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In November, we wrote to you about IUPUI, one of the schools that we have been working with this year and how the Lord has done some amazing things on that campus.

IUPUI is the 3rd largest school in the state of Indiana, and is primarily composed of commuter students, making it a very difficult campus to reach with the Gospel. Very few students stay after class and there is very little community on this campus, so having weekly meetings and Bible studies are a challenge, let alone getting students to come to a campus-wide event.

At the beginning of the semester in August, we started the year off with no returning students and one staff member (Rachel). As the semester progressed, students started showing up to our weekly Bible study and we attained 4 volunteers and 3 more staff, and 8 students attended Fall Retreat in October. We were amazed at how the Lord was working to bring students to grow closer to Him and to reach their campus with the Gospel.

Since the beginning of this semester in January, our attendance went from 12 students, with only 1 guy, to 25 students, including 6 guys! These new students just showed up one night, by invitation from their friends, and have been coming faithfully ever since.

Two students, Adella and Sarah, are in New Zealand for Spring Break, returning on March 15th, and there is a couple more in Panama City with Crusade for the big outreach there. Adella also has just been approved to travel to East Asia for the summer and Melanie, a graduating senior, is applying for an internship to work with ethnic students on our campuses.

Recently, the students and staff have been working very hard towards an outreach scheduled for March 4th at 1pm. Andre Kole, a world-renown illusionist that is under the umbrella of Campus Crusade, gave a performance at IUPUI in the new student center. After he performs some phenomenal illusions, he shares the Gospel through his amazing talent.

These students have been posting flyers all over the huge campus, inviting all their friends, and selling tickets to their classmates in preparation for this event. They have been gathering to pray and to encourage one other in this tough endeavor. At the outreach, they saw 55 people attend (11x the attendance of the last outreach!) and 12 people indicated decisions for Christ, with 9 more that wanted to talk more about having a personal relationship with Christ.

Last spring, as we watched this ministry fade into nothing, we never would have dreamed that such things would be happening on this campus. It truly is a miracle of the Lord’s doing that students are gathering faithfully to study the Bible, to pray for the lost, and to seek out ways in which they can bring the Gospel to their fellow students. It has been the highlight of Rachel’s school year and her favorite part of the week. As she gets closer to starting her maternity leave, it is getting harder for her to say a temporary good-bye to these students. Our hope is to transition into parenthood smoothly, so she can return to investing her time into these precious students as soon as possible.

Thank you for your prayers for this campus the Lord has definitely been answering them!

Please Pray

> Pray that spring break trips will increase the students hearts for the lost.

> That good discussions and life change will occur as a result of the Andre Kole Outreach.

> Preparation for parenthood and safe delivery of the baby.