Happy New Year to you! I hope your Christmas season was filled with joy and rest and you’re starting 2025 feeling refreshed! Jim, our men's ministry fellow, and I just returned from the Christian Union Faculty Momentum, a five-day conference devoted to seeking God together in prayer, scripture, worship, and fellowship. We both met with the Lord and are feeling so encouraged for the future of Christian Union and, of course, for what God is doing on Harvard’s campus.
As we wait for students to arrive back on campus at the end of this month, Jim and I are preparing in a two-week frenzy–we each will be teaching three different Bible Courses this semester, as is customary each spring. Our seniors will be going through Christian Union's course on vocational preparation, a curriculum designed to have more specific applications to following Jesus in life after college. This course is always a sweet time to reflect, prepare, and strengthen the bonds of friendship before being sent out. Our first-year students will be splitting equal time between our Seeking God Lifestyle curriculum, where they’ll learn and discuss how to truly seek after the Spirit of God on a daily basis, and our Sex and Spirituality curriculum, where they’ll dig deeper into God’s intention and design for us as His creatures. Finally, our sophomores and juniors will both be going through the book of Acts; twenty-eight chapters in ten weeks is no small feat! Will you join us in prayer for each of these Bible Courses? We desperately need the help and inspiration of the Holy Spirit as God employs us to help form the students He has entrusted to us.
We are using the month of January to assess our mid-year budget and reach out to those of you who support us to say, “THANK YOU!”
For those who are prayer warriors on our behalf, please reply to this email so we can stay in touch with you personally! And if you are reading this without having become a Cornerstone Partner or having stopped your giving, would you prayerfully consider if the Lord may have you give?
We are so excited about what God is doing here and are only equipped to do so through the help of everyday saints, like yourself. We are deeply looking forward to connecting with you personally soon.
In the meantime, may God bless you richly!
With faith and joy,
Sadie Sasser
Sadie.Sasser@ChristianUnion.org
Ministry Fellow, Christian Union Gloria
