Friday, July 31, 2009
Welcome to the Asian American Campus Ministry newsletter! We will be keeping you updated on the latest events in AACM and how God is working through us to transform the campus and the world. Please feel free to reply to aacm.iv@gmail.com if you have any questions or comments.
1) 10:2 Advance (August 21)
August 21st at 4:00pm in Welch 3.502.
He told them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask
the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his
harvest field. ~Luke 10:2
10:2 Advance is our first official joint event that we will be having
with InterVarsity Jester Mission (IVJM). Leaders and non-leaders of
AACM are welcome to come to worship and fellowship together, to
discuss the vision that we have for the campus, and to spend time
praying for the UT campus. Afterwards, we will all go out to Rudy's
BBQ for a time of fellowship and to get a chance to know each other.
2) Evangelism Training (August 22)
Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on
earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have
commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the
age." ~Matthew 28:18-20
Have you wondered what it means to "make disciples" especially here at
UT? Should sharing the Gospel of Christ be something to be feared?
Come to the evangelism training to learn that sharing the good news
shouldn't be a dreaded task but instead, it is a natural part of our
walk with Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. This will be
on August 22nd (Location and Time TBD). Leaders strongly encouraged
to attend :)
3) Prayer Calendar:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rXfh6rrGDCZGaMB7rG83Vcg
Remember to sign up for the prayer calendar; there are still some
empty spots near the end close to the beginning of the school year.
And even more importantly, remember to pray on the day you signed up
for and to remind the next person on the list with an email or phone
call. More instructions of what to pray for are on the document
itself.
4) Mission Blog:
http://missionaacm.tumblr.com/
AACM is super blessed to have a good amount of people going overseas
for missions this summer. Please support them in prayer and by
hearing what they are experiencing in the AACM missions blog (link
above). It's a good way to see how God is working in the world
outside of our own lives. If you are interested in learning more
about their experiences, don't hesitate to ask them. It'll be a huge
blessing to them as well.
5) Urbana:
http://www.urbana09.org
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=103200255819
Urbana is a missions conference hosted by InterVarsity once every
three years. Come see how God is working throughout the whole world
and how you can be involved! The first link will lead you to
registration for Urbana and provides additional information on what to
expect. The second link will RSVP you with the AACM group if you want
housing with AACM. Don't forget to sign up on the spreadsheet for
housing: http://tinyurl.com/AACM-URBANA
6) Vision:
"For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." ~2 Corinthians 5:14-21
This passage is our theme verse for the upcoming school year. Here are a few key points from the passage:
- Because Christ died for our sins, we have the opportunity to become a new creation in him! - Because we are reconciled to God through Christ, we are now entitled to proclaim this message of reconciliation to the world.- This shows that God desires to give everyone a chance to repair their severely broken relationship with him in order to make us whole and complete in him once again.
We want to see how God will teach us and use us to live out this passage for the upcoming school year, so please meditate and pray over it.
Email aacm.iv@gmail.com if you have any questions. Have a good summer!
Sincerely, Ben Yang
posted by AACM 11:53 AM
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