Sadie’s Story
Steph is one of our staff who I (Trevor) supervise and she ministers at the University of Calgary. This school year she’s been meeting regularly with a 4th year student leader named Neka for discipleship and they’ve also been trying to reach out to share Christ with Neka’s friends. Over the past few months, they've been getting to know and having great conversations with one of Neka’s friend’s named Sadie. A couple weeks ago, they met up with Sadie again. When they met, Sadie exclaimed this statement, "So I wanted to tell you guys, this past Sunday I declared my faith in Christ!"
Steph replied, "Oh that's so exciting! Tell us more, what did that look like?"After a few clarifying questions, it was a joyful time to celebrate Sadie giving her life to Christ! Sadie has been reading the Bible regularly, a chapter a day, and recently just finished Genesis. Sadie asked Steph, "I wanted to ask you guys, what now? What should I do next?" Sadie has a desire to grow in her new found faith, which is so encouraging. She talked about how God wants to continue to work in her and transform her. The girls talked about what it means to surrender to Christ daily. And they are going to keep meeting up and talking about some practical ways to grow in spiritual disciplines like Bible reading, prayer and church community….So we can be praying for Sadie, our new sister in Christ!
Family Update
As we told you in our last update, baby Avery was born at home on December 16, so she is approaching 3 months old! We’ve been blessed by meals, gifts and other acts of kindness. And we’ve been adjusting to life as a family of 4 along with it’s joys and frustration. Amelia has adjusted to the big sister overall well, but with times of emotion that she hasn’t been able to verbalize. Avery has been sleeping fairly well at night, but sometimes is a cat naper during the day so far. And she’s been crankier the past few days, but we haven’t figured out quite why. Trevor returned to work last week after a couple of months of parental leave and Hannah is on Maternity leave until probably around November. We are grateful for your support, love, care and prayers for our family.
A Scholarship Opportunity
The last couple of years our ministry has been ramping up a scholarship program to help encourage new post-secondary students to get connected into Christian community and continue growing in their faith as they transition to college/university.
This year there are 43 scholarships available, totalling up to $30,000. The largest scholarship available is $3000, which is open to any applicant going to a publicly funded post-secondary institution in Canada. There will be twelve $1000 scholarships and thirty $500 scholarships.
Please encourage any graduating high school students you know to consider applying. More details and the link to apply is at the button below.
Thank you for your support in helping students to discover Jesus!