Spring 2012 Update

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Following the Fulginitis: March 2012 Newsletter

This week, Zach will be in Myrtle Beach on a setup trip for the 2012 Summer Beach Project. Pray for favor with prospective employers, churches and facilities! Thank you for your prayers, partnership and gifts to our ministry with Campus Outreach at UNC Charlotte.

Winterblast!

This past weekend, we had the privilege of leading a retreat called "Winter Blast" with 282 students from UNC Charlotte, UNCG, Wingate, Davidson and App State to Asheville, NC. It was a great weekend in which we explored gospel 1) identity, 2) community and 3) mission. In total almost a dozen students professed faith in Christ for the first time! Upon returning from the retreat, one of the girls who professed faith during the weekend, called one our student leaders and asked for help to break free from an addiction to marijuana. The student leader had become a Christian at last year's Winter blast and is now helping her fellow sorority sisters experience the freedom that comes with faith in Christ! Ministry at UNC Charlotte is going incredibly! Our staff members, Kristin Niland and Andrew Hathaway, are doing an amazing job and God had been opening door after door in the Greek system. Over half of the fraternities and sororities now have Bible studies being conducted on weekly basis. At the retreat, two Lambda Chi brothers came and they got ROCKED! Both of them are confessing believers who have struggled to break free from sin patterns. This retreat really set them on fire for Christ! After the retreat on Sunday night, Jay, one of the two brothers, stood up before his whole fraternity (60+ brothers) and told them he would no longer "drink and smoke marijuana with them" and he asked them "to respect his decisions for Christ, and not to ridicule him." Needless to say, this sent some shockwaves amongst the brothers. This is partially why there were 13 brothers at the bible study this past Monday night. These brothers want to know what happened in Jay's life and why all of a sudden he wants to stop partying with them. They want to know where his newfound joy comes from. Pray for Jay, the other members of Lambda Chi and the entire Greek system at UNC Charlotte! There has regularly been about 125-150 students attending our weekly event ("The U"). Starting next week, we will be starting a teaching series on the Attributes of God. Over a dozen of out student leaders are leading their own Bible studies, helping new believers be established in the basics of the Christian faith. It is exciting to see multiplication happening on campus!

Z Turns One! We can't believe that Zachary is about to turn one year old! His first birthday is February 22. Today, we are taking him to his first baseball game at UNC Charlotte! We will get to watch some of the players that we have been ministering to. Thank you for your prayer for our family!

Prayer Requests Planning for the Summer Beach Project is already underway! This year, we have the opportunity of directing the entire project! New Believers- pray that they would be established in their faith. Greek Connect- we are holding an event for Greeks on Feb 22. We are expecting over 100 students to attend. Pray that the Spirit of God would move mightily at this event!

CONATCON Recap

Above is a picture of many of the UNCC students who attended!

CO National Conference Recap

Thank you for those of you who prayed for this conference and tuned it. I believe that so much happens at these conferences because there are so many joining in through prayer. God answered your prayers this past week. At UNCC, we had nine students make professions of faith for the first time or rededicate their lives to Christ. It may very well be that all nine became Christians this week! Praise God!! To get a glimpse of what went on, check out the recap video below. It's only two minutes but gives you a great picture at what went on in Chattanooga, TN this week!

CONATCON Recap Video!

The rallies and seminars will soon be posted to the website, so be sure to check some of them out! Thank you again for your partnership. It's amazing to see all that God has done and humbling to think about all that He has in store!

-Zach & Amy

Watch & Pray

Pray: with us for the conference at www.signupgenius.com/go/100hours!

Watch: the conference here: www.conationalconference.com/live!

The conference starts tomorrow at 8pm as JD Greear will deliver the first message. On Dec 31st, John Piper will speak at 8:30pm. The entire conference schedule is on the website. Thank you for joining with us in laboring at this conference. We are thrilled for the 100+ people coming from UNCC to receive such rich teaching and fellowship!

We hope you all had a Merry Christmas! Here's a picture of Zachary opening some of the presents:

100 Hours of Prayer

As many of you may know, Campus Outreach is holding a 100 Hours of Prayer event over the National Conference in Chattanooga, TN. Our hope is that friends and supporters of our ministry would join us in prayer for this conference. This year, there will be 4500 staff & students coming to the conference. We will be blessed at UNC Charlotte this year to see 109 people join us. Many of the students that will be joining us will be young in their faith and many more will not be Christians at all. These students are in need of our prayers!

We would like to ask you to give 30 minutes of your time (or more if you wish) between the hours of 5 AM and 12 AM during the week of Dec 28 - Jan 1 going before the Lord in prayer for this event. As we approach this conference we are mindful of the strategic importance of prayer as the foundation of our ministry efforts. We are in need of your prayers! If you would like to participate, please visit this website: http://signupgenius.com/go/100hours where you will find a link to a simple form in which you can select one or more 30 minute blocks of time to commit to praying for the ministry of Campus Outreach. Thank you for your friendship and partnership in the Gospel!