Praise God! We’re Seeing Results.

In last month’s CSF Partner letter I told you about our plans to expand our main weekly student meetings to two nights. We now have a Wednesday Together Group and a Thursday Together Group and the results have been exciting to me. Brad Dewing, campus minister, leads the Wednesday Together Group and Rebecca Lehmer, associate campus minister, leads the Thursday Together Group. We’re seeing overall increased attendance, more student ownership, more student leader development, new students every week, and more responses to Christ. It is my desire to expand Together Groups even more by the Fall semester by 1) increasing the size of our CSF Center meeting room so more students can come; and 2) adding at least one more Together Group meeting time. We’ll see how God leads and provides.

An Open Door to Advance the Gospel?
I recently learned that the Lutheran Campus Ministry Building (located on the St. Paul Campus just a block north of the CSF Center) will be going up for sale very soon. This is an incredible building with an incredible location. I sincerely hope that a Christian ministry (perhaps even CSF?) will be able to purchase the property because it would be a wonderful tool for Christian ministry. We’re praying and waiting on God to provide and show us what to do on this, not wanting it to distract us from the important work we’re already doing. We are also trying to spread the word to everyone else we know doing Christian ministry on our campus. Please join us in prayer about this, asking God to provide this building as tool for some Christian ministry on our campus!

More Ministry Blessings
Dennis Barnett and his wife Mary Ann continue to help CSF improve our outreach to international students. They’re doing a great job and we’re so glad to have their help with Let’s Talk welcome dinners, evangelism, friendship building, and discipleship with these precious students from around the world. Evensong Worship on Sundays has been going great! We’re filling the MN Commons room in the St. Paul Student Center and so we’re already looking for a new location that will allow for a larger attendance. Our upcoming Spring Break Missions Trip to the Gulf Coast is really coming together. Rebecca Lehmer tells me a large number of students (and even some of their parents) have committed to going this Christian service trip. Another team of students is preparing for three weeks of Mission Work in Romania in the summer of 2006 with FCGI (For God’s Children International). Thanks for your faithful support and prayers that make our ministry possible.

Yours in the Cause of Christ,
Dave Burkum


Students singing at a recent Wednesday Together Group at the CSF Center.