This semester our main focus for our students as well as the interns is on missional communities, meaning, finding a group of people on campus that we are somewhat involved in or interested in them, and then intentionally hang out with them. If you are wondering what the purpose of this is, well than I will tell you. At NMSU there are 19,000 students, roughly, and about 400 of those are Christians that are involved in some type of fellowship (church or college ministry). Each year each college ministry (RUF, AFC, Cru, BSU, etc...all of them) fight over those 400 people...which is only 2% of our college population. We really want to reach out, get to know, and do life with that 98%. So by immersing ourselves in the community that is already going on around us, gaining their trust and then being intentional with them by starting up a Bible Study or a weekly forum to talk about spiritual things, we will reach that 98%.
It is a little unprecedented, and a little unscripted since we haven't really done this before, but we are excited and fully faithful that this is where God is calling us. So we have students who are going to be missional in the: drama and theatre department, graphic design department, fraternity and sorority, the Stonewall Coalition (Queer and Straight Alliance), international students, and the CA/RA departments in the dorms. We are giving the missional community leaders a little bit of spending money each month that they can use to spend time with people within their community, to plan a get together, etc... We are so excited to see how God is going to move! Could you please keep our students in your prayers?
