Watch this awesome video of the Fall Recap on campus! Remember with us what God did!
Main Session Friday Night
After a stormy drive from San Diego to Long Beach and very bumpy boat ride out to the Island, the Staff and 207 college students from San Diego arrived on Catalina and kicked off our 2011 Soul Food Fall Conference. From the moment the conference started it was clear that the students were hungry, some of them may not have know what they were hungering for, but their openness, and desire to learn and experience God revealed their Hunger.
At Soul Food, 9 San Diego Campuses come together for a weekend of discovering and exploring our Soul’s hunger for God. The most unique thing about Soul Food that separates it from any other Christian retreat I have ever seen is that Soul Food is designed and created for non-Christians. From the intro games to speakers to the Seminars, every aspect of the weekend is meant to help those who do not know God discover Jesus and walk closely with him. And for the Christians, what is a better learning experience then walking with their non-Christian friends as they start a relationship with Jesus!
Traditionally Saturday night of Soul Food is where the main Speakers (this year Beau and Kristina Crosetto) make a clear presentation of the Gospel and make an invitation to accept Jesus for the first time. We often see many students stand for this invitation, but what was unique this year is that many students were so ready to start a relationship with Jesus that they literally were coming up to staff and leaders starting Friday night asking if they could start a relationship with Jesus now! On the Island 5 students had accepted Jesus before our speakers had ever made an invitation!
By the end of the weekend, we had witnessed the greatest harvest we have ever seen at Soul Food, with 16 students making first time decisions to follow Jesus and 41 re-commitments! THAT IS 57 DECISIONS FOR JESUS!
This just goes to show, that Students were just hungry for their souls to be fed, and that is why we bring them to Soul Food!
- Gent Grush is a full time staff at SDSU
Posted in Retreats
Last week I got to lead on John 5, Jesus heals the lame man at the pool, at our weekly bible study this week held in ZBT. Although we have seen over 27 students come to faith (some of which made re commitments in their walk with the Lord) in one month back to school, not many of these have been Greek. In fact we launched Greek IV a couple of weeks ago after rush ended, so we are slowly gaining momentum.
We have only 3 first-timers attend last week but all 3 responded to God’s word!
I challenged them at the end to think about an area of their life they want to be ‘unstuck’ or ‘made well’ in and to write down if they believed Jesus could do this for them. After the study the 2 guys who were there both said they’d like to meet a guy leader or staff for coffee because they had a lot of questions about Jesus. (I heard them in their small groups asking: How do I know I have Jesus in my life right now?!) and a sorority girl that came made a re commitment in her relationship with God. We are excited to have students follow up with her and get her connected to a house study 2 of our leaders are starting next week. I wanted to share this story with you to show you how God is moving in the Greek system on SDSU’s campus!
-Casey Groff, on-campus Greek staff
We have a problem in college ministry at SDSU— 28,000 students are commuters! That means they don’t ‘hang out’ around campus much, don’t participate much in extracurricular activities, don’t attend small groups, or Fuel, and don’t have much time for anything other than classes! So how do we get them connected to God, to community, or give them a place to ask questions about faith? We have a proposal: THE TENT.
Some of our leaders at our on campus tent!
Please pray for us! This task of reaching commuters is a daunting one, but God is making headway! Please also come and visit the tent! It is in front of Hepner Hall every Tuesday from 10am-4pm!
