Students decide to come to Project and get involved with Campus Outreach through many different avenues. Some wander upon Campus Outreach events, some meet a staff person, and some get connected to another student who is already involved. But a common denominator through it all, is that it’s the relationships that make people stay.
Last Monday, Blake Buckman, Regional Director of CO Louisville, talked on the importance and impact of discipleship. Going through his spiritual ancestry, he shared with us how he and his mentors had been impacted for Christ and how he has been a part of a long chain to keep growing the Kingdom. It was extremely impactful to hear how the staff person he had discipled, discipled one of our team leaders down here who had discipled a couple of the participants down here. What a testament of God’s grace!
This is the story for many down here. Each member of our crew of team leaders had been discipled by someone who had helped lead us and impact us to Christ and brought us to our first Projects. Then each of us have our own people down here that we have discipled and encouraged to come to Project this year. It is beautiful to think just how interconnected all of our stories are to each other’s.
“Discipleship is a command from Jesus to give your life away to someone else while teaching and training them to be a follower of Christ with the goal to multiply.”
Discipleship is a long term vision. We invest in others that they may in turn invest in others that they may in turn invest in others. If every Christian was faithful to doing that, we would reach a lot of people.
So we want to be faithful with what God has given us and the people he has placed in our lives. We are blessed to be a blessing to others. As we get closer to finishing our time down here, that is something that we want to remember as we go back to our normal lives.
Some Fun Things
Thursday Night Social
Last Thursday the social was Christmas in July! We all had a great time finding some Christmas outfits from Goodwill and celebrating Christmas in the 90 degree heat of South Carolina! We ate Christmas dinner together with candles lit and happy hearts. We then had a blast playing Christmas bingo and having a human wrapping and cookie decorating competition! We ended the night watching Home Alone by the pool.
Fourth of July
Last Monday we were all able to celebrate the Fourth of July together after work and after the Theme Talk. We all had a blast at the pool watching thousands of fireworks go off at the beach and lighting our own sparklers. There truly is nothing quite like a Project Fourth of July pool party!
