April Update

Hi friends and family! I hope you are all having a great spring! About a week and a half ago, I returned from my two-month tour through the Rockies region in the US. The last week and a half, I have been resting before returning to work next week to follow up with students who attended all of our events.

This tour was so amazing, stretching, and taught me so much about the Lord’s faithfulness. Overall, from all our 24 teams that were out for the last two months, we saw 37,498 people gathered, 4,767 people gave their lives to the Lord, 172 people healed, and 41 people baptized!

Here are some stories of personal highlights from my tour:

We hosted our largest event at Washington State University, with around 200 people attending. While I was visiting Pullman, I got to visit my cousin Brooke, who goes to WSU, and my sister, her husband, and baby drove down from Idaho and were able to attend our day-one event! This was also my first time preaching on this tour, so it was such a fun opportunity to get to have some family there for it.

At this event, one of my personal favorite testimonies was from a girl who gave her life to the Lord. She had been attending a campus ministry for months but had not yet decided to go all in for her faith, until this night! Then the next day, she ended up attending our evangelism training and going out and evangelising on her campus, telling her testimony about what the Lord had done in her life, only the night before!

Another one of my favorite stories is from when we were at the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. We hosted a youth event with a church in the area, and were able to connect with so many of the kids in the area on the reservation. Here we saw two young girls, who were friends, probably elementary school age, decide to give their lives to the Lord! It was such a sweet and tender moment to see how the Lord can meet people despite their young age.

Colorado was probably one of my favorite states that we visited. One of my favorite stops was Colorado State University. God’s sovereign hand was so evident in the planning process with this school. In the fall, I found myself filled with so much faith for what the Lord wanted to do with our partnership with this campus. We didn’t have any active contacts with the school, though, so after lots of cold-calling and reaching out, I found a student team of three roommates who were best friends. All the planning through the fall went great, and the student hosts even started a monthly evangelism outreach on their campus during the fall. In the days leading up to the event, a bunch came up with finding a venue, to the point where we were about to have to cancel the event the night before. Then, last minute, the host home we were staying at offered that we gather in their living room, which was 40 minutes away from the campus. So at 11 pm the night before the event, I updated the venue. Around 60 people ended up coming the next night and cramming into this living room. The Holy Spirit was so evident in the room, worship broke out, and it ended up being my favorite night of preaching. The group of students we got to work with quickly felt like family, and the Lord created a true atmosphere of family in Fort Collins.

We also went to the University of Colorado Colorado Springs and Colorado College, which are in the Springs area. Both of these schools were so incredibly fun, and there were so many students who went to all of our stops in the Springs/Denver area, so we got to spend almost two weeks with them! This ended up being so impactful, as normally we only get to be with people for two days or so.

At Colorado College, we gathered for our event in their chapel on campus. This event was the first time the chapel had had a Christian event in it. Previously, other religious groups, drag groups, and others had gathered in the chapel, so this was a big moment for the students at the school to finally get to host a Christian event.

One of our student connects in Colorado Springs also started an evangelism outreach in the past year, which is now gathering around 60 people per month to go out and evangelize in the Springs. The Lord is moving in Colorado, and young people are stepping out in boldness in their faith!

These are just a few stories and moments from tour that impacted me personally. The Lord continued to show up and do more abundantly than I expected over and over again, and was so faithful in all the details. This summer will entail doing follow-up, summer schools, and helping with our high school summer camp that we run. Then next fall onto another tour!

As for the rest of life, it has been quite busy! My niece was born, and I was able to fly home the day of to get to meet her! I have also been doing lots of wedding/bachelorette prep because my roommate is getting married this upcoming month! So lots of exciting things coming up the pipeline.

I am so extremely grateful for all your support, and your continued prayers that give me the ability to do continued outreaches like this!