Prayers Please!

Student missionaries in the Adoration chapel on campus

Tonight we met with our student missionaries here at Belmont Abbey for prayer, fellowship, and planning for Fall Outreach which starts Friday! Please keep us all in your prayers, especially the 335 new freshman that will be coming to campus!

We will be starting bright and early Friday morning to help the freshman move into their dorm rooms. This is such a crucial time because for many freshman, the people they meet in the first week will be the people they spend the next four years with. We hope to meet as many of them as we can, get their names and contact information, and then personally invite them to the welcome-back events this weekend and lots of fun activities we'll be planning next week. We want to get them plugged in right away and eventually invite them to Bible studies.

Here is a quote from Pope Francis that we discussed tonight with the student missionaries.

“Don't be afraid of love, of the love of God, Our Father. … Don't be afraid to receive the grace of Jesus Christ. Don't be afraid of our freedom that is given by the grace of Jesus Christ... Don't be afraid of grace. Don't be afraid to go out of yourselves … to go and find the 99 who aren't home. Go out to dialogue with them and tell them what we think. Go show them our love, which is God's love.” – Pope Francis 

Please pray for us that God gives us the grace to bring His light to the students on campus and that we won't let fear hold us back. We'll be praying for you and all your intentions as we step on campus!