Hi friends and family! We're now about a month into the school year, I'm starting to get a good idea of my routine, and relationship building has been really sweet and encouraging! I've been continuing to learn so much in our apprentice classes, we are now in the minor prophets in the bible and I'm learning how the prophets were used to speak to the needs of the community while also being convicted themselves of how much they need God just as much as the people who they're speaking to.  I love getting to learn so much context and depth from scripture in our masters-level textbook reading and lectures! One of our student leaders, Leo (who is holding the sign here) initiated on his own, a time to outreach to students on campus and ask how we can be praying for things going on in their life. A few of our students in our ministry were able to join and this was such an encouraging experience where several students came up for prayer and some of them were also interested

 Back again for a surprise bonus update for August pt.2! There was so much that God was doing in August, and I didn't want to overload too much in combining with September's update so here's an encouragement for the second half of the month! Thank you so much for your support providing me to update with even more information! Corefa Retreat This was one of my favorite things we got to do this month! Corefa stands for core facilitator, this year we have forty student leaders in our ministry that sacrifice so much of their time to lead our small groups! They commit to co-leading a weekly small group, coming to our weekly combined leader meetings, attend our weekly large group gatherings, AND lead one on one bible studies with SEVERAL of their small group members called foj (Focus on Jesus, which is a 10 week bible study). Here's a link to the study on our website if you're interested in the content that it covers! https://anyfocus.org/focus-on-jesus-2022/. This is no