awareness Weekend
May 2: Our 2nd Anniversary!
May 12: Final Exams at UNCC
May 21: Depart for Myrtle Beach and the Summer Beach Project
June 19: Return from the SBP

Prayer Requests:

1. For our new family of three and for Zachary, Jr. continued health, growth & development.
2. For Zach as he speaks at our upcoming Summer Leadership Retreat.
3. For our staff team as we prepare for the Summer Beach Project
4. For Christ to be at the center of all we do.

Meet Zachary James Fulginiti, Jr.

On Tuesday, February 22, 2011, our first son, Zachary James Fulginiti, Jr. was born at approximately 9:20am. He is a beautiful boy who weighed 7lbs and 6ozs. We are thrilled and as proud as we can be.

However, as many of you know this was a long difficult process. Amy began feeling contractions on Sunday night at 11:30pm before she had gone to bed. Over the next 11 hours she labored at home through the night. We had a previously scheduled doctor's appt at 11:20 that day, which we kept. At that appt, Amy was measuring 3-4cm and was looking great! The only thing we were concerned about was the potential that this could be false labor. We returned home and continued to labor there until about 6pm. Contractions were getting closer together and more intense. When we arrived at the hospital, Amy was measuring 5-6cm and still looked great! A couple of hours later revealed she had progressed to 7-8cm dilated and we thought we might be able to deliver this baby in a couple of hours. Unfortunately, Amy stopped progressing after that. For the next 3 hours she remained at 7-8cm but with contractions growing closer and much much stronger. All along we had planned and prepared to have a natural childbirth. But as midnight passed and the 25th hour of labor, with no signs of progress and no sleep for almost 36 hours, we decided it best to have an epidural to allow Amy to rest and gather strength for the delivery.

The epidural was not bulletproof as it only worked on half of her body for a time leaving the other half is a great deal of pain during the contractions that were taking place. Fortunately, this was resolved but not after at least another hour of painful contractions. As of 5am, Amy was still 7-8cm dilated. Dejected and exhausted the doctor's recommended taking pitocin as it looked like there was no end in sight. Finally, around 8am we began to push. Amy did an amazing job and finally he came out around 9:20am! Amy was unbelievable during the whole process. She made it through 25 hours of labor with no meds and by the time Zachary came she had not slept more than a few minutes at a time for 48 hours. She labored for almost 34 full hours!! What a trooper, my wife is absolutley amazing!! I really do look back at the last two days (in addition to the 9 months prior) and marvel at her faith, endurance, and perseverance. She is my hero.

We are so blessed and felt deeply cared for by our friends and family. Your prayers made a tremendous impact on us. Our boy is beautiful and healthy, more than we could ask for! Thank you!

Love,

Zach, Sr., Amy & Zachary, Jr.

2.5 Weeks Left

Baby Due: March 7th
In just 19 days, our first child, Zachary James Fulginiti, Jr is due! We are so excited about this and ready to meet him (Amy is particularly ready for him to come)! We are putting the final touches on getting his room together, setting up his crib, putting our hospital bag together, etc. and everything feels like it is approaching really fast. In the past month, we've been taking a birthing class, a new daddy bootcampus class and have attended a parenting conference to help prepare us for labor & delivery and life as Mom and Dad. A week ago, we had an ultrasound and Zachary, Jr was weighing 6 lb & 3 ozs. We feel blessed that so far he looks like a healthy baby!

Winter Blast 2011
This coming weekend is a significant event during the course of our spring calendar. It's our Winter Blast retreat that will be held in Asheville, NC from Feb 18-20. We are prayerfully expecting 250 students from our campuses to attend. Unfortunately, we will be unable to attend due to travel restrictions so close to our due date but we would love your prayers for this events. Here are just two quick prayer requests for Winter Blast:

1. Pray for students to grow in their walks with God.
2. Pray for students to begin to make godly decisions about their summer plans.

If you want to follow along and see some of the Winter Blast updates, check out this website: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23winterblast2011 or watch this youtube video about what the retreat's

content will be focusing on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eoi3kQeErHE.

Here is a picture of Amy when she was about 32 weeks pregnany.

Would you join us in prayer during these next 2.5 weeks until he is due? Here are some specific prayer requests:
1. Pray for the health of Zachary, Jr. and Amy during there last weeks of pregnancy, leading into labor & delivery
2. Pray for Amy that she would be able to rest and sleep during the night before he comes. It's been hard to get any rest since he is so active and moving around during the night.
3. Pray for us as parents that we would be wise and godly in our parenting.

Thank you!
-Zach & Amy