Summer Project!!!

Hello!

We hope your summer is going well thus far. We’d like to share some of what our students are doing this summer. Every year we challenge all our students to give a portion their summer to the Lord to do missions anywhere in the nation or even the world. These mission trips are called Summer Projects, where students go to different parts of the world to proclaim the Gospel for 6 to 10 weeks. We believe this is a great opportunity to stretch and grow our students tremendously.

One of our students currently on Summer Project is Nathan from UNK. Nathan is in Long Beach, CA and his Project has been a growth opportunity for his walk with the Lord. Nathan has spent a lot of time while in Long Beach reflecting on his personal sin issues and asking the Lord to change his heart. One of the greatest lessons he is learning right now is how to find his identity in Jesus rather than in the world.

The issue of finding their identity outside of Christ is something that a majority of our students deal with. They could be identifying themselves by their field of study, by the sports they play, the relationships they’re in, or even the way they look, but we are to look only to Christ to shape who we are. Nathan currently has someone on Project to disciple him and is working with an accountability partner to keep his heart in check with God’s heart. The ways in which Nathan is growing spiritually will be so important once he is outside of this Summer Project environment and back on campus with his peers. He’ll be much better equipped to face struggles and challenges of his everyday life now that he has a Biblical perspective of who he is according to our Lord.

Another student currently in Long Beach is Jon, also from UNK. Jon has a heart for evangelism so what he has been most encouraged by during Summer Project is the opportunities he’s had to share his faith. He is a part of the outreach team for his Project so he helps organize what type of outreach the group will be doing that week. One of his favorite evangelism opportunities so far was going to Huntington Beach during a concert and volleyball tournament when a lot of people would be around and sharing the gospel there. They have also gone out to a park and given sandwiches to homeless people and shared the gospel with them. Jon has a man to disciple him while he’s on Project and they go out once a week, just the two of them, to share the gospel with people they meet around Long Beach. Jon feels very prepared to take the evangelism opportunities he has had in Long Beach back to his campus in Kearney in order to help us reach more students with the good news of Jesus Christ.

Summer Project has made a life-long impact on our students from accross the nation. Please join us this summer in prayer for Nathan, Jon, and the other students in our state while they are being sharpened by the Lord and proclaiming the Gospel.

Serving with you,

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