Tis the season to be jolly fa la la la la la la la la...
Tis also the season to share the gospel! To be fair, so is every other season but it does seem like at this time of the year people are just so much happier to hear about Jesus. So we really want to make the most of the opportunities that arise.
Therefore, we would really appreciate lots of prayer for the following events that will be taking place over the next three weeks:
Wednesday 7th: Beer & Carols- This is an event run by the chaplaincy but it's also something we're encouraging CU members to take friends to. It will be a really relaxed event where we can just go to the pub and sing some carols with our mates. We really believe in relational evangelism so this is something that can really help us share the gospel with our friends in the future.
Monday 12th: We'll be having our Christmas social but making the most out of the opportunity! The plan is to all go out for a meal but bring a friend along . It'll be a really nice time just to celebrate Christmas together but we will also be having a short gospel talk from Steve Baraniak (our breakaway and 'Uncover Jesus' week speaker) .
Wednesday 14th: This is the DMU carol service which the CU will help host. It'll be a really nice traditional celebration of Christmas but also a great way to share the gospel with our mates!
Thursday 15th: Now this is the long awaited CU barn dance! This is primarily just a social- we do love our barn dances! But as I said, we think relationships in evangelism are so important so sometimes social events like this just really lay the foundation for us to share the gospel with our friends at a later date!
So please do be praying for the success of these events.
Thank you all for your support and prayer- it is all really appreciated!
God bless,
Jennie (President of DMUCU)
Wednesday 30 November 2011
Thursday 10 November 2011
CU Update
Hello everyone!
I trust you are all well.
I just thought I'd give you an update on the work of the CU at the moment. Our first years are still fantastic! The attendance to our main meetings isn't dwindling as it has over the past few years, and so many of them are being real active members of our mission team.
We've heard some great news that CU members are looking to do UNCOVER with their friends or are at least finding more opportunities to share Jesus with them.
For those of you who don't know, UNCOVER is a simple series of six studies of Luke's gospel. It's been given to us by the UCCF this year as an easy method to teach our friends about Jesus. To see more about it you can watch this video http://www.uccf.org.uk/media/uncover/.
In regards to our larger outreach methods, we have two events in two weeks time that we would really appreciate your prayer for!
The first is a lunchbar on the 22nd November where we will be answering the question 'what's so amazing about grace?' The second is an evening event on the 24th November where we will be looking at 'what if my good deeds don't count?' These are linked events, so we are hoping that our guests will come along to both to get a deeper understanding of the Bibles chapter we are looking at; Galatians 3.
At the moment we're unsure about whether we will get the rooms we need, and we wont find out until just before the event where we can go, so we're having a bit of a dilemma as to what to put on our publicity. Please pray that God will use these events and bring people along despite these mishaps. It would really be appreciated!
God bless,
Jennie
(President of DMUCU)
I trust you are all well.
I just thought I'd give you an update on the work of the CU at the moment. Our first years are still fantastic! The attendance to our main meetings isn't dwindling as it has over the past few years, and so many of them are being real active members of our mission team.
We've heard some great news that CU members are looking to do UNCOVER with their friends or are at least finding more opportunities to share Jesus with them.
For those of you who don't know, UNCOVER is a simple series of six studies of Luke's gospel. It's been given to us by the UCCF this year as an easy method to teach our friends about Jesus. To see more about it you can watch this video http://www.uccf.org.uk/media/uncover/.
In regards to our larger outreach methods, we have two events in two weeks time that we would really appreciate your prayer for!
The first is a lunchbar on the 22nd November where we will be answering the question 'what's so amazing about grace?' The second is an evening event on the 24th November where we will be looking at 'what if my good deeds don't count?' These are linked events, so we are hoping that our guests will come along to both to get a deeper understanding of the Bibles chapter we are looking at; Galatians 3.
At the moment we're unsure about whether we will get the rooms we need, and we wont find out until just before the event where we can go, so we're having a bit of a dilemma as to what to put on our publicity. Please pray that God will use these events and bring people along despite these mishaps. It would really be appreciated!
God bless,
Jennie
(President of DMUCU)
Tuesday 1 November 2011
Tea and Toast!
Hi There!
Last Saturday (30/10/11) the CU put on an evangelism event that engaged many of the students at DMU. This event was an opportunity to meet more students, chat to them about their lives and Jesus though giving them a cup of coffee and a chocolate spread sandwich as they leave the Students Union. This type of event enables us as the CU to chat to people we may have never spoken to. Many of these young people have consumed a large amount of alcohol in a night, but the affect is usually that they want to chat about things that otherwise they may have run away from. It may be absolutely exhausting (hanging around outside the Union Bar until 4am!) but, I’m sure lots of people who have doe Tea and Toast will say the same, it is so rewarding! God blesses us with fantastic conversations and the opportunities to meet new friends.
Please pray for the Christian Unions at both Universities, that they will have a servant heart to the Lord, being encouraged and challenged by His desires whilst at Uni. CU is a great opportunity for Christians (and non-Christians!) to get to know more about Jesus and why we need Him, so please pray that we will be able to continue the work.
If you have any questions about our work or CU in general, feel free to email me on evang@dmucu.org.
In Christ,
Emma
Saturday 1 October 2011
Final Fresher's Week Catch Up
Hi Everyone,
Well after an exhausting but exciting week, I'm pleased to say Fresher's week is over! Thank you everyone for all of your prayer and support throughout the week, it's been really appreciated.
It's such a privilege to serve God by being on the committee because you can see just so clearly how he works through us and provides for us. Though I must say I imagine it would be nice to just enjoy the events without having the concern of how they will turn out- when you have such a concern and God completely eradicates any need for such concern, it's a truly great feeling.
So, going back to Thursday evening. This was our first main CU meeting of the year. Through this we hoped to give the Fresher's an idea of what the CU mission team is about and how we run on a weekly basis. It was great to see how many people there were who were simply interested in either working for Jesus on campus or wanting to find out more about him, rather than being attracted to an event where they are given free food.
The worship that night was so powerful, you would have thought we had been singing together as a group for years. Also, the talk from our speaker, Paul, was fantastic and really got across the message of why we aim to reach out to our campus.
Moving onto yesterday, we had our 'Quiz night' again this was a really fun event and there were a few faces that I hadn't seen throughout the rest of the week which was fantastic. It's always great to see people who just may be having seeds planted in them, now we would just really appreciate your prayers for those seeds to have landed on good soil.
Our speaker, Steve, gave a talk that reached out to all kinds of people in the room. And if I didn't know Christ already I must say, he would have encouraged me to read the Bible and check him out.
This week was manic, but God has provided when we couldn't and he has fixed things that we didn't God has been so good. Fresher's week may be over but our mission isn't stopping so please do keep supporting us and praying for us.
God bless you all
Jennie
(President of DMUCU)
Well after an exhausting but exciting week, I'm pleased to say Fresher's week is over! Thank you everyone for all of your prayer and support throughout the week, it's been really appreciated.
It's such a privilege to serve God by being on the committee because you can see just so clearly how he works through us and provides for us. Though I must say I imagine it would be nice to just enjoy the events without having the concern of how they will turn out- when you have such a concern and God completely eradicates any need for such concern, it's a truly great feeling.
So, going back to Thursday evening. This was our first main CU meeting of the year. Through this we hoped to give the Fresher's an idea of what the CU mission team is about and how we run on a weekly basis. It was great to see how many people there were who were simply interested in either working for Jesus on campus or wanting to find out more about him, rather than being attracted to an event where they are given free food.
The worship that night was so powerful, you would have thought we had been singing together as a group for years. Also, the talk from our speaker, Paul, was fantastic and really got across the message of why we aim to reach out to our campus.
Moving onto yesterday, we had our 'Quiz night' again this was a really fun event and there were a few faces that I hadn't seen throughout the rest of the week which was fantastic. It's always great to see people who just may be having seeds planted in them, now we would just really appreciate your prayers for those seeds to have landed on good soil.
Our speaker, Steve, gave a talk that reached out to all kinds of people in the room. And if I didn't know Christ already I must say, he would have encouraged me to read the Bible and check him out.
This week was manic, but God has provided when we couldn't and he has fixed things that we didn't God has been so good. Fresher's week may be over but our mission isn't stopping so please do keep supporting us and praying for us.
God bless you all
Jennie
(President of DMUCU)
Thursday 29 September 2011
Wednesday Catch-up
Hello everyone!
Last night was incredible, I was very much reminded of the feeding of the 5,000... though we sadly didn't have 5,000 people along to hear the gospel- we had around 80 attend our 'Fish and Chips' event. Still we are so pleased with this turn out as there were lots of unfamiliar faces of international students and I suspect some other British students who have never thought about Christ before.
Our speaker, Paula, gave a great demonstration of Jesus' sacrifice for us as well as telling everyone what it means to be a Christian.
Though we were so exhausted God really provided for us, there was plenty of food and I think it was really important that those of us in charge really had the message hit home how beautiful and trust-worthy God is. He will never let us down!
Tonight, we're having our first main meeting of the year with worship, teaching and prayer. This will be a great opportunity to show the Fresher's what DMUCU is like normally. Please pray that tonight that they all grasp the fact that we are a mission team and it would also be great if you could pray for them to get involved whole heartedly in serving God on campus!
God bless,
Jennie
(President of DMUCU)
Last night was incredible, I was very much reminded of the feeding of the 5,000... though we sadly didn't have 5,000 people along to hear the gospel- we had around 80 attend our 'Fish and Chips' event. Still we are so pleased with this turn out as there were lots of unfamiliar faces of international students and I suspect some other British students who have never thought about Christ before.
Our speaker, Paula, gave a great demonstration of Jesus' sacrifice for us as well as telling everyone what it means to be a Christian.
Though we were so exhausted God really provided for us, there was plenty of food and I think it was really important that those of us in charge really had the message hit home how beautiful and trust-worthy God is. He will never let us down!
Tonight, we're having our first main meeting of the year with worship, teaching and prayer. This will be a great opportunity to show the Fresher's what DMUCU is like normally. Please pray that tonight that they all grasp the fact that we are a mission team and it would also be great if you could pray for them to get involved whole heartedly in serving God on campus!
God bless,
Jennie
(President of DMUCU)
Wednesday 28 September 2011
Tuesday Catch-Up
Good afternoon everyone!
Well I knew people liked cake but WOW!
Our God is such a prayer answering God it's incredible. Yesterday we prayed for our Pudding party in the evening as well as for the success of our international cafe that is being set up. Well talk about killing two birds with one stone.
Not only did we have an amazing turn out to our event- of lots of new faces (some Christians and I think some who were not) but we also had a fantastic turn out of international students. So, we were completely able to advertise the cafe to them.
The talk from our staff worker, Matthew, seemed also to be a hit. His honesty and casual approach seemed to spark some interest (or at least facial expressions that showed interest) from our guests. We would really appreciate it if you would pray that even if the immediate reaction from people wasn't a positive one, that it would be a seed planted in their hearts at least.
Now, tonight we are hosting our event 'Fish and Chips', I feel it's self explanatory but just in case- we are getting fish and chips for all of our guests to eat while listening to our gospel based talk. Lots of people have shown an interest in this event which is amazing because the more people to hear the gospel the better. However, I must admit that there are some concerns about how much such an event will cost. Please really pray that God would provide us with the finances so we wont struggle with them after this event. We are really praying for a miracle here.
Still if anyone would like to donate some much needed money to our mission. Please do let me know, email me at president@dmucu.org.
God bless you all,
Jennie
(President of DMUCU)
Well I knew people liked cake but WOW!
Our God is such a prayer answering God it's incredible. Yesterday we prayed for our Pudding party in the evening as well as for the success of our international cafe that is being set up. Well talk about killing two birds with one stone.
Not only did we have an amazing turn out to our event- of lots of new faces (some Christians and I think some who were not) but we also had a fantastic turn out of international students. So, we were completely able to advertise the cafe to them.
The talk from our staff worker, Matthew, seemed also to be a hit. His honesty and casual approach seemed to spark some interest (or at least facial expressions that showed interest) from our guests. We would really appreciate it if you would pray that even if the immediate reaction from people wasn't a positive one, that it would be a seed planted in their hearts at least.
Now, tonight we are hosting our event 'Fish and Chips', I feel it's self explanatory but just in case- we are getting fish and chips for all of our guests to eat while listening to our gospel based talk. Lots of people have shown an interest in this event which is amazing because the more people to hear the gospel the better. However, I must admit that there are some concerns about how much such an event will cost. Please really pray that God would provide us with the finances so we wont struggle with them after this event. We are really praying for a miracle here.
Still if anyone would like to donate some much needed money to our mission. Please do let me know, email me at president@dmucu.org.
God bless you all,
Jennie
(President of DMUCU)
Tuesday 27 September 2011
Monday Catch-Up
So yesterday we started with a bang... well more of a strum/shout/... I don't know how to describe the sound of someone playing a keyboard...maybe that is a bang!
We kicked off our Fresher's week with our Music Night last night, filling the room with fairy lights and lamps, scattering gospels around and putting a variety of snacks on each table seemed to create a nice cosy atmosphere for the Freshers. And praise God, there were Freshers!
After the event we headed to the Western pub- as is practically a tradition with DMUCU- to socialize a bit more and some of the Fresher's even decided to join us there which was fantastic.
We really want to praise God for his provision. For a while we weren't entirely sure how many performers we'd have or whether there would be enough to fill up the evening, but two of the guys from the DMU music society turned up and played for us!
On a more personal note, I was completely blown away by God yesterday. I have always been a real stress head and control freak- though since God came into my life about 3 years ago I've been seeing a change in that. However, I've never had such a big a test for my stress levels as this. And I must say they are practically non-existent! Not everything has gone to plan but not once has God let us down and not once has he let me feel panicked or worried. I found myself telling people I was stressed when they asked how I was just out of habit and had to change my mind saying 'actually no I'm not, I thought I would be but I'm really not'. So I personally really want to thank God there for being such a great Father :)
So moving on with today, we have more flyering to do to advertise our events so if you're reading this please pray that we get a good response from people, and that when we don't we wont be disheartened or feel personally rejected.
Then later on tonight at 7pm we have our pudding party! I'm really excited about this one as it's always very popular and it was the first CU event I ever went to. Lets face it people love cake! If anyone is still available to donate us with puddings/sweets that would still be amazing. You could get in contact with someone you know from the CU to get them or drop them off in the DMU chaplaincy on the second floor of the campus centre. When flyering I had a request from a third year non-Christian that I work with for another pudding party- lets pray she comes and has an opportunity to hear the gospel!
God bless you all,
Jennie
(President of DMUCU)
We kicked off our Fresher's week with our Music Night last night, filling the room with fairy lights and lamps, scattering gospels around and putting a variety of snacks on each table seemed to create a nice cosy atmosphere for the Freshers. And praise God, there were Freshers!
After the event we headed to the Western pub- as is practically a tradition with DMUCU- to socialize a bit more and some of the Fresher's even decided to join us there which was fantastic.
We really want to praise God for his provision. For a while we weren't entirely sure how many performers we'd have or whether there would be enough to fill up the evening, but two of the guys from the DMU music society turned up and played for us!
On a more personal note, I was completely blown away by God yesterday. I have always been a real stress head and control freak- though since God came into my life about 3 years ago I've been seeing a change in that. However, I've never had such a big a test for my stress levels as this. And I must say they are practically non-existent! Not everything has gone to plan but not once has God let us down and not once has he let me feel panicked or worried. I found myself telling people I was stressed when they asked how I was just out of habit and had to change my mind saying 'actually no I'm not, I thought I would be but I'm really not'. So I personally really want to thank God there for being such a great Father :)
So moving on with today, we have more flyering to do to advertise our events so if you're reading this please pray that we get a good response from people, and that when we don't we wont be disheartened or feel personally rejected.
Then later on tonight at 7pm we have our pudding party! I'm really excited about this one as it's always very popular and it was the first CU event I ever went to. Lets face it people love cake! If anyone is still available to donate us with puddings/sweets that would still be amazing. You could get in contact with someone you know from the CU to get them or drop them off in the DMU chaplaincy on the second floor of the campus centre. When flyering I had a request from a third year non-Christian that I work with for another pudding party- lets pray she comes and has an opportunity to hear the gospel!
God bless you all,
Jennie
(President of DMUCU)
Monday 26 September 2011
Fresher's Week Kicks Off
Hi All!
So our Fresher's Week events are about to kick off tonight and we are very excited!
In situations like this where we have no idea who to expect we can really learn to lean on God and trust him all the more. We want to dedicated not only our events this week but everything we do at DMUCU to God. So we really would appreciate your prayer.
Over the weekend and also this morning we were handing out flyers at two of the halls of residence and also at the students union and so far we've had some really positive reactions towards our events. We pray this will mean a high turn out at all our events this week and that many people will have the opportunity to hear the gospel of Christ for the first time.
Our first event tonight is a Music Night with a gospel based talk. We hope that God will use this not only to provide us with more students to join our mission team but also to lead people to his kingdom!
We're also still looking for funding and sponsorship for the CU and our mission to make Christ known on campus this year. We're really rather desperate for money at the moment so if anyone can donate anything at all, please email me at president@dmucu.org.
God bless you all,
Jennie
(President of DMUCU)
So our Fresher's Week events are about to kick off tonight and we are very excited!
In situations like this where we have no idea who to expect we can really learn to lean on God and trust him all the more. We want to dedicated not only our events this week but everything we do at DMUCU to God. So we really would appreciate your prayer.
Over the weekend and also this morning we were handing out flyers at two of the halls of residence and also at the students union and so far we've had some really positive reactions towards our events. We pray this will mean a high turn out at all our events this week and that many people will have the opportunity to hear the gospel of Christ for the first time.
Our first event tonight is a Music Night with a gospel based talk. We hope that God will use this not only to provide us with more students to join our mission team but also to lead people to his kingdom!
We're also still looking for funding and sponsorship for the CU and our mission to make Christ known on campus this year. We're really rather desperate for money at the moment so if anyone can donate anything at all, please email me at president@dmucu.org.
God bless you all,
Jennie
(President of DMUCU)
Saturday 10 September 2011
Forum 2011!
Hi Everyone,
Well Forum was amazing!
So much happened that it's going to be hard to keep it all nice and concise in a blog post but I shall give it a go...
God is incredible! Nine of our leaders ended up going on the training week and from who I've spoke to about it so far, God has really acted in our lives.
I have a small testimony to share about it myself if I may. For the last few weeks I had been feeling really low and every area of my Christian life seemed to be failing me a little bit. I was never really in the mood to pray and when I did it was more out of guilt than a desire to speak to our Heavenly Father. I was also struggling to read my Bible and again when I did it was more because I felt that I had to because my Fiancé was reading his so much (what a good Fiancé!)
But I just felt so lost and knew that I shouldn't and I didn't really know why I felt that way so I guess I was just slowing giving up on actually living for God wholly. We got to Forum at about 6pm on Monday and had an evening meeting and I just really wasn't feeling it, I was singing rather than worshipping and saw the talk as a good opportunity just to practice my shorthand and the same seemed to happen in the morning meeting the next day.
But throughout the next day when we were going to our seminars and workshops I started to realise how little time I was spending with God and that was most likely the reason for me feeling so low. But it was a bit of a catch 22, I didn't feel I could be with God because I was low but I was low because I wasn't spending time with God.
Then I finally realised that I was still with God, or at least he was with me. A talk I was in really bought to light that God wasn't pulling away from me and any distance that was there was created by my own feelings for one reason or another. Still I felt like 'well I have this knowledge now but what do I do with it?' So I prayed this really short pathetic prayer saying to God 'I don't feel like I can do this by myself, I know this is my fault but please just pull me closer.' He COMPLETELY did!
Towards the end of the Tuesday evening meeting I was singing worship and realized that I was again actually singing worship! Then I realized my eyes were filling with tears and I found my heart just begging to God, and his spirit filled flowed through me.
Over the next day I made a real focus to spend time with God one on one and to really listen to what he put in my heart and I ended up texting my non-Christian best friend and my non-Christian parents about God, something that I find really hard to do normally but he gave me such a great confidence in him. Amazing! I just saw so many examples of his incredible love that next day that I was so overwhelmed I broke down crying in that evening meeting. From both the feeling of being overwhelmed from his love as well as a feeling of complete stupidity for every being scared and pushing him away.
I'm so happy I went to Forum for that if not anything else. But there are so many other reasons I'm greatful I went.
As leaders we were really tested to be unified and spend time together in a way that would set a good example for the rest of the CU. God put this problem on some of the leaders hearts and it really broke the heart of one of the girls and she brought the problem up to us. Then our Father really pulled us back together again and it seems we are a stronger (and hopefully a more effective) team than ever! God has been so good!
There is so much more I could say about Forum, but the most important thing you should know if how good God is. And we are so greatful to the UCCF for giving us the opportunity to have that week of focusing on God and our mission.
We really think that this has pumped us up to give the students at DMU the opportunity to hear and respond to the gospel of Christ, but not in a way that has wound us up just to keep going until the end of Freshers week, but in a way that will encourage us to live our entire lives for the benefit of Jesus Christ.
Our God has done everything for us by giving us his son, and this week has reminded us that we owe him everything!
You can hold us accountable to that one :p
God bless you all,
Jennie
(CU President)
Well Forum was amazing!
So much happened that it's going to be hard to keep it all nice and concise in a blog post but I shall give it a go...
God is incredible! Nine of our leaders ended up going on the training week and from who I've spoke to about it so far, God has really acted in our lives.
I have a small testimony to share about it myself if I may. For the last few weeks I had been feeling really low and every area of my Christian life seemed to be failing me a little bit. I was never really in the mood to pray and when I did it was more out of guilt than a desire to speak to our Heavenly Father. I was also struggling to read my Bible and again when I did it was more because I felt that I had to because my Fiancé was reading his so much (what a good Fiancé!)
But I just felt so lost and knew that I shouldn't and I didn't really know why I felt that way so I guess I was just slowing giving up on actually living for God wholly. We got to Forum at about 6pm on Monday and had an evening meeting and I just really wasn't feeling it, I was singing rather than worshipping and saw the talk as a good opportunity just to practice my shorthand and the same seemed to happen in the morning meeting the next day.
But throughout the next day when we were going to our seminars and workshops I started to realise how little time I was spending with God and that was most likely the reason for me feeling so low. But it was a bit of a catch 22, I didn't feel I could be with God because I was low but I was low because I wasn't spending time with God.
Then I finally realised that I was still with God, or at least he was with me. A talk I was in really bought to light that God wasn't pulling away from me and any distance that was there was created by my own feelings for one reason or another. Still I felt like 'well I have this knowledge now but what do I do with it?' So I prayed this really short pathetic prayer saying to God 'I don't feel like I can do this by myself, I know this is my fault but please just pull me closer.' He COMPLETELY did!
Towards the end of the Tuesday evening meeting I was singing worship and realized that I was again actually singing worship! Then I realized my eyes were filling with tears and I found my heart just begging to God, and his spirit filled flowed through me.
Over the next day I made a real focus to spend time with God one on one and to really listen to what he put in my heart and I ended up texting my non-Christian best friend and my non-Christian parents about God, something that I find really hard to do normally but he gave me such a great confidence in him. Amazing! I just saw so many examples of his incredible love that next day that I was so overwhelmed I broke down crying in that evening meeting. From both the feeling of being overwhelmed from his love as well as a feeling of complete stupidity for every being scared and pushing him away.
I'm so happy I went to Forum for that if not anything else. But there are so many other reasons I'm greatful I went.
As leaders we were really tested to be unified and spend time together in a way that would set a good example for the rest of the CU. God put this problem on some of the leaders hearts and it really broke the heart of one of the girls and she brought the problem up to us. Then our Father really pulled us back together again and it seems we are a stronger (and hopefully a more effective) team than ever! God has been so good!
There is so much more I could say about Forum, but the most important thing you should know if how good God is. And we are so greatful to the UCCF for giving us the opportunity to have that week of focusing on God and our mission.
We really think that this has pumped us up to give the students at DMU the opportunity to hear and respond to the gospel of Christ, but not in a way that has wound us up just to keep going until the end of Freshers week, but in a way that will encourage us to live our entire lives for the benefit of Jesus Christ.
Our God has done everything for us by giving us his son, and this week has reminded us that we owe him everything!
You can hold us accountable to that one :p
God bless you all,
Jennie
(CU President)
Tuesday 30 August 2011
Prayer for Leaders :)
Hi Everyone!
I hope this blog finds you all well!
Well, DMUCU has had a very relaxed summer so far with not too much to pray for but in the next few weeks it seems we are going to be some very busy bees!
This year we will be getting a new relay worker- the lovely Joe Eardley! He was the last president of our CU and during the last year he decided he still wanted to work for God on our campus, as well as the campus of Leicester University. Today he headed off to Quinta Halls to start his training and it would be great if you could keep him in your prayers for the next few weeks!
Also, as of Monday, the rest of the CU leadership- the Exec and the small group leaders- will be joining Joe for another week of training up at Quinta along with all the other CU leaders from across the country! It's going to be an amazing time, learning how to share God on campus is always a very enjoyable experience. However, I know that some of us are a bit anxious about going as we don't know what to expect from the week so it would be great if you could keep all the leaders in your prayers too!
It wont be long until we all start making our way back to Leicester so the blog posts should become more often from here on.
Our plans for the next academic year are slowly coming together but I wont lie- it's been a stressful few weeks trying to sort it out! Please keep supporting us as you are and pray that our mission this year is a successful one! Also please pray for the leaders that we will ensure we are always relying on God rather than ourselves... I know I can often get carried away with loving my lists too much!
I hope you all enjoy the last few days of the summer and we all look forward to seeing our lovely churches again very soon!
God bless you all :)
Jennie
(DMUCU President)
I hope this blog finds you all well!
Well, DMUCU has had a very relaxed summer so far with not too much to pray for but in the next few weeks it seems we are going to be some very busy bees!
This year we will be getting a new relay worker- the lovely Joe Eardley! He was the last president of our CU and during the last year he decided he still wanted to work for God on our campus, as well as the campus of Leicester University. Today he headed off to Quinta Halls to start his training and it would be great if you could keep him in your prayers for the next few weeks!
Also, as of Monday, the rest of the CU leadership- the Exec and the small group leaders- will be joining Joe for another week of training up at Quinta along with all the other CU leaders from across the country! It's going to be an amazing time, learning how to share God on campus is always a very enjoyable experience. However, I know that some of us are a bit anxious about going as we don't know what to expect from the week so it would be great if you could keep all the leaders in your prayers too!
It wont be long until we all start making our way back to Leicester so the blog posts should become more often from here on.
Our plans for the next academic year are slowly coming together but I wont lie- it's been a stressful few weeks trying to sort it out! Please keep supporting us as you are and pray that our mission this year is a successful one! Also please pray for the leaders that we will ensure we are always relying on God rather than ourselves... I know I can often get carried away with loving my lists too much!
I hope you all enjoy the last few days of the summer and we all look forward to seeing our lovely churches again very soon!
God bless you all :)
Jennie
(DMUCU President)
Saturday 25 June 2011
Welcome!
Hi Everyone!
When there are so many ways to communicate quickly and effectively, why are we not taking advantage of them?
Well, now we are!
This blog will be updated regularly to let you all know what DMUCU have done recently, what we are going to do soon and how you can be praying for us!
Right now we're on a break for the holidays but do not fear- our hearts are still working for God!
Please be praying for our current members as they witness to family and friends at home, for our leavers as they are searching and starting new jobs and for new members who will be joining in September (hopefully!)
We know God has a plan for us all, for for Christians at college, this can still be a very nerve provoking time, so please pray God will take this burden from them and give them peace at heart!
God bless,
Jennie
(DMUCU President)
When there are so many ways to communicate quickly and effectively, why are we not taking advantage of them?
Well, now we are!
This blog will be updated regularly to let you all know what DMUCU have done recently, what we are going to do soon and how you can be praying for us!
Right now we're on a break for the holidays but do not fear- our hearts are still working for God!
Please be praying for our current members as they witness to family and friends at home, for our leavers as they are searching and starting new jobs and for new members who will be joining in September (hopefully!)
We know God has a plan for us all, for for Christians at college, this can still be a very nerve provoking time, so please pray God will take this burden from them and give them peace at heart!
God bless,
Jennie
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