Tuesdays 7:00 PM Lund 21!
For the past month our weekly CCN meeting has had 5 total people show up! This is the highest showing of people since my Sophomore year. We are currently learning about Evolution and tonight at 6:15 PM we are going out witnessing at the Student Center. Come if you can! Here's a pic of the group

Talent Show Preaching

This was Homecoming weekend at Midland Lutheran College and so they had several events going on throughout the week. Yesterday night they had several events that included, Crowning of the King and Queen, Talent Show, Prep Rally etc. It was a packed house of around 400 people. I was in the Talent Show and my "talent" was to have the Bible make sense in a few minutes. God gave me the oppurtunity to preach the Gospel to those 400 people. God opened the door and many people heard about Jesus Christ and here is the video.

Cafeteria Outreach Today!

Today was our cafeteria outreach and we took a long someone, Alphonso Cooper but likes to go by Coop. Pray for him, he talked to me and said God has been nudging him to witness and is afraid. Today I took him to the cafeteria and we sat outside and I showed him the ropes, passed out some tracts and witnessed to a man. Here is a pick of Ben and Coop before we left.

Praise Report

On September 9th, 2008 Ben and myself had a prayer meeting in my room. At first I could not feel the presence of God and I continued to pray for His Holy Spirit to come upon me and I prayed and prayed and then He sent it. It was powerful and then the Holy Spirit spoke to me pretty directly and said I am going to give you a vision and I am going to give Ben the same vision. So I spoke forth thanking God for this vision and in Faith believing the vision would come to the both of us. So here is the vision both Ben and I saw for this campus.

See in the middle of Midland Lutheran College is a huge cross in the middle of a water fall. The symbol of a Cross in of itself is not Holy or anything and from my vision the cross represented the darkness on campus and all the idolatry taking place. Then all of a sudden I saw Gods foot come from Heaven and smashed the cross to nothing. Then from the rubble a huge rock came froth and towered above everything and a new Cross sprouted from atop this rock. It represented truth, light, it replaced that false Cross and it also represented Christ's reign on campus, no more darkness. Then I saw fruit rolling down this mountain and when it got to the bottom they started to turn into Godly men and woman, they began to preach the Gospel and people got saved left and fright, teachers, staff, and even the President of the campus. After this I asked Ben what he saw and this is what he saw.

Ben saw a tiny light(glow) in the middle of the cross where the crossbeam is. It represented a tiny remnant there, a little truth on campus still remained. Then the whole cross crumbled to the ground and just like in my vision a hug rock sprouted forth towering over everything. Then that tiny light went to the top of that mountain. Then it started to expand and expand until it exploded onto the whole campus, the whole campus was covered with this light and with fire. A revival took place.

As Ben and myself talked about this we were amazed, we don't know when this will happen, maybe when we are still here maybe not. I do know that this vision will come true and I praise God for that!

Prayer Request

My heart is for Midland Lutheran College. Monday is our first meeting with CCN being an official ministry on campus. Please pray for students to show, pray for laborers and pray for my brokenness for this campus.

The start of a new year! 2008-2009

A new school year has started and CCN is officially an organization at Midland Lutheran College. Today was the student involvement fair and had many people check us out.



Here are the meeting times for this upcoming year.

Main Meeting: Mondays 9:00-10:00 PM Lund 21

Apologetics/Evangelism Tuesdays 9:00-10:00 PM Lund 21

Prayer Meeting Thursdays 7:00-8:00 PM

The Spiritual struggle was very real tonight, pray for boldness for the team and laborers. Pray that the Lord of Glory will claim His place at MLC.

God Bless you all
-Luke

It has been a very blessed year at Midland Lutheran College. Never before have I seen so much opposition here nor have I ever experienced such spiritual warfare. So I am going to use this weblog to recap everything that God did at MLC.

Since coming to MLC the Holy Spirit revealed to me that I was to be the one that started something here, exactly what that was was unknown to me until the end of the 2007-2008 School Year. I am a Junior now going into my Senior Year and I can see God working here at MLC.

So I started my Junior year at MLC as the Co-President of Campus Crusade for Christ. I was very excited to see what God was going to do through CCC. There were many girls who attended CCC but very few guys. In Fact, my roommate Ben Steven's was my only faithful laborer for most of year. He has been with me since day one and has labored with me through it all. Here is a picture of Ben:

I would be running weekly Bible studies and large group meetings once a week. I was also a Campus leader for Change Collegian Network
I had been a local leader for CCN since last year and it was an organization that teachers college students to share their faith Biblically the way Jesus did. So I tried to incorporate both CCC & CCN throughout the year. I would host meetings in which I would go over evangelism and the need to preach the gospel on campus. Only my roomate Ben Stevens was on board with me. The girls of CCC would attend the meeting but wouldn't join Ben and I on our weekly out reaches to the students. I always felt like I had to hold it back because I didn't want to cause division. CCC's vision did not align with my vision and it was only a matter of time before something had to give. As the first couple of weeks of school went on the Holy spirit once again called me to Open Air Preach in the Cafeteria. I didn't want to but I had to obey God. Here is that video:

I did not get a good response as expected, I did the same thing last year after the Virgina Tech Massacre. As the year went on I tried and tried to teach others about Evangelism and how we are all called to do it. Ben and myself continued to go to the cafeteria almost weekly and tell the students about Jesus Christ and how they need to repent of their sins and surrender to the Living God. Here is an audio that I recorded in the cafeteria with several girls.

The year went on and the only guy to attend my Bible studies were my roomate Ben. That was ok with me, we learned a lot and even would pray every morning for a long time for this campus. However, as the year went on I felt the tension more and more with CCC. They would send out Regional CCC leaders to check up on us and I could tell they did not like what I was doing. My vision for this campus did not align with their campus and that is ok with me. Sometimes you just need to part ways. After awhile I just kind of gave up on the CCC woman leaders on campus when it came to evangelism and Ben and myself just concentrated on going out on our own. In December right before Christmas break we bought 300 tracts :
What we did was stand outside of the Cafeteria and hand them to people as they walked in, Ben handed the people the tracts and I stood outside with a big wooden cross:
We handed out nearly all of them and so it went really well. However at this point CCC did no longer want me as President. One of the leaders told me that they wanted me to step down and was going to let others take control. I was hurt at first but realized that it was Gods plan. I felt so free, I could finally not hold back and just follow Gods will on campus. At this point mostly everyone on campus knew who I am, most did not like what I did, it is a very liberal college.

So the new semester started off like any other. I would witness to friends and people around me whenever I got the chance, Ben and myself would leave various tracts around campus praying that someone would get saved. I have talked to Ben about this several times but there is just something so different about this campus, it is so dark and sometimes I could feel so very well the spiritual battle on campus; so much opposition. I have open aired twice at the cafeteria and both times I literally felt attacked afterwords, I have never felt such opposition.

As semester went on Tiffany Gelpi who is the founder of CCN told me I should try and get CCN recognized as an organization on campus, so I started to get that underway. In the mean time In march God put it on my heart to record a message for the students at MLC and send it to everyones email. So I did and here is that video:


I received many negative feedbacks, some saying I made the Savior sound hateful and others telling me I was going to hell for judging. You can read all the responses in a earlier post. After posting the Video I told Ben that something was going to happen, I had a weird feeling in my stomach about it,the enemy really did not want that video going out. I then had someone I knew very well scold me for the video, he tore into me pretty hard and it hurt a lot. But God is so great and He comforted me in my time of distress.

Then God sent forth another laborer, his name is Tim and he has a been a real blessing. He is a freshmen and while he wont be back here next year he was a real inspiration to Ben and myself. He was a true Born again Believer and labored with us. Our next step to reach this campus was that we bought 500 chick tracts : We then hung them up on all the dorms on campus with our contact infor on them. Here are some pictures of this experience.
On our last night of doing this we covered two full dorms, Ben and myself then went to go visit a friend for about an hour and when we went back to our room this is what we found in front of our door:


It wasn't really a shock to see this, what it did show me was how dark this campus is and how the enemy is scared. I have felt so much loneliness on this campus, felt like this whole place was against me, but that is what we are called to do something. It is a lonely road sometimes to stand up for the Lord, we no longer belong to the world so the world will no longer accept us. James 4:4. The next day CCN was accepted as an organization on campus, God is truly starting to work on this campus more and more and I belive CCN was that very thing God wanted me to start on this campus. So next year I will be president of CCN and Ben will be Co-president. To end the Year my Pastor Jim Bates of Victory Christian Fellow Ship
& Jim Richardson came to campus with big signs, it gave the students another chance to Repent of their sins and Turn to Jesus. Many people saw them and had a few people talk to them. Here it is:
Looking back at the 2007-2008 year I can say that all the students at MLC heard the gospel, they heard it in so many ways. While I can't say I have seen much fruit God got all the glory. Praise our Lord Jesus Christ!