Tomorrow we have our first day on campus with the students. This week our focus is being good listeners, asking good questions, and exploring well as we do Soularium with college students all over Manhattan. With our understanding that everyone is somewhere on their spiritual journey, either moving towards or away from God, our desire is that the students learn how, in the power and prompting of the Holy Spirit, to connect these individuals stories and struggles with God's epic narrative of creation, brokenness and rebellion, redemption, transformation, and ultimate hope. Pray for us to take steps of faith and to see college student's lives changed this summer.

The students are in the middle of creating their pitches for our collaborative art installation exploring the topics of death, resurrection, and the new earth. We're excited about being able to present our experiences with a holistic Gospel including our own explorations of what it means to be changed by Christ, and to one day be raised back to life and experience a new earth of which we just see a shadow now.

One of our student's grandfathers died yesterday unexpectedly. Please pray for her and the rest of her family and she grieves and figures out plans to return home for the memorial services. Pray for us as a community to grieve with her and to be able to encourage and love on her.

I've posted a few pictures below of our last few days. I hope it shows you just how awesome the community God has brought together truly is!

Thanks so much!

Bonnie, AKA Bonisha

Students performing their "getting to know you" collaborative sketches

On the top of Rockefeller Center with Amy,

one of the staff girls I'm mentoring.