The long vacation
The summer is (naturally) a quite time in the OICCU's public affairs. An Oxford student has no less than 15 weeks summer holiday. However I would like to think it is a very busy time in other respects. There are countless students engaged in overseas Christian mission, summer camps, beach missions and local church activities. In our last central meeting, we had a wonderful Powerpoint presentation in which a red dot appeared on a world map for each student travelling to that area. Please pray for us all as we give ourselves to God's service, that He would use us to accomplish his works. Pray that our trust would be firmly in Jesus, and that we'd all seek to share Him in whatever we're doing.
I'll post some details about what we're planning for next term in September..once it has been finalised. In short we've decided to meet together more often, and are keen on developing an evanglism plan that will lead us into the Mission in February. Pray for wisdom and boldness as we make these decisions.
In the meantime, I leave you with the OICCU Summer prayer diary. The challenge to keep praying is there for us all, I invite the reader to join with us.
Sunday - Freshers. Ask that God would strengthen those who are Christians as they leave their home fellowships to come up and that they would catch the vision of OICCU. For those who are not yet Christians that God would be at work in their hearts and minds so that they will be keen to learn more of Him.
Monday - Events. Remember the events happening in college during Freshers’ Week and the Freshers’ Dinner. Pray for financial provision for these events.
Tuesday - Mission Teams. Pray for all our members serving God on teams at home and around the world in particular please pray for the OICCU team heading to the Philippines.
Wednesday - Central Meetings. Please pray that God would use the new organisation of Central Meetings on Wednesdays to His greater glory through making us more effective as a united witnessing community.
Thursday - Weekly Events. Please remember the organisation of the weekly events. Especially pray for God’s provision in the organisation of Big Issues.
Friday - Each other. Pray that God would be keeping us close to Himself this summer and that in His will we will return to Oxford safely and also fired up to serve Him in Oxford.
Saturday - The Mission. Pray God’s blessing on the planning and organisation of the Mission. It may seem a long way off but we need to seek God’s will and blessing as we look forward to it.
"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen." (Eph 3:20-21)
I'll post some details about what we're planning for next term in September..once it has been finalised. In short we've decided to meet together more often, and are keen on developing an evanglism plan that will lead us into the Mission in February. Pray for wisdom and boldness as we make these decisions.
In the meantime, I leave you with the OICCU Summer prayer diary. The challenge to keep praying is there for us all, I invite the reader to join with us.
Sunday - Freshers. Ask that God would strengthen those who are Christians as they leave their home fellowships to come up and that they would catch the vision of OICCU. For those who are not yet Christians that God would be at work in their hearts and minds so that they will be keen to learn more of Him.
Monday - Events. Remember the events happening in college during Freshers’ Week and the Freshers’ Dinner. Pray for financial provision for these events.
Tuesday - Mission Teams. Pray for all our members serving God on teams at home and around the world in particular please pray for the OICCU team heading to the Philippines.
Wednesday - Central Meetings. Please pray that God would use the new organisation of Central Meetings on Wednesdays to His greater glory through making us more effective as a united witnessing community.
Thursday - Weekly Events. Please remember the organisation of the weekly events. Especially pray for God’s provision in the organisation of Big Issues.
Friday - Each other. Pray that God would be keeping us close to Himself this summer and that in His will we will return to Oxford safely and also fired up to serve Him in Oxford.
Saturday - The Mission. Pray God’s blessing on the planning and organisation of the Mission. It may seem a long way off but we need to seek God’s will and blessing as we look forward to it.
"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen." (Eph 3:20-21)
posted by Greg Tarr at 5:07 pm
2 Comments:
I'm a fresher (also international). So please explain 'The Mission' in February?? And the iWelcome was great. I was really glad to meet Christians early on!
Erm..this blog is actually a year old, and I should really close it down. But there still will be a mission in February and that's when the OICCU runs several events to reach the university for Christ.
Glad you enjoyed iWelcome!
Greg
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