HAITI UPDATE

Our group went to Haiti over spring break and brought the good news of Jesus Christ to the people of Haiti as well as distributed over 10,000 for repairs, food, etc. to the orphanage and people around the town.

Many of you know that US Bank held a contest recently about getting ahead in 2010. The whole purpose of the contest was to submit a brief story regarding how $5,000 would impact your life for 2010. A fellow intern with UCLA Chi Alpha submitted a brief story about how the money would go to help buy food and supplies to the orphanage our group supports down in Haiti. The winning story would be determined by the one that received the most daily votes in approximately a month’s time. Our group did a huge push to get votes for or orphanage, but still came up short. In the end, our group was in third place, thousands behind 2nd and 1st. However, the intern who submitted the story received some paperwork to fill out in the mail recently from US Bank. Some of the questions where quite in depth so she called the number on the paper work to ask a few questions. While on the phone, she asked if the top three stories received the paperwork incase the 1st and 2nd story was disqualified or didn’t return the paperwork. The operator replied something along the lines that other contests do that, but US Bank only sends out paperwork to the winner, and that they choose our story to receive the $5,000! Praise God, because that is a huge miracle and only God could have made that happen. Everything will be finalized in the next two weeks or so, but from the looks of it, God just did a major miracle for our group and our orphanage in Haiti! Thank you for everyone who voted, you helped make this possible.

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QUICK MISSOURI UPDATE

Over break I headed back to Missouri and met with people and spoke briefly at my home church in the Lake of the Ozarks. The church took up an offering for me and will be sending it in the mail soon, so that will be a huge blessing. It was a good visit to see friends, family, and share the vision of college missions back in the mid west. My friend’s dad prayed over me and had a word for the LORD, part of the word being “Provision is here” so I’m really looking forward to that.

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SPRING QUARTER AT UCLA

The quarter just started up again a few weeks ago. We had our second service of the quarter earlier this week along with a free food fellowship with games afterwards. It was almost 12:00 AM when we all left to finally go home. After the service, there was an awesome time of prayer for people who responded to the alter call for people needing breakthrough in certain areas.

Over the weekend for Resurrection Sunday, we took three internationals to a local church for the Resurrection day service. It was extra meaningful because two of them accepted Christ through our ministry and it was not only the most glorious day in existence that they went to church, but it was their first ever official church service.

Last week while me and a few staff members where meeting with the international student from China who had recently accepted Christ, he spoke of his vision to start a Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship at his university in China. He said nothing like Chi Alpha existed in China at his University. Internationals over the years have said similar things, but the campus pastor believes this is the real deal and that he thinks he is serious and WILL actually follow through. This Chinese student is a visionary, working in the masters program at the Business school.

Next week we are having a water baptismal service for all of the students who got saved in our ministry, as well as for students involved who have been Christians, but never had the opportunity to go ahead and get baptized.

So far the quarter has started out strong, and we expect to end the year the best ever in our five
years at UCLA.