Hey Day

One of our students, Joel, isn't a Mizzou student. He goes to another local college, Columbia College, which is less than a mile away from where I live and is about the same distance north of the MU campus. He saw a need for the gospel at his school of just of 3000 students and pursued launching a bible study that just got started this past Sunday. Recently, he applied for a spot for The Rock at their "Hey Day" event, which is essentially a student activities fair. Joel asked me and another student for some help working the event.

I spent my midday with him and Jacob passing out Icee Pops, handing out information on our church and having great conversations with students at Columbia College. We passed out about fifty flyers for his bible study and we have about as many people to contact about Community Group and church on Sunday.

It was a fun opportunity to help meet a need in a nearby campus. We're thanking the Lord for prompting Joel to reach out to his fellow classmates and I'd ask you to pray with me that the Lord stirs in the hearts of students at Columbia College.

September 2014 Prayer Letter

Click the picture above to see my latest prayer letter! We've had a busy past couple of weeks and I'm excited to share with you.

Chris

First Service

Just a quick update for you all! We have been working a ton since Move-In Week and the Lord brought 276 people to our first service last weekend! That's over 40 more than our highest attendance ever! We're so pumped. I can't wait to kick a prayer letter out soon but we're still spinning our wheels and hopefully I can get one out early next week.

Thanks for praying with us!

Rock Welcome Video

One of our students, Sarah Bell, created this Welcome Video for our church over the summer. She is a joy to work with and I'm really thankful for her to lend her creative eye and skills for us. Take a look!

Move-In Week 2014

Things are about to go nuts here at Mizzou. 7000 freshmen will begin pouring onto campus this week and we at The Rock will do a lot to try and reach them. Move-In Week creates so many opportunities for us to gather back together as a church, consider the new wave of students coming in and join in mission to do some heavy outreach as the new school year gets started.

Vision Night

We begin with Vision Night - an opportunity to reconnect as a church and dream about where the Lord might be taking our church this year. We roll out new outreach plans, goals for the year and train our students for what we will be doing the next couple weeks.

Survey Tables

 For three days straight, from 9am-4pm, we will set up a tent and pass out over 5000 icee pops (currently stored in various freezers, including our own) while we get 2200 students to fill out our Spiritual Interest Surveys.

Follow Ups

From there, we follow up with these students personally. I conduct a Welcome to Mizzou email, letting them know about events we have for the first couple of weeks. Each community group will send people out in pairs to visit the people who showed interest, about a couple hundred people in all. These visits are crucial for us, allowing us to meet freshmen early on, build friendships and invite them to our first few events.

Kick-Off Service

After various BBQs, dorm hangouts and games of ultimate Frisbee, we'll have our kick-off service. This year, we will begin looking at various encounters with Jesus throughout the gospels, asking students to consider what an encounter with Jesus might look like for them and to interpret what he might be trying to share with them as they begin a new school year.

Please be praying for these events! We can't wait to get started!