Overdue

A few updates that are long overdue! HIGHLIGHTS: Leadership Training at SFA, Ultimate Frisbee as Missions?, and Guadalajara Bound!

Leadership Training:
We are now 3 weeks into our training of next year's potential small group leaders and I am reminded why this is one of my favorite times of the year! We have 9 folks in the class, 3 guys and 6 girls. Haha - we're whooping 'em! Every week somebody says something that lets us know they are learning. It's so much fun to begin letting these students in on all we've been doing for a semester and to watch them get excited about doing those things themselves is just beyond description. It's the passing of the torch and we are mid pass!

Ultimate Frisbee as Missions?
For some reason at the beginning of the year we started playing Ultimate Frisbee (UF) on the football field with new students we'd meet. It's become more than a tradition - it's really an obsession for some of our students! For a while it just became something fun to do - another activity, another event, blah, blah. But in the last 4 weeks, we have watched a handful of the guys really begin to understand the potential of our UF games for connecting people to Chi Alpha, and most importantly, the Kingdom. They started a Facebook Group to keep new folks updated on when they're playing. They pray before every game. And they make a conscious effort to invite people to small groups, services, and other Chi Alpha events. And it's working!

Guadalajara, Mexico
We are leading a team of 28 students to spend a week helping pioneer Chi Alpha on 14 campuses in one of the largest cities in Mexico this summer! We are honored to lead and overwhelmed at the amazing response we've had from students who want to go with us! Six students from SFA will join students from Sam Houston for 11 days in Guadalajara. We are excited and anxious for the trip. At present, all 28 students are actively raising funds to cover the $1,400 trip cost, so please pray with us for their success and God's always faithful provision!