FR.2010 - From the Inside Out

Every October, Jersey Metro joins the Westchester team and this year, the Philly Metro team of Campus Crusade for Christ to have a fun weekend away at Harvey Cedars Bible Conference. This Fall Retreat is meant to give our students a time to rest and draw closer to God as they are away from midterms and work for the weekend.
      This year, Roger Hershey spoke about living a life surrendered to Christ and led by the Holy Spirit from the Inside Out. Our Jersey Cru emcees engaged the 200+ students and our band led them in worship all five meetings. The students had a chance to attend seminars that trained them in living the spirit-filled life and so much more.

Chinwe (Pictured right) prayed with her best friend, Ashley (on right), to receive Christ just last year. Ashley is a freshman at Rutgers Newark helping me to pioneer a CCC ministry there. So far Ashley has enjoyed growing in her faith at Fall Retreat and meeting many other Christians at Jersey Cru.  I've always known God has been active in my life even before I got saved but seeing how he impacted others life as we all got to know each other at the Fall Retreat was truly amazing. I've never been in an environment with so many Christians so I know God put me there for a reason. My experience at the retreat changed the way I look at life and people for the better. It was as if God had the speakers write their speech specifically for me because I related to everything so much it was almost scary. God spoke through the speakers and taught me not to judge others because of their sexuality or due to jealousy which unfortunately are things that I used to do. Hearing that God loves me, will do anything for me and deserves to be praised and worshipped was nothing new to me, it was just how the speakers attached what I already knew to situations in everyday life. Everything that happened at the retreat happened for a reason and I thank God for giving me such a wonderful experience. – Ashley Ezewuiro, Rutgers University – Newark, NJ