Ruston, Louisiana

Greg, Angie, & Nicholas Pampell

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Apartado 1,Oficina IPOSTEL
Puerto Ayacucho, Estado Amazonas 7101
Venezuela

Our ministry has a new face. We have joined with Common Ground, an interdenominational worship service made of all the different Christian groups on campus. The weekly service has an average attendance of 900 students. We are very excited about this opportunity to share the freedom in the Holy Spirit that God has given us with so many Christians who have never experienced it.

Another new face is our prayer meeting. We have always had an awesome and intense prayer meeting on Thursday nights, but this year we have really experienced God as we explore non-traditional forms of worship and prayer. Among other things, we have a prayer journal for students to write in, and an easel and paints for them to express worship to God visually. It has been amazing to see what worship in these different forms looks like. These are just two of the six different stations we have for expressing our love and thanks to God. It has been amazing, and God has really shown up.

Another new face of XA is that we had about 20 freshmen at our freshman orientation. Many of those have gotten plugged in with us. Every year we say goodbye to some and we meet some new people to love. College students are transient, so every year when school starts, we miss the ones who have graduated. It is hard to imagine now, when I barely know these new people, that in about four years I'll be feeling these same things about them when they go.

We are so excited about the things God is doing and changing in and around us! We'll keep you posted on the developments.