13 April 2011

Akpene's Adventures Volume 2 Issue 2

Rez Week Awesomeness!

Rez Week has begun! Every year for the past 17 years, campus ministries have been getting together to host a united catalytic event called Resurrection Week, or Rez Week for short, a week long celebration of prayer, worship, service and outreach 24 hours a day.
 
We have a former UT grad speaking, who was a former Muslin and is now pastoring a church in Frisco, Texas. I must say, he was absolutely phenomenal! He had a stripped down, in your face message about following Jesus and seriously counting the cost to do so. He was calling out to students to test it out for 
themselves, and lay down their lives (no one foot in the world, one foot out), and follow Him.

I talked to several students who told me how much that made an impact and made them think. Yay God!!! Ross Parsley from One Chapel and the Desperation Band played for an anointed worship time, and when everything had finished, we looked up and noticed that there was a cross made of light in the sky, right above the plaza! We were praying for signs and wonders; talk about a sign that will make you wonder!

Looking Forward

I know some of you are new to my updates; as news to you and a reminder to the rest, God has called me to relocate to New York City to help with the work there.

NYC is such an area of need, yet there’s an amazing spiritual hunger there. Our President, Jeremy Story, held a pre-rally for the annual prayer assembly a couple weeks ago, and what came out of that was wild: as they were praying, someone sensed a need for a time of healing, and out of that night, many people were healed, and from those testimonies, there were reports of some salvations from friends of those healed!

I am going to NYC to carry what I’ve learned and done here in Austin, and the Lord made that clear to me, unmistakably. Austin has been prayed for and warred for in the heavenlies, and many people I have talked to agree with me that we are just on the cusp of that wave. I’m now to take that and partner with others to do the same in New York City and the North East United States.

So, in August begins this new phase of my work with Campus Renewal, and I am so very excited, both with the work I am still doing (praying with campus ministers and mentoring students), and the work God is laying out for me in NYC. While still maintaining my current position, we hope to expand my role with more teaching and training opportunities. There is still much preparation to be done though. Can you join with me in prayer as I look for a place to live, hopefully somewhere just north of the city where I still can commute in? I also want to find a church body as wonderful as my family here in Austin.

Also, my biggest need is financial support. Please pray for that to come in. As you know that New York is vastly more expensive than Austin, and I’ve had to nearly double the estimated budget. I’m working at raising $4000 in monthly support, and praise God, I’m just over 25% of the way there. Broken down, I just need 120 more people who could give $25 monthly, or whatever combination works. You can go to www.campusrenewal.org and click on donate in order to give. In the end, I know that God has called me; as we partner, we are all doing the work of the Lord.

Thank you so much for your continued prayers! As always, I do appreciate them.

Blessings to you!!