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!

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.