“For I cannot help but speak of what I have seen and heard…”

Acts 4:20
“You will know the truth, and the truth will set you
free.” John 8:32

Pray! Pray! Pray!

~ Pray that our students would be
excited about leading their ministry and
they would be passionate about these
Setting the Captives Free next 4 weeks of the semester as well as
excited about planning for next term.
Thank you for beginning this past month praying for and with us as
we planned our student retreat. The theme for the retreat was ~ Pray that our first meeting at the
PMB campus is wonderful and that
Galatians 5:1, " For freedom Christ has set us free, therefore many students come.
stand firm and do not return to a yoke of slavery." As we began
planning our retreat I was focused on simply gathering students ~Pray for student leaders to continue to
together and connecting them to one another. To me this was a be raised up at all 4 campuses,
especially PMB and Edgewood.
time to build community and allow our new students to see that
they were a part of something bigger. As we continued to plan our ~Pray that at Westville and Howard
camp and I continued to pray for more students to attend, God students would start discipling other
students.
began to change my heart.
I began to have a feeling that this camp was about much more ~Pray we are able to work out the many
than I originally thought. It was no longer about community, details for everything we are planning
although that would be a bonus, but it had become about freedom, this year, especially a possible
international mission trip.
true revival in the hearts of our students and us. I began to see
that if we were on campus sharing the Gospel because it was our ~Pray our team would love one another
job, a command, out of guilt, obligation, or because I told the well and be united.
students to do it nothing would happen this year. People do not ~Pray God would give me wisdom on
want to believe a story we tell or something we awkwardly speak all He is teaching me, and the discipline
about as if we are unsure if we even believe it. The only thing that to spend time learning more and
will affect a person is something revolutionary, something with carrying it all out!

Upcoming Events!
1st weekly meeting Prayer Meeting Easter!
April 15 April 15 April 24
First meeting at Spending a night in HOPPY EASTER!
Pietermaritzburg! I prayer with our We may even have
am so excited to students asking a Passover meal
see our 4th campus God to guide and this year!
officially kick off! bless our year.
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“DO YOU WANT TO BE WELL?”

power, something shocking, something that changed our lives..
That is what the Gospel is and that is what we must share!
This is what camp would be about. It would be a time for us all to
get away and experience the reality of the freedom Christ offers us
from our desires to try to make our lives better and complete by
our own efforts, from our ideas that we know what is best for us,
from the habits we learn as the are passed from generation to
generation, and for many of our students it would be about
freedom from ancestrialism (the act of sacrificing to, praying to, or
worshipping our ancestors). As we entered our last week before
camp I was pumped for what I believed God wanted to do and I
spent everyday inviting everyone I could find to camp!
As the invites went out our team also pulled together to figure out
all of the details that needed to go into the camp. How four women
were able to book and plan a camp in a week and a half still blows
my mind. We decided to have a student's father come to give 2 of
our talks. He would speak on Saturday and I would give the talk Friday night and Sunday morning.
My first talk was on the promise of freedom. Isaiah 61 says that God came to set the captives free. He
promises that we are free by the truth of His word and that where the Holy Spirit is there is freedom.
The first night I explained this promise and the benefits of it. I closed with a story from John 5 about a
crippled man who needs to jump in a pool to be healed. Jesus comes to him and asks him if he wants
to be well. The man makes excuses about how he needs help into the pool instead of answering. This
is what we do so often in our lives, so my final question to the students was "Do
you want to be well?", as I challenged them to "jump in the pool".
Saturday we heard from Pastor Namba, who gave an awesome talk on the
Gospel and how Jesus came to set us free. He explained the cross and the way
Jesus came to live a perfect life only to be oppressed and imprisoned so we
could be free from all of our guilt and shame. He spoke about the debt that we
owed and that separated us from God and that Jesus paid this debt. He spoke
about how Jesus became sin so we could become the
righteousness of God, not by anything we do, but only by the grace
coming from Jesus' death and resurrection.
Saturday night he continued on the subject by speaking of how we
worship God and how we worship things that only look like god
but are far from it. He spoke about Deuteronomy 30, where God
says I have set before you a choice of life or death, blessings or
curses. He focused on the subject of generational curses and the
things that are set before us because of our families. This was
fairly new to me, but is what our students deal with everyday as
there parents worship false Gods, and expect them to join in. Many of our
students must actually make the decision of following Jesus against their parentsʼ wishes, and could
possibly endure hard repercussions because of it. It seemed to be exactly what the students needed
to hear. As the night came to a close we spent extended time praying and worshipping the Lord. I had
never experienced anything like that night, as I felt closer to God than ever before. There were things
that happened that I cannot explain, and almost every student left claiming the promise of freedom
that God offers us. They decided to stand in a gap and break the generational curses before them
and follow the Lord instead of becoming wrapped up again in the things that keep them tied down.
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It was a night I will never forget, and such a
blessing from the Lord as he did what he
promised. He gave us all an experience that was
so great we had to talk about it!
Sunday morning I had the privilege to wrap up
the weekend. We ended by talking about how
that experience should drive us into an
expression. The bible says that our testimonies,
our stories of our past, have incredible power in
them as long as we share them. We talked about
forgetting the shame we are told to feel about
things we were caught up in, but to share the
story of God bringing us out of it with pride. So
as we all left, we drove away with a challenge to
embody what we were made into, the
righteousness of God, and to share our stories
because we cannot help but speak of what we
have seen and heard! God did not intend for our
salvation to be the end of our journey but the
beginning. That is what this camp was as well,
the beginning of a year of blessings. As we
returned to campus our students continued to
share their testimonies and we saw more
students experience this same healing. We even
heard a testimony from one of my students,
Zama, who was told she had a growth in her
stomach. We prayed for her each day that week
and on Friday she shared that the scan showed
it had disappeared. God is at work here and it is
only the beginning!!!
Later in the month we were able to take a trip
down south for a prayer retreat with all of the
campus staff. It was a refreshing time where I
learned more about not coming into God's
presence lightly. I was able to find where I needed
to balance fearing and loving God. We also were
able to road trip back up the coast and through
Port Elizabeth where the other STINT team is
located. We spent a day with them and had a
chance to go on their campus to see how God
was at work there.
We returned to a pretty chaotic situation however.
Our campuses had gone on strike. There is a
newspaper article on my blog that explains more
of it, but it was crazy. This gave us more time to
hang out with our students outside of campus,
and gave me more time and more students to
help me at our new campus, Pietermaritzburg. I
have been there only twice, but it seems there are
already 10-15 students really interested in Cru.
Many of them even have the desire to share the
Gospel on their campus already. It is easy
sometimes to look at our ministry and get bogged
down and discouraged in the specifics, but it is so
great to take a look at it all with a different
perspective. God is at work here in incredible
ways! We are 4 girls on 4 campuses with 4
movements, only having really been on campus a
month and half. I cannot wait to see what God
continues to do here! Thank you for sending me
back here, and for being my fellow worker in the
truth!

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