The week before school began we started with a staff retreat! It was fun to hang out with our team and bond with them a bit before the year began. This was especially fun because three new people were added to our team this year...Jake & Jacque (Jake went to school at NDSU with Todd...and it's fun to have another Bison on our team) and Cody, who recently graduated from UND and is interning with us this year. Praise God for our team!
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| Our Team at Staff Retreat! |
One day after staff retreat, we left for our leadership retreat at Turtle River State Park. Our student leaders came back a few days early so that we could have some quality time together for them to bond before school began and so that we could equip them to meet students and share the gospel the first week of school.
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| A good old fashion game of Alaskan Football at Leader's Retreat. |
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| More Alaskan Football. |
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| Training and Equipping Time. |
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| Some fun hang out time in the park! |
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| Most of our leaders and staff (Some students left before this picture was taken.) |
And then the year was off and running. Sunday night was the student organization fair, that got moved indoors because of weather. It was a great time to meet students and have them fill out surveys...especially since they could win a $250 Target Gift Card!
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| The Student Organization Fair. |
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| Taking Surveys at the fair. |
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| More surveys at the Fair. |
Monday afternoon we had a party in the quad where we played volleyball, bag toss, spike ball, and ladder ball with anyone who wanted to join us. Tuesday night we had our first Cru Meeting and it was packed! It was so much fun to see so many new faces that we didn't recognize.
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| First Cru Meeting |
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| First Cru Meeting |
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| First Cru |
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| First Cru |
Wednesday afternoon we did some more surveys in the Dining Center. This time we gave away a UND Hockey Jersey in a drawing for those who filled out a survey!
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| Dinner Line Surveys |
We ended the week with a Character Challenge Grill out at University Park. It was so fun to have over 80 students join us for food and fun!
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| Character Challenge Time in the park! |
It definitely has been a busy couple of weeks! But it was so much fun. In between all of these events we as staff and students spent many hours meeting students that filled out surveys and sharing with them about Jesus! So many students heard the gospel this week and at least six of them put their trust in Jesus.
