Hey, it’s Rusty here! 

I want to personally thank you all for being such a blessing and lifting us up as we seek to do God’s work here at UD and beyond as we focus on planting more campus missions around the world. Our normal mission efforts have been flipped on their head due to Covid-19, but this does not mean that the Church’s calling stopped or that God is no longer at work. Instead, it means “the peace of God which surpasses all understanding” is needed more and more as the stress, anxiety, and social tension continues to grow.

We are called to be those that bear that Peace and Light as It shines in the world. How are we being vessels of “the peace of God which surpasses all understanding” to calm and guard the hearts of ourselves and those around us? Earlier in September I was on a prayer walk with James and Allie Goodpasture at the University of Arkansas Little Rock. We are working together to get a campus mission planted in Little Rock. When we asked a small group of students, “WHAT can we be praying for?” one of the ladies started breaking down as she thought of what she needed. The anxiety and stress these students feel is high and as we pray with and for them, they have opportunities to experience this peace, and to slowly start seeing God at work on and around them.

While at Oklahoma Christian, I had an opportunity to prayer walk with Alec and Kelsey from the state of Washington. They are two non-bible major freshman with hearts for God and being more intentional in living out their faith. It is exciting to see how God is working in their lives as we started a new “Intentionality Group” with them and a couple from Alabama who is seeing if campus missions is right for them.

But my heart yearns as I prayer walk UD. It makes me sad to run into a handful of students this semester as only 5% are back on camps and less than that in the class rooms. But God is still at work as we continue to connect with many new students and use Instagram with proper #Hashtags as an amazing outreach tool. We continue to share the peace of God that surpasses all understanding with this young generation full of anxiety and stress over their futures. As I prayer walk, I post a few prayers on Instagram with targeted hashtags and have made many new connections at UD because of that. God is still at work answering prayers, providing peace, and humbling his messengers.

You see the power is really not in prayer or prayer walking; the power,
the peace is in how God answers our prayers.

Prayer Requests:

• James and Allie Goodpasture – as they continue to invest into a few in Little Rock
• Alec and Kelsey – as they grow with being more intentional in living their faith
• Rusty Jordan – to hand over my stressors to God so I can fully experience the peace that surpasses all understanding