3-on-3 Basketball Tournament

I did the 3-on-3 tournament last week and my goals were one, to meet as many freshmen guys as possible. Second, I wanted to create and build a relationship between Campus Outreach and the University, primarily the Intramural department. Finally, I wanted to create and environment that was fun and inviting. I believed all three were accomplished and more. The environment was fun and we played music while the students played and I asked them about this and they all loved it. They asked if I could get intramurals to do it during their games. The Intramural department asked me if I had any more ideas that they could partner with us in again. And finally, I met a lot of new guys. There were about 12 sign up for bible studies and I have spent the week following up with them. The guys in the pictures are jsut some that signed up and i met all of them. These guys played in the championship. We gave the winners each a $50 gift certificate to either Wal-mart or Best Buy. Also the runners-up got a $25 dollar gift certificate to a great local restaurant called Nick and Nate's. These organizations helped us Tremdously and I am very thankful for their support, God provided greatly for this event.

Isaiah 6:3 "Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!"

Here We Go!

Well I'm here! I am so excited and thankful that God would provide the way he has. Over the past couple weeks here I have met new men and shared the gospel with them already. One guy in particular I would like for you to pray for, lives for the pleasures of the world drinking, partying, girls, etc. He thinks the Christian life just isn't fun. I have been inviting him to meetings and events we do so he can be around a group of believers that enjoy life and Christ without the fleeting pleasures of this world. I gave my first talk last week and talked about righteousness and how Christ is redefining they way we view it. The scripture I used was from the sermon on the mount in Matthew 5:20. This is what we are studying with our students this semester. Jesus is telling us we need to be better than the pharisee's and scribes to get into heaven, but he redefines righteousness because in that day no one could be better than the scribes so the people felt hopeless. The cool thing here is that the people are right, we can not be better than the "Professionals." So what then? Are we to give up? No, Christ gives us his righteousness if we only believe. (Romans 3:22) So thats how we inherit the kingdom of heaven, it isn't about us it's about Jesus!