Friends,
It’s June and nearly all our students have left Brown’s campus, including our first-ever graduating class. As I’ve said in past prayer emails, this senior class that has just graduated was the first class of Brown students that Matt Woodard, Ministry Director, and I gathered together in the fall of 2014. In those first few months of their freshman year, these students trusted God with a vision of a community that was yet to be formed. They risked their time, energy and resources to gather friends for Bible Courses, retreats, campus outreach events and so much more. And you know what? God rewarded their faith. Over the course of their four years at Brown, God used these students to form a Christ-centered community on campus to help encourage Christian students while also witnessing to the hope of the gospel to the wider Brown community. If it weren’t for these students, these recently graduated seniors, and their love for Jesus and others, we definitely wouldn’t be the ministry we are today. Praise be to God for these young men and women that He so faithfully raised up for such a time as this!
To that end, could you pray with us for the following:
Graduated Seniors
These seniors, to whom we’ve just said goodbye, will be spreading out across the globe – from California to New York City, to Washington, to China and some are even staying right here in Providence. Pray that as they spread out, they will continue to grow in their faith and be emboldened to give witness to Jesus. Many recent college graduates fall away from the faith. Pray that that is not the case with these recent graduates, but rather, that they would find solid, thriving church communities where God’s Word is taught and where they are equipped to be sent out to spread the gospel.
Returning Students
Please pray for students who will be returning to campus in the fall. As is the case each year, these students are also spread out across the globe. Pray that this would be a season of tremendous spiritual growth. Pray also for those few students who are staying in Providence this summer. We hope to gather them on Wednesday evenings in June and July for community and to study the book of Revelation. Pray that this would be an opportune time for us all to get to know one another better while deepening our understanding of God’s Word.
Thank you for your ongoing support. Your prayers and financial gifts sustain us and allow us to do what we’ve been called to do here at Brown. May God bless you and keep you during these summer months!
In Christ,
Justin Doyle
Ministry Fellow
Christian Union at Brown University
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