Last week after our study on Monday night, one of the students had a question about the Bible.  Two hours later I looked up and everyone was gone and my family had gone to bed.  Two and a half more hours later I took him back to the dorms.  He is trying to decide if this God and Jesus and Bible thing is really true and worth following, so he had a lot of sincere questions.

Sometimes student ministry fits in a somewhat regular schedule and many times it doesn’t.  We have a lifestyle job instead of a time clock job. So normal doesn’t always apply.  Monday nights may end at 8:30 or 1 am.  Wednesday nights our after weekly meeting talking may end at 10 or midnight.  Friday nights our Friday Night Thing may end … well, you just never know.

The common thread through this is discipleship.  Some of the time may be fun and most of the time there are good discussions where we share life together, understand Jesus better, encourage one another in the midst of present circumstances, etc.   And then sometimes the most powerful discipleship words are “I’m going to bed.”

The retreat went very well.  Thirty-eight (38) attended which was the most ever for Challenge.  Several international students (from Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and Japan) also came.  The man from Brazil had just received Christ (”said the big yes”) just two days before and shared his “history” with everyone.  He said this was why he had come to the US.

We had a very good time on Saturday morning.  Everyone had around 45 minutes to read through the story of the rich young man and then we discussed it during the session.  That story was a challenge for everyone there.

Thank you for your prayers!