April 2025

Dear CU Lumine Cornerstone Partners and friends of the ministry,

Grace and peace from New York City.

As our students return from spring break, please continue to pray for Columbia University and Barnard College. During the past couple of weeks, we’ve had protests taking place on and around campus. Our students are becoming weary and overwhelmed at times, as you can imagine. However, they believe God is stirring the hearts of their peers and see this as a great opportunity to share the gospel with those who are struggling during these difficult times.

We recently hosted two great evangelism events: we invited well-known apologist Cliffe Knechtle and his two sons, Stuart and Robert, here. It went great! Please pray there will be a harvest of souls from the seeds that were planted from this two-day event. Secondly, during our weekly Thursday night Illumine meeting on campus, we had Christian Union's VP of Development, Marcus Buckley, here to speak. We wanted to capitalize on the momentum from the CU Classic outreach event to minister to more students in the evening. It was a success.

 
Our Bible courses are well-attended, and the students are being encouraged and challenged to spend more time studying the word. Please continue to pray that they would be intentional in investing in their relationship with Christ. They have also been coming out to our daily morning prayer meetings at 8am on campus as well as the Tuesday evening SEEK prayer meetings we hold on campus at 8pm.

Thank you once again for all your support. It’s because of your generosity that we are able to have an impact for God's kingdom in tangible ways at Columbia University.