Lakehouse: InterVarsity

Ginger's students have been helping her out a lot on campus this year. We started the fall quarter with a spiritual survey table. Lucy called over her many friends and encouraged them to share. What's your spiritual background? What do you think are the biggest problems facing our world today? What role can faith have in addressing world problems?

 Grace continued to reach out to International Students, and is passing on that ministry to Joyce, another student from Hong Kong.

 We continue to have weekend dinner nights. Newlyweds Nick and Shalom have been helping with the cooking.

Our first meeting of the year was a prayer-training session for basic prayer ministry, talking about Heal - Bless - Send practice of prayer for others.

Heal: Pray for healing by lifting up the problem to God. Express trust in God’s ability, and love to care for this person and all their needs. Sometimes there is quick healing and sometimes not. But you have prayed a good healing prayer if the person leaves feeling loved and cared for.

Bless: After handing the problem to God, ask for God’s blessing on this person’s life. Maybe there is a natural follow-up to the prayer request. If you prayed for healing of fear, ask for a blessing of bravery. Heal hurt, bless wholeness. Heal anger, bless with grace and patience. Ask a blessing over the unspoken prayers that this person wasn’t ready to share with a stranger. Express trust that God knows everything that is hidden, and knows how to care for it. 

Send: Every person has a purpose and a calling! We don’t just come to God because we want things. This person has value, something to give and share to others. Pray that they will see the campus and home with God’s eyes today, that they will care for others, that they will excel in their school and work, that they will show love in all things. 

We offered to pray for students on campus, or at least for them to share prayer requests on notecards. Sierra (above) prayed over the requests.

Our second dinner night was about sharing testimonies. The students drew maps of their spiritual journeys, showing times they were closer or further away from Jesus, and what helped them.

The group always has silly fun after prayer time.

Seventeen Pierce College students came to our Fall Retreat.

Even Mercy, a Pierce alum, came along to sing with the praise team. 

The students were challenged over the weekend to participate in Jesus' Kingdom Revolution by becoming a part of Jesus' mission on campus.

Several Pierce students stood up to pursue leadership and sharing their faith on campus.

fav part of this photo- hands reaching from the row in front

The Team, from the left side: Isabel, Kimmy, Josie, Raziya, Shalom, Sequoia, Veronica, Sierra, Joyce, Don, Rebekah, Harold, Lucy, Ginger, Annette, Lorie, Debra, and Mercy.

We're excited to see the chapter grow as students step up in leadership!