Christian Union News

Faithful in the Little Things; Your Gift to Freshman Outreach Matched Today — Up to $25,000; Please Join Us in a 21 Day Fast; Solzhenitsyn's Prophecy; Go Forward in What God is Calling You to Do in Life and more, in this issue of Christian Union's bi-monthly email brief.
 

“I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.”
— Nehemiah 1:4

 

Faithful in the Little Things

By Fady Ghobrial
From Harvard College Faith and Action 

The story of Anah discovering the hot springs in Genesis is probably one you didn’t hear as a kid. However, this seemingly insignificant character demonstrates what faithfulness in the little things looks like, why it is important to our life and calling, and how God rewards it. Watch Now >

Your Gift to Freshman Outreach Matched Today — Up to $25,000 

From Christian Union

The first few weeks of college may set a student's spiritual trajectory. A financial partner's generous $25,000 gift will match your gift today, dollar-for-dollar, to help reach newly arrived freshmen at each campus this fall with the Gospel. Preparations for this massive, multi-week effort are underway. Ministry faculty and upperclassmen will spend thousands of hours collectively, praying for students by name, putting on 150+ outreach events, meeting with freshmen, and, God willing, engaging hundreds in a Bible course and Christian community. Will you help? Please give today >

Please Join Us in a 21-Day Fast

 From Christian Union Day & Night

In the verse at the top of this eNewsletter , we see Nehemiah’s response to hearing that the remnant of Jews in Judah were in distress, and that the walls of Jerusalem were broken down. When we look at America today, we see a deep and devastating spiritual brokenness that is reflected in our larger culture. Christian Union Day and Night invites you to join us on a 21-day fast. As we fast, we will be praying specifically that God will bring about profound spiritual transformation in individual lives and in seven important sectors of our society: Arts & Entertainment, Business, Education, Family, Government, Media, and the Church. Will you join us in this fast, starting Monday, August 13? Please feel free to participate at whatever level the Lord calls you. If you sign up, you will receive a special emailed devotion each morning of the fast. Learn more or sign up at dayandnight.org >

Solzhenitsyn's Prophecy

By Robert P. George
From First Things

Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, delivered these brilliant remarks this spring, reflecting on a speech in 1978 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a 'severe critique—one might even say a prophetic rebuke—and warning' to the West. On June 8, 1978, a man with a craggy face and a beard came to Harvard University, where I was then a graduate student, to give the annual commencement address. The man was not a Harvard graduate. He was not a professor. He was not an American. He did not speak English. His address, given in his native Russian... Read more >

Go Forward in What God is Calling You to Do in Life

By Ronnie Floyd
From Fox News

Thank you to a Christian Union ministry partner who alerted us to this article. In the early 1900s, 16-year-old William Whiting Borden graduated from The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania – a prestigious boarding school known for sending its alumni to Princeton University. He was an heir to the Borden family mining fortune, and had a clear path to wealth and success set before him. But before Borden began his Ivy League education at Yale University, his parents sent... Read more >

Prayer Requests

UNIVERSITY MINISTRIES
Please pray for the planning and preparation for the freshman welcoming project mentioned above, and for God to supernaturally open and prepare the hearts of the students who are soon to begin their college careers.

CITY MINISTRIES
Following our recent forum, "Mission to the City: Engaging through Volunteering", held in New York City, on engaging the needs of the city please pray for each attendee to consider and act on volunteering with one of the myriad organizations committed to meeting the needs of people in this city. We are called to seek and save the lost, and to care for the orphan and widow. Please pray that these will be woven together in our lives.

DAY & NIGHT
Please pray for 21 Days of Fasting for Cultural Revolution, August 13-September 2. Christian Union Day and Night invites all Christians in America to join us in praying and fasting for the Holy Spirit’s world-changing power to sweep across our nation and touch every facet of our country so that Christ is honored and people are blessed in His name. Please join us as God leads you and pray for many others to do the same.

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