SFU Surrey
Surrey is one of 3 SFU campuses. It covers a few thousand students where the majority of them are 1st and 2nd year. Even a few of our students (Don, Dan, & Lida) started off at Surrey before coming to the Burnaby Campus. Over this past year, we have been praying that God would open up a door into the Surrey Campus. We thought it would be this semester but as Don and I prayed about it more, we felt we needed to focus in Burnaby. Now though, there are a group of students who are passionate in starting a bible study in the Surrey campus. They have been holding weekly prayer meetings to discern who to reach and what to do and have invited me to be a part of those prayer meetings. I am REALLY excited about this opportunity and Lord willing, we can start it up as early as the Winter Semester.
The Typical Manuscript at Mark West
Mark West is 40 hours of manuscript study on half of the book of Mark in a period of 5 days. It is one of the most life giving experiences our students have encountered. Quite often, students experiences in studying the Gospel of Mark this intensely gives them a much deeper understanding of who Jesus really is. In short, they often say, "Jesus is now alive and real to me."
Last year, we had 450 students and staff engage in intensive Mark studies across Canada. 150 of those were at Mark West. Mark West has now split into 3 because we just have too many students wanting to study scripture (Praise The Lord!!). One of these three is Mark West Pacific specifically for BC Students. Last year, we had 40 go from BC. This year, after much prayer and contemplation, we feel that 85 is the new number for BC students to go to Mark West Pacific. Barron and I have already begun inviting students and we already have 5 students who have said "Yes" to going!
I am extremely excited and also terrified in how fast the ministry at SFU is growing. I hope you can all share in my excitement. If you would like to know more, please feel free to contact me =).
Wednesday's Small Group
Family Group @ Thanksgiving Camp
Hiroko & Brian - SFU Exchange Students
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