Busy October

This month has been soooo busy and full!  We began the month with our annual Fall Retreat in Devils Lake, ND from October 7-9.  It was such a fun weekend as we had over 90 students join us!  The weekend was full of hearing from God's Word, being challenged in our walks with the Lord, confessing areas of sin, and experiencing God's grace and forgiveness.  In addition, we had a ton of fun and the students made great new friends!  Here are some pictures from Fall Retreat:

Fall Retreat Begins!

Worship practice!

Worship!

Students writing & processing areas they struggle.

Student's processing areas of struggle.

Student Responses

Eric Leinen, UND Alumni and our Fall Retreat Speaker

The Band leading us in Worship

Processing at Women's Time

Learning about our upcoming Outreach on Campus

Eric Leinen, UND Alumni and our Fall Retreat Speaker

Some of Kamaya's Senior Disciples

Everyone at Fall Retreat

The week after Fall Retreat we began our "Do You Agree with Luke?" Campaign.  Check out our October Prayer Letter (under the "Monthly Updates" Tab) to learn more about the fun ways God was at work that week!

Our month has also been full of travel.  Travel to speak at churches and to see family and friends!  While it's been a fun month, we are excited for our schedule to not be quite so crazy!

Enjoying the Fall Weather! 

Enjoying Fall Weather with our friends Desi & Kevin in Minneapolis!

And School Begins...

Time sure does fly!  I can't believe we haven't posted here since Christmas.  Seemingly life got busy and I spaced it.  However, on the dawn of a new school year we are back and desiring to keep people posted on life and ministry.

School starts TOMORROW and so we have already been meeting with our staff team for a few weeks!  We also just this past week had a leadership retreat with our returning leaders for this school year.  Our first round of surveys were even LAST NIGHT at the UND Involvement Fair.  

We are excited for what God might do this school year and are trusting Him for big things!  Here are a some pictures of our last few weeks.

We got to DJ the wedding of one of my disciples in early August!

Todd leading worship at our Leader's Retreat.

Students at our Leadership Retreat.

Giving away sunglasses at the Welcome Fair.

Working the table at the Welcome Fair.

Jonathan getting students to fill out a survey to win a gift card to Target.

Sporting Cru Sunglasses on our way to drop off more giveaways at the Welcome Fair.

Christmas & TCX

Well....It's hard to believe that January is almost over already!  The Christmas season has come and gone and now it's almost February.  Here are a few highlights from our Christmas break and our annual Christmas Conference, TCX over New Years.

On Christmas Eve at the Schnabel's

On Christmas Eve

On our way to TCX

The TCX Fireseeds assembling Day of Outreach Packets.  Kamaya is in charge of coaching the Fireseeds (students who promote TCX on their campus) all of the Region.

UND Students waiting for TCX to begin!

Waiting for the first session to start!

The Band

Jake, Jacqueline, & Todd taking selfies at TCX

Drama

Todd, Chris, & Nolan - Discipleship Generations.
Todd discipled Chris in Jersey, Chris discipled Nolan in NMB & Todd disciples Nolan at UND.

Greater Grand Forks at TCX

Worship

Behind the Scenes - Todd's View of TCX (he helped run slides and videos)

Campus Dinner Table Selfies - Dinner at Bucca's

More Dinner selfies

Dinner Selfies

Stay tuned for more coming soon!  It's been a fun beginning of 2016!  Even this week we are doing a big outreach called "Fill the Feast" and already have some fun stories.