October 2011 - News Report

“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” - 2 Corinthians 4:18

By mid-October, students are trying to balance school, friends, family, work, ministry, and their relationships with God. Sometimes things slip out of perspective and start to get fuzzy. Fall retreat is a time where students can get away for a weekend of worship, teaching, relaxing, and connecting with others. This year we had over 110 students from NJ join with a group of 60 from Westchester, PA to learn to focus their attention on Jesus through it all.
 
During women’s time, the women were especially challenged in their relationships with one another by guest speaker, Sarah Evers, who spoke about what it means to be an “ezer”. Although I was privileged to lead a seminar on evangelism and train students to uniquely initiate conversation with friends, family and peers, my favorite aspect of the retreat was following up with these Kean women (pictured left). Raised Catholic, Dailyn Santana (sitting in front of me), prayed to enter into an intimate relationship with Jesus at FR2011 and attends Bible Studies & women’s fellowship regularly! :) “You girls have NO idea, this weekend was like ‘answered prayers weekend’! I told God I wanted to really know Him at Fall retreat and I did, then I wanted female friends and you’re here!”

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Christa, Victoria, Maria, Sindy, Liscet, Alison

Homecoming Festivities!

Aside from bowling nights, Pizza & God, and Bible study, another way Kean thought to reach their campus was to participate in the annual Homecoming festivities! This year student organizations were given a "Jersey Shore" theme to promote their group at the tailgate festival. Families came to support our winning football team and enjoy the free games and food. Kean Cru leader and senior, Liscet Duran (second from right), ran for homecoming queen and told the voting committee it was for the sake of bringing MORE glory to God who's brought her through these last years! :)

Joe Ro, Harvey Minano, Joe Celentano

Please continue to pray that the Kean leadership team wisely decides how to reach their campus for God’s glory!

Thanks for helping make this happen!

Quest Week:

Evangelism Front: Following Fall Retreat, students went back to NJ on a quest. Quest week is an evangelism initiative to reach various students whom we wouldn’t normally encounter with the Gospel. Students did surveys, planned events, and sought new ways to reach their campuses. At Kean, I had the honor of cooking nearly 50 empanadas for an open conversation event called “Empanadas & God”.  Conversation was very typical for Kean. Most of these students know about God, but can’t understand the difference between “baptism” and “salvation” or how to actually know that you’re saved! :

Prayer Requests: 1. As a state we are praying for 200 students from NJ to attend RADIATE 2011! :) 2. That Dailyn and all the other students who attended FR2011 will keep focused on their Creator and the reason why they live. Praises: I moved into an apartment in Jersey City October 1st! :) My new address is: 21 St. Paul's Ave. 1 Jersey City, NJ 07306 55 students are involved in the  Kean Cru weekly Bible Study! Nearly 200 students attended JCru, our statewide meeting! At least 2 students prayed to know Christ @ FR 2011!