First prayer request this time: God is Awesome. We could all do with remembering that and praising him for it more often.

Over spring break last week, a group of 10 students from our chapter were able to go on a missions trip to St. Louis. They did various things to help out people living there, including spending a lot of time with widows. In addition to praise for that trip, pray that it would have a lasting impact on everyone who went and those they worked with.

Please continue to pray for the Rose-Hulman chapter's leadership next year. Leadership applications have been collected and interviews will be conducted next week as the leadership team works to select new leaders. Pray for wisdom for the leadership team and for God's will to be done, and also that God would give those who will be leaders in the chapter next year energy and passion and assistance in fulfilling their responsibilities.

I believe all our chapters could also use prayer for the members (and especially the seniors) to finish strong and continue to reach out to others, instead of looking forward to the end of the year and loosing motivation. Be praying as well for the freshmen and transfer students who will be starting in the fall; that there would be many ministry leaders among them, that the Christians among them would continue to grow in their faith, and that the non-Christians would be open to learning more about God. 

Brothers and Sisters in Christ, 

Hey! I hope all is well at ISU and Depauw! God is certainly working here at Rose-Hulman. There is so much we could share, however I am sure many of you have only heard bits and pieces about our Chapter, so I thought it might be appropriate to give you a brief background on Intervarsity here at Rose-Hulman. 

Today our chapter is comprised of over 100 active members. Our Large Groups, held Thursdays at 7 P.M., attract roughly 50 to 60 students. We also have multiple residential Small Groups here on campus, one for each residence hall. Our presence in the Greek system is an area we are still building. At the moment there are two or three Small Groups scattered throughout our fraternities and sororities, however there is potential for so many more! Driving all of this is our Leadership Team. This year we have a total of six members on our team filling the following roles: Overseer, Ministry Coordinator, Discipleship Coordinator, Outreach Coordinator, Large Group Coordinator and Greek Coordinator. While most of these roles are self explanatory, Discipleship Coordinator is a new role, through which we hope to set the stage for seniors to mentor and disciple underclassmen. 

At this point I am sure you are all wondering how our year has started! For the first month and a half all our energies were focused on New Student Outreach (NSO), which officially wrapped up with Fall Conference. Overall this was a major success! An extremely important aspect of NSO was the follow-up that had to occur, which I am pleased to say our chapter excelled at! Also, as a chapter we've spent time discussing what our vision is for the year. Spurring from Intervarsity's vision statement, we've agreed to devote ourselves to "Students and Faculty Transformed, Campuses Renewed, World Changers Developed". 

We've also begun to gear up for Urbana. Currently we have 17 students registered and hope to gather over 30 students for this life-changing conference. As one of our final activities for NSO, we washed cars at our local community church to raise funds for our students who can't make it to Urbana due to financial concerns. God was at work that day; we raised over 700 dollars! The work is not over however, so please pray for our continued efforts in this area. There is so much potential for God to work through this conference and we want each of our students to be a part of this experience! 

Looking into the future, there are several things that we could use prayer for. As this quarter begins to wrap up, I have noticed the energy level in our chapter slowly dwindle, especially for the Leadership Team. Please pray for perseverance and the ability for all of us to finish this quarter strong, never loosing the passion we hold for Christ! We also have a 24-hour prayer event coming up; pray that God could use this as an opportunity to speak to us on an individual and corporate level. Finally, we'd appreciate prayer for our Greek Ministry! As I mentioned above, this is a ministry that we've begun to tap into, yet there is so much more work to be done! We've already started to build relations with many of the fraternities, but there are many that we still do not have a relationship with.