Last week on April 1st our small group (All Day) had a Krispy Kreme doughnuts fundraiser in Angell hall. We bought close to 600 doughnuts (or 50 dozen) and by the end of the day they were all sold. It was truly aamzing!

It's common knowledge that the girl scouts sell awesome cookies: samoas (except they have a new name now??), peanut butter sandwiches, and other sugary sweets. And though I try to remain faithful to the girls who have supplied me with the best cookies money can buy, there's been some competition. That's right, the freshmen class, affectionately called "Frontline", will be holding a bake sale to raise money for 40DTD THIS FRIDAY.

So resist the temptation to buy any sweets from other vendors! In fact, hold off from buying any sweets AT ALL until Friday. Consider Friday the day you can go wild and buy to your heart's content. Buy it for yourself, buy it for your friends, buy it for the fatty squirrels that aren't afraid of humans.

Bottom line: buy cookies! (and tell your friends too! btw, wouldn't it be great to share your experience with God and our church over a cookie with your friend?)

Where: the Black tables outside of Angell Hall Auditorium A

CLASS NIGHT: CALLING FRONTLINE, TEMPO, DIESEL & ROOTS!

This Friday after ACCESS we'll be having CLASS NIGHT for the undergraduate students. Class night is when students from each class gather together for fellowship, activities, and prayer. As we hit the last leg of the school year, our goal for this night is to provide the opportunity for students to get deeper with one another and reflect on God's goodness and faithfulness. So come out to ACCESS and stay for class night!

GLOBAL ACCESS RETREAT TESTIMONY

By the way, I lifted those pictures from Freddy Ng's Facebook photo album...

During this 40DTD campaign, it's been awesome reading scripture alongside the entire church, blogging about it (http://destinycampaign.blogspot.com/), and praying altogether on a daily basis to see where God is moving our church.

Something that has caught my eye are the undergrads. Emails are flying, ideas are brewing and change is appearing. Literally. The classes have recently launched a "Pennies War" to help raise money for the campaign. Word on the street is, Tempo (sophomores) is kicking major butt with a heavy carton of change. But then again, i saw some bills in the Roots (seniors) carton sooo...you never know.

Regardless, it's great seeing the entire church respond to God on so many different levels. From prayer to pennies, i'm constantly reminded that God cares about the "little things" just as much as the big. I can honestly say that the church's united effort has increased my excitement for what God has planned for us with each new day.

Last Tuesday night during University of Michigan's spring break, a group of 30+ HMCC members cleaned Crisler Arena to raise funds for our church's Destiny campaign. The group was diverse - ranging from undergrad freshmen to single adults, from Michiganders to international students. At least 6 different small groups were represented that night. Upon arrival to the stadium, our group grabbed some seats and caught the last few minutes of the men's basketball game. Northwestern vs. Michigan! Northwestern won 62-60...

Welcome back students! I noticed some of you returned to Ann Arbor with tans faces- I hope that your spring breaks were refreshing. The Global Access retreat the previous weekend (2/22-23) was amazing! Thanks for all who prayed and even served at the retreat. Hopefully we'll be able to post some pictures and testimonies sometime this week.

For me personally, the spring break was a good time to catch up with work, prepare for the LAST 1 1/2 MONTHS of the school year (which is also the end of our church's ministry cycle), and start thinking about spring-summer and beyond.

Dorm Storm? Didn't we have that 6 months ago? Did it even accomplish anything?

At the beginning of the school year we invaded the different dorms on campus holding various events (game nights, ice cream socials, etc) to reach out to the students on campus. Each night we met hundreds of people, gave out free slices of pizza, played wii until our arms fell off, scooped ice cream even after the ice cream sundaes turned into ice cream soup, and talked with A LOT of different people. At the end of each night I'd walk away feeling excited that the harvest was plentiful, but a bit uncertain, wondering if our efforts would amount to anything at all.

Whew...winter retreat, praise night, and now "The Game: The Rules of Sex and Relationships"! This past Friday at ACCESS, the campus ministries started this series to teach us how to be "PROS"...

"P" stands for the PLAYERS: Part of God's purpose in creating us was for men and women to be in passionate marriage relationships.

"R" stands for the RULES: The boundaries for sex and relationships should follow these general principles. First, we need to abstain from sexual immorality. Second, we need to abide in holiness. Third, we ought to aspire to honor God. The ABC's of such God-honoring relationships are: accountability, boundaries, and community.

This upcoming week the second part will cover the "O" (objectives) and "S" (scoreboard). So for those who are on campus, we enthusiastically want to invite you come out to ACCESS this Friday night.

STARTING THIS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8!

I've felt a strong need to have a series like this for ACCESS because there's such a strong culture of sensuality as well as gross inaccuracies regarding sexuality on college campuses. I learned about sex in my 5th grade sex-ed class, in the locker rooms, and through the TV shows and movies that I watched. Too often I see believers in Jesus "Christianize" their secular concepts of sex, dating, and marriage with a smattering of random Biblical wisdom. The results are a lot of broken hearts, physical and emotional baggage, and disillusionment towards God and others.