Hello friends below you should find our update letter for July 2012.
Archive for the ‘Jesus’ Category
July Update 2012
Posted 02 Jul 2012 — by nick
Category Family, Friends, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Running, Spirituality
Category Family, Friends, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Running, Spirituality
May 2012 Update
Posted 11 May 2012 — by nick
Category Family, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Spirituality
Category Family, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Spirituality
Hello friends below you should find our update letter for May 2012. Make sure you check out the second page, a review of the past two months in pictures.
March 2012 Update
Posted 10 Mar 2012 — by nick
Category Friends, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Running, Scripture, Spirituality
Category Friends, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Running, Scripture, Spirituality
Hello friends below you should find our update letter for March 2012.
November 2011 Update
Posted 08 Nov 2011 — by nick
Category Friends, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Spirituality
Category Friends, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Spirituality
Hello friends below you should find our update letter for November 2011.
October 2011 Update
Posted 06 Oct 2011 — by nick
Category Friends, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Spirituality
Category Friends, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Spirituality
Hello friends below you should find our update letter for October 2011.
Campus, a challenge to faith
Posted 10 Aug 2011 — by nick
Category Blogs, Jesus, Ministry, Spirituality
Category Blogs, Jesus, Ministry, Spirituality
Often when I talk with folks about the work we do as missionaries on a college campus, I get this question:
“I hear today’s college campuses are really hostile to the Gospel, are you seeing that?”
I can only speak from my experience in the past 10 years at the University of Illinois, but certainly there has been a shift. The new atheists (as some have called them) have a strong voice, at times they’ve been hard to pick out against the hellfire and brimstone quad preachers of the past – both polar opposites, yet equally as hostile and alienating.
While I could go on and review many years of campus climate, I’ll let the words of James Emery White speak in this article. I believe they’re spot on.
I loved his conclusion:
“So this August, as you pack up your minivan or SUV to take your son or daughter off to college, give them one last word of advice. Not about binge drinking or safe sex, money management or proper nutrition. All well and good, to be sure.Give them a word about their souls, and the importance of a grounded faith.And then pray for them.”James Emery White “Church & Culture Blog”
August 2011 Update
Posted 08 Aug 2011 — by nick
Category Friends, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Spirituality
Category Friends, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Spirituality
Hello friends below you should find our update letter for August 2011.
July 2011 Update
Posted 01 Jul 2011 — by nick
Category GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Spirituality
Category GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Spirituality
Hello friends below you should find our update letter for July 2011.
May 2011 Update
Posted 09 May 2011 — by nick
Category Creation, Friends, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Spirituality
Category Creation, Friends, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Spirituality
Hello friends below you should find our update letter for May 2011.
Easter Sunday with Illini Life
Posted 27 Apr 2011 — by nick
Category Creation, Family, Friends, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, music, Photos, Spirituality
Category Creation, Family, Friends, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, music, Photos, Spirituality
Being in campus ministry has it’s differences from being a community church. One of the obvious places we see this is during the holidays. Student and University schedules are built around being able to return home for Christmas, Thanksgiving and so on. At the University of Illinois some years Spring break falls at a time that allows students to celebrate Easter at home. Most often, though, it does not – leaving many on campus rather than travel quite a distance to visit family.
In this place we, Illini Life, get to step in and be a community that celebrates and remembers Christ’s death and resurrection together. It’s one of my favorite times of the year – we’re reminded that our God conquered the grave, the tomb was empty and in the same way we have been risen to new life in Him. A time worthy of celebrating such as this shouldn’t be contained behind the walls of a building nor in the solitude of loneliness.
Each year we gather those that are still on campus and celebrate the empty tomb together in an open air service right on the heart of campus – the Krannert Amphitheater. Afterwards we gather at a home in the community for a feast.
This past Sunday Amy and I enjoyed celebrating with our church home and our students. Early that morning I had gotten up to get on my bike and ride into the country. Enjoying the solitude and early morning sun I began singing the words of Charlie Hall’s “Marvelous light”
Sin has lost it’s power,
death has lost it’s sting.
From the grave you’ve risen
VICTORIOUSLY!
What a great God we serve!
