Hello!
As I was thinking about how I wanted to do regular updates, I faced a dilemma. I don’t want to clutter people’s inboxes with email (and let’s be real, who actually reads all their emails anyways) and regular mail is mostly reserved for special occasions these days. I thought back on last summer and the success of using a blog to update people while I was in Nepal. I like blogs as a reader because you can read as often as you would like and it allows me as the author to include fun things like pictures and videos should the desire emerge. If you would like to subscribe to receive update emails for new posts follow the instructions at the bottom of the page or ‘follow’ my blog. I hope that you enjoy the stories I will share through this blog and I intend to set it up in such a way that I would be able to continue posting even after this year.
First, I want to thank each of you that have joined my team as I minister to student. I feel incredibly blessed to have the opportunity to work with college students, especially at a school that I have come to love so much over the past four years. I am excited to see what God has for this campus and to see what He does through me and the Navigators as we represent Him on campus. This leads naturally into another topic that I would like to make a part of these updates, prayer requests. I would appreciate the prayers of any of you that are willing to join me this year. Having been on campus for two weeks now I see that one of the most immediate and obvious needs is to maintain the energy level needed for collegiate ministry. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t remember college ever being so intense while I was a student. That said, I have found great joy in working full time with students and have great joy being on campus reaching out to all the new students. Also, please pray for our staff team (myself and two other guys), that we would be an example to the students with whom we are meeting. Pray that God would continue to lead us to students that are interested in learning about Him.
One of the outreach dinners we have done at the house where I live with my fellow staff guys.
Lastly, I want to leave you with an encouraging story from my first weeks on campus. The Tuesday before classes start is when my job on campus officially began, as it was the first day students could move into the dorms. As a group the Navigators joined several other Christian ministries volunteering to help students with move-in on that day. One of the students we met that day was a transfer student living in one of the traditional style dorms. We invited him to come play ultimate frisbee with us and afterward he came over to hang out with several other students at our house. One of the students in our ministry gave him a ride back to campus that night and when he got in the car the first thing he asked was, “Why doesn’t anybody in your group swear?” Without telling him anything about who we are or what we are about, he saw a difference in our group. What a great reminder it was about the impact of our actions on those around us. This guy enjoys hanging out with us, has joined us several more times, and after every time he seems to be baffled by our group. Each of the conversations have led to an opportunities to share who we are and why we behave in such a unique way. Pray that we are able to continue having interactions with curious students like him, and that we would have opportunities to share the gospel with them!
One of the ways we meet students is through a spiritual interest survey conducted on campus. This year we met over 500 students!
Thanks for your prayers,
Cameron
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P.S. I have titled this blog, On the edge: For future practice, because I feel an internal obligation to utilize every chance I have at word play when blogging
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