Category Archives: Staff’s Reflections

InterVarsity Staff’s thoughts on campus and evangelism at SDSU.

Greek Conference (Indianapolis)

Friday Night Talk

Saturday Night Talk

Kristina and I (Beau) had the privilege of speaking at National Greek Conference a few weeks ago. 650 students from 43 campuses showed up! We saw God move powerfully that weekend as hundreds stood to come home to the Father. Ultimately 50 students at the Indianapolis conference marked on their card that they were going to start following Jesus!

We preached three talks, Friday & Saturday night and then again Sunday morning. Every talk we did together and it was really fun! Friday night, we spoke out of John 2, Jesus turning water into wine, and we challenged students to “Be open to God, and he will reveal himself to you this weekend” You can watch Friday’s talk here. Saturday night, we spoke on Luke 15 and the two sons that are distant from the father. One son is distant because of his badness (the younger son) and the older son is distant because of his goodness (working to be moral). Both are missing the fathers heart and both need to come home into relationship. You can watch Saturday’s talk here. Sunday we stayed in Luke 15 and talked about the servants in the passage and how they understood the heart of the Father and celebration. We talked about how we need to be a community back on campus that can communicate the fathers heart to others and celebrate the things and people he celebrates. Most importantly, lost people coming home!

During the day on Saturday, students were in concentrations led by other staff from around the country. Concentrations were for various types of students. Some were for seekers and skeptics, while others were for Christians who are stuck in bad life style choices. There is even a concentration for leaders who want to stand out in their house for Christ and they learn to lead bible studies and ministry right in the fraternity and sorority.
Kristina did all this while being 36 weeks pregnant and she did an awesome Job. We both are surprised she made it, but God really sustained her through this. We had a ton of fun, and more importantly, God used us mightily that weekend as well as all the staff and volunteers who led at the conference. Thank you so much for the prayers!

Video Slideshow of Fall!

Watch this awesome video of the Fall Recap on campus! Remember with us what God did!

Video of first month of school

Reaching Beyond SDSU…Conversion @ USC, UCLA, UC Davis

The tweet above is from a UCLA student who came to Beau’s workshop on “How to have Spiritual Conversations” at Ignite Conference last week. There is no better tweet to get than this and what a joy to know we are reaching beyond SDSU with the gospel and God is using our teams efforts!

UC DAVIS

(this is fromDavid Nguyen Saveur, InterVarsity staff at UC Davis): Shout out to SDSU! Your large group tonight served a couple of our UC Davis students who were home for the summer. The two girls brought their brothers and the one who was an adamant atheist stood up to receive prayer for God to do something about the sin in his life. Are you kidding me right now?! That’s amazing! Thank you for the work you’re doing 500 miles away! Really makes InterVarsity feel like one big family =)

This is an email we got after our first meeting of the year! God is using our ministry to reach other students at other colleges! So cool!

USC

The video is testimony of a grad student at USC who is from China. He says he has a catholic family but never knew Jesus could be your friend or what a personal relationship with God even meant. God was just a distant being to him. Mitsu, SDSU part time International Staff, led the discussion at USC and also this guy to the Lord. This was the first conversion at USC’s Friday night International Student Ministry.

New Christian Resource…LAUNCH

“2 Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment, 3 now that you have had a taste of the Lord’s kindness.”  – 1 Peter 2:2-3

Launch

Launch is a fully online curriculum for new Christians. It looks at 10 different questions that many new Christians have. InterVarsity has done such a great job connecting people with Jesus, now we are starting to really think on a National level about how to develop people in their first steps as  believer.

What I love about this resource

  1. It is fully online so you don’t need books or paper. just a computer
  2. Every session has a video of a new Christian’s testimony (5 from SDSU) to really relate with other new Christians.
  3. There are comprehensive leader notes for every session.
  4. The Bible Studies are really well put together and well thought out.

CHECK IT OUT!

Http://launch.intervarsity.org