Prayer List

Prayer App – We are releasing our beta version of our Prayer App/QR Code thing that allows students to scan it and then submit prayer requests. It goes out Feb 1st as a way to allow people to anonymously submit prayer requests on campus.

Fundraising – I have been really swamped and unable to keep up with Ministry Partner development. If you have any leads on people who would want to support Discipleship of college students I’d love the opportunity to talk with them. We still have the goal of handing out Hot Cocoa for free during the all-nighter and during the Saturday people are looking at statues.

The Keweenaw – We are getting our hands into more and more things, specifically trying to host lectures, and speaker, and much. Prayers for the Keweenaw to come to faith in Christ and that we would be fruitful in our endeavors.

Campus Ministry Thoughts

When attempting to create a plan for the future, it can be a bit daunting because no one truly knows what is next. Yet, without a plan for the future, you end up aimlessly wandering. In working with a few of my students, I think we finally settled on a direction.

• In order to catch the up-sweep of “spiritualism” we are going to start hosting lectures or debates on campus to act as a launch point for those who think they know God doesn’t exist and those who do not know if God exists or not.
• Hosting praise and prayer nights in order to encourage and foster community and create opportunities for Christian students who are not currently walking correctly to come.
• Start applying for grants to access money that would allow us to bring to campus more prominent individuals and host larger events focused on challenging the non-Christian mind.
• Develop the distinctive more that we are a ministry that is focused not on mere evangelism, but development of the unbeliever or believer into a mature Christian with the trajectory of them developing Christians themselves.

These 4 things give us a clear definite direction, we are not here to evangelize and then let them fend for themselves, we are hear to make hearty, faithful, jolly warriors of the faith. These men and women are equipped to handle the rampant anti-truth sentiment of our times, while carefully handling those within the church that come to us that think of God as a stone cold and heartless God. We are not here, trying to strongarm people into believing, but here to show that God has not revealed to us the time or the hour, and so we must carry on our lives in diligence to plan out a future of Godliness for generations to come, if they are to come.

The kingdom of God is still advancing, we are seeing the fruits of that around different sectors of Christianity. The false god that many have worshipped that they called Jesus is being disintegrated as people are realizing the falseness of the “social gospel” and more students are trying to find explanations for the world as naturalism and rationalism have begun faltering. It is encouraging to see our students being able to handle the students who come and challenge that bibles authority because they have been trained rightly that Scriptures are the infallible, inerrant word of God.
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It’s funny because it seems as if the house of satan on earth is becoming divided, eating itself up in many ways. the fields are ripe for the harvest, the Word is always prepared to change the Sinners heart and I look forward to the next few years as things continue to blossom and grow, that God will be glorified.
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P.S. I’ve included a picture as the cover of us building the Leviathan for Winter Carnival, hopefully it turns out well.

To God be the Glory

Brandon Charbonneau