A Month In Pictures

The end of the school year has flown by, and I'm headed to Washington state for SICM with about 145 young leaders in just a couple of days! I didn't get pictures from all the events, but here are a few highlights!

Thank you for supporting this important work. I look forward to sharing with you some things I'm thinking about for the coming year over the summer.

Rez Fair

In the lead up to Easter, we had a big event on campus with all the other campus ministries to celebrate the resurrection. A few different bands performed live music and students shared their testimonies.

Each group could set up their own booth with activities and prizes to engage with students walking by.

I love this chance to celebrate Easter with such a diverse group! We want to show the campus that we are united by our love for Jesus and for them.

Some of the games are silly, like seeing who can hang the longest to get a prize.

Traveling

In April, I got to take a trip to Lake Havasu with three women from my staff team, my apprentice Paul, and one of the student leaders I mentor. It was a blast! And a much needed rest. I came back refreshed and ready for the end of the school year. Sarah didn't join because it was camping, and that's not really her thing! Ha!

I always love traveling with "Vacation Mandy."

This is the view from Hoover Dam. I loved the extra time with these two young leaders that I get to mentor this year. They are a blast!

Other Things

Back in November, we introduced the Scripture Smackdown, a challenge to our students to read more scripture, men versus women. Every week, except for the last three weeks, we announced an update of who was in the lead and the top readers that week. And EVERY WEEK the men were in the lead. So it was quite the surprise when the women won at the last minute in a surprise upset! Here they are posing with the belt, which was the prize for the contest.

Only the winners got to pose with the belt or even touch it. We did make an exception for a couple of guys who read the ENTIRE Bible since November! In all, 5 students read the whole Bible in 6 months as a part of the challenge.

We had our annual Parking Lot Graduation ceremony. It was my year to pose with the graduates. Here I am with my sweet friend Jasmine. You can see the rows of students they walked between in the background.

I've shared about them before, but Jacob, Kole, Felipe, and Paul are the four core leaders I met with weekly this year. They insisted on holding me for a picture.

Obligatory photo of me with my little buddy William, Peter's son.

Student Testimony & Prayer Requests

God continues to bring us people from all over the world to be a part of what he is doing here and to let us be a part of what he is doing in their lives!