Maverick Stampede (Welcome Week)

Last month I got to write about how excited I was to get to go with our students to the Student Institute of Campus Ministry. Pictured above are 200 college students learning about why their peers need Jesus and how they can partner with God to reach their campus. SICM was such a neat experience and I loved getting to hear what our students were taking away from the week. But much of what we do during SICM is to prepare our students for the real ministry they will be taking part in during welcome week or as its lovingly called at UTA, Maverick Stampede.

During Maverick Stampede our campus missionaries and our student leaders go on to campus with the goal of inviting others into Christ centered community. We help with move in, we attend all of the universities events and we even host some of our own. You can see in the second picture, one of our UTA apprentices, Graham, exchanging phones with a new student. Those shared contacts often lead to these students joining cores, and studying the bible one on one. Maverick stampede is spread over the period of two weeks so among all the student leaders its not uncommon for us to have met several hundreds students by the time Maverick Stampede is over.

And lastly are just some pictures of some guys that I've gotten to invest in over the last several years. Some of them are students that will be a part of our leader team that I will be getting to mentor and disciple over the next year. Some are graduated UTA Alumni who are continuing on into college ministry as a vocation, and others are new Christians who are still learning to walk with Jesus but who are catching a vision for a life lived for him as they experience this community in college. I'm so grateful for the opportunity to spend time with each one of them and I can't thank you enough for your investment in college ministry. Your gift is making such a huge impact. In Christ, Austin.

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