Merry Christmas from the Lacasses

"Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel."

Isaiah 7:14

Let us today go down to Bethlehem, and in company with wondering shepherds and adoring Magi, let us see him who was born King of the Jews, for we by faith can claim an interest in him, and can sing, "Unto us a child is born,unto us a son is given." Jesus is Jehovah incarnate, our Lord and our God, and yet our brother and friend; let us adore and admire. Let us notice at the very first glance his miraculous conception. It was a thing unheard of before, and unparalleled since, that a virgin should conceive and bear a Son. The first promise ran thus, "The seed of the woman," not the offspring of the man. Since venturous woman led the way in the sin which brought forth Paradise lost, she, and she alone, ushers in the Regainer of Paradise. Our Saviour, although truly man, was as to his human nature the Holy One of God. Let us reverently bow before the holy Child whose innocence restores to manhood its ancient glory; and let us pray that he may be formed in us, the hope of glory. Fail not to note his humble parentage. His mother has been described simply as "a virgin," not a princess, or prophetess, nor a matron of large estate. True the blood of kings ran in her veins; nor was her mind a weak and untaught one, for she could sing most sweetly a song of praise; but yet how humble her position, how poor the man to whom she stood affianced, and how miserable the accommodation afforded to the new-born King!

Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and Second Advent splendour.

-Charles Spurgeon

Pioneer Project Leads to Action

Camosun students are in transit to their commuter college.

After recently finishing my Pioneer Project, I have felt the desire to get something started at Camosun College. I'm quite busy with campus ministry at UVic (and that's an understatement) but I can definitely take time to coach some Camosun students on how they can reach their campus for Christ.

I Facebook messaged 3 students who currently go to Camosun and asked if they were interested in establishing a community in Christ on their campus. One of the students suggested they start with a coffee club in the cafeteria to start discussion and fellowship.

My hope is to cheer them on as they start this coffee club and coach them to start-up as an official Camosun club (which would make it the only Christian/spiritual club on campus)!

• Pray for the establishment of a Christian club at Camosun and for these 3 students to become beacons of light on their campus. 

Mustaches, Cookies, and Faith

"Hi, would you like a free baked-good and vote for our movember contest? We're a Christian club on campus and we want to be a blessing to students during exams".

This opening statement would often lead to numerous discussions about faith, hope, and love.

Ross (above), a new student at UVic, took the reigns of organizing an idea he had for a Sunago Movember fundraising contest.

Pray for the students we connected and shared our Hope with.
Pray for the students from our group to have many divinely appointed opportunities to share their faith during exams and Christmas break.

Free cookies, coffee, and prayer

Please pray for us friday afternoon, as we share God love and message of reconciliation as we offer free cookies, coffee and prayer.

We've done this a couple times before and have had many great conversations and opportunities to share our faith in Jesus.

Pray as we stand outside that the weather would be just right.
Pray for God to give us boldness by his Spirit.
Pray for students to receive the grace of God through Jesus Christ.

Manchurch Baking Night

Men baking cookies to give to students to share the love and Good News about Christ.

Pray for Quinn

My heart goes out to Quinn. God reveal yourself to him!
Please pray with me for Quinn to have an encounter with God and receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour.

My healed hamstring has been a conversation starter about prayer and our God who heals.
I got to share my faith with Quinn, the club's president, as he's been recovering from a thigh injury. We started discussing motivation in life, purpose, and the things of this world that don't satisfy. I got to share about God's heart for him and I got to pray with him. I really want to continue to pray for God's hand in his life, for him to have a life-changing encounter with God.

Quinn (left)

Please pray that God would heal Quinn, reveal Himself to him;
That Quinn's eyes would be miraculously opened to the glory of God in Christ;
That Quinn's heart would be changed by the Great Physician;
That Quinn's life would be radically changed by the overwhelming power of the Holy Spirit;
Please pray for me to have more opportunities to share the Good News of Christ with Quinn and the other rugby players at UVic.

Morning Prayer: A Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-oSbfYUC4o

Every monday and friday mornings a group of ~7 students gather to pray for their campus and praise their God. This is one of my favorite times of the week.

Perfect Timing

Karthik came into the room at the perfect time to hear God's promise to him. We gave out cards with God's promises to students within our residence discovery group and Karthik came in at the very end of the study. But it was just in time for him to read-out this promise from the Bible which, he said, resonated with him strongly.

Please pray for Karthik as he strives to be a surgeon and as he discovers, along with the group, who Jesus is and how to follow him.

Healed Hamstring and Ready to Represent Christ

On friday I pulled my hamstring during the first 5 minutes of touch rugby with the club I've joined. 

I was anticipating to play in the tournament the following Wednesday, and the team said they needed me.

I rested and asked for healing on Sunday. By Wednesday afternoon I was ready enough for the tournament, but praying through every game for strength and a chance to witness. By the end of the tournament, my hamstring was intact, our team won the gold, and I got to share with a girl about my God who listens to our prayers and heals our infirmities. 

It's been a great way to connect with students so far, please pray that myself and the students of Sunago will be able to witness through the Touch Rugby Club and other similar sports. 

Discovering students

Woohoo!

I've been encouraging students to invite their friends, classmates, and dorm mates to our Discovery Group, where we discover who Jesus is, what he said and did, and how that changes our lives.

Tonight our students invited 5 friends to join in discovery.

Please pray for our students as they embark on this wonderful journey of discovery together to know Christ intimately.

Cookies and Faith

What a good day! 

I had the blessing of giving out 8 copies of the New Testament and many cookies. 

Often people would come to the table for a cookie and would then would start talking about spirituality and end up grabbing a NT.

Please pray for the people on my list who came to chat with me at the Sunago table.

Betty grabbed a NT

Jess about sharing faith/rugby

Doug - teaches English continuing studies - NT - gospel convo

Valerie - NT - engineering 

Kris - cookie - adore 

Stephan - stress w exams

Jenni - NT - coming to Sunago

Girl - cookie/NT

Rain - theatre - cookie/NT

Charlene Hewitt - grad office faculty of engineering 

Nico - planing to meet up

Marina - cookie/NT - alpha - meet up coffee - business student 

Tito -  writing - meet up - gospel 

Alexa - NT/Cookie

I believe the day went well out of the blessing of our morning prayer group.

So please continue to pray that those who I connected with would feel God's presence, seek truth, and find Jesus.

Athletics for Christ

I'm sore but excited.
I've been helping a student start a ministry geared towards atheletes at Uvic, today we just connected another athlete willing to commit to the leadership team.

I thought I'd be an athlete myself, so I joined the touch rugby club today, one of UVic's largest clubs.
I ran hard for 1.5hrs straight.
I got to connect with a lot of the players today and am hoping to bring a couple of students from Sunago with me next time.
This is how we see many people come to Christ; meeting them where they're at.

Pray for us, as we run the race and press on towards the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus (Phil 3:14).
Pray for connections and divine appointments to share the love and grace of Christ.

Where'd they go?!

The students left equipped from the table out into the world. We just had a great time at Sharing Faith group. I was sitting in, teaching while Dave was away, equipping students with "how to initiate gospel conversations".

We had an enthusiastic group, discussing and practicing role-play together.

The students shared their hearts for their: classmates, roommates, family, and friends.

Pray for them as they pray and share the love of Christ with those around them.

Prayer Request: Sick and studying

I would love it if you could pray for me.
As the first month and a half of campus ministry was incredibly active and packed, I kind of placed my course work (OT survey for MDiv) and my health on the back-burner.
Now I feel myself needing to catch up on both.

Please pray for me as I immerse myself in books and Kleenex, sneezing and sniffling through bible studies and sermon preparation.

I feel like I'm starting to catch up, and I'm learning to be content in all things (Phil 4:12). Through sickness and health, our God is good.

Billiards: A Parable on the Meaning of Life.

"What was the white ball that sparked everything into motion?"
A student and I discussed the meaning of life around the billiards table.
What are we created for? What is our purpose?
We got to talking about the Gospel and how Jesus is the answer to all these deep questions.
Pray for Aaron, as we continue our journey along the path of faith.

Reading the Bible by the Fountain

"We want to get the bible in the hands of all peoples", I explained to German.

We met in the time-window at the interfaith chapel between his Roman-Catholic mass ended and our setup for Sunago Wednesday night.

Today, we met at the fountain, talked about Jesus, the Gospel, the important role of the Holy Spirit in our lives, and various differences and similarities between Protestant and Catholic Christians.

I gave him a New Testament and encouraged him to read the bible daily so that we can learn the Word together.

Pray for German as he reads a chapter from Mark's Gospel daily and for our conversations to be led by the Holy Spirit for the glory of God!

Early morning surprise: It was all worth it!

I was wondering why I was up till 3am, till I got a call from Japan.

My cell was on vibrate far from our room, and I just happened to be beside it, reading the bible, and James (one of my best friends) calls me.

We had such a priceless time talking till 6am, from phone to Skype, so that James and Audrey could see Isaiah!

James and Audrey have recently moved to Japan with the JET program, and have been witnessing God's glory everywhere they go.

James was a student leader at Sunago last year, until he felt the sudden and urgent call of God to apply for JET and move to Japan for two years (minimum).

Pray for James and Audrey, as they face various joys and trials, times of growth and countless adventures.

Late night thoughts

I once wrote in a song: "is it a late night or is it an early morning?"

I feel like I might be asking that very question soon.

I had such a good day today, filled with prayer, preparing for the night's message "Crucial: Community", and connecting with students. Sunago went really well last night (considering all the technical difficulties with electronics)!

But the combination of having a coffee (of which i am so much more sensitive to than before) around 9am and all the ministry events/ideas that have unfolded and that are to come, I find myself wide awake through the night...jotting down ideas on my flash cards as I lay in bed.

Some thoughts:
Students I want to contact this week
Questions for discipling meetings
Sermon ideas and notes
Ideas about plans
Ideas about how to plan ideas
...these are all general examples of the specific notes I've been staying up thinking about.

You might think: "Addison, you have a busy day tomorrow, a wife and kid to care for, a cold to recover from...should you just go to sleep? Maybe just stop thinking? That idea of drinking that coffee wasn't too bright eh?"

My reply is: "Yyyya, I should've only had a half cup of coffee or just tea. I've tried not thinking...no avail. I've tried praying about sleeping...he said no, my grace is sufficient for you. I've spent time praying for people, for strength for tomorrow, for health, for sleep...I guess I'll just see what God gives me, and I'll give him thanks. :)"


Last thought: I think I'll take a nap tomorrow.

It's 2:30am, I'll stop taking your time.
I think I'll read the bible and try round two with the Sandman.

Good night, or should I say, good morning?

Final Shout-outs: to Andy Moore, for being so Kingdom minded and partnering with us at Sunago; Mike Biddell, for having a cameo at Sunago and sharing his heart with our group; Tim Buckler, for investing time into what we're doing, by God'd grace, on the campus; Dave Gray, for joining me in my joy full-time on campus.

Pray for Nasrin!

I met a sweet girl at the bibliocafe and we started talking about Jesus and the gospel and we cleared up some misconceptions from her Muslim upbringing. God loves her so much, so pray that her eyes would be opened, heart softened, and ready to receive the gospel.

God, may your love and grace be magnified in her life.
May she see your beauty and come to you with great joy in your salvation, in Jesus' name!

Eccentric dance guy

So there's this really cool series of events that happened today involving Japanese students I met, an eccentric dancing guy that crossed our path, and a conversation about Jesus. Ask me about it sometime!

ESL Outreach

A hundred students have expressed the interest of connecting to our co-hosted Campus Alpha event, a group that meets over a free dinner to discuss the meaning of life from the Christian perspective.

A dozen students are ESL and mostly speak Mandarin and Cantonese. So I asked Thomas (left) and Hao (right) if they would be willing to lead a table of ESL students through this spiritual journey. 

They are planning to meet with the students at Starbucks this saturday, pray that they will be able to share the love and hope of Christ with these students.

Sunago BBQ Success!

We had over 100 students come out to our BBQ by the beach.
We played soccer, we connected with students, we ate food.

It was such a great way to bring students into Christian community
and we also had a group of new students come over to Dave's to watch a movie after it all.

Sunago's First Night @ The Interfaith Chapel

God has added to our numbers in wonderful ways. He has equipped us with disciplers, servers, gifted people in many ways, and many new students.  The house was packed last night and God was glorified. I'm very excited to meet all the new students, get them connected, and see them grow in Christ. Pray for much spiritual fruit in the lives of our students!

Connecting with new students

Since the beginning of the school term, we've had the chance of connecting with hundreds of students at Uvic. So far we've had over 75 students sign up for our email list. Pray for these students to get connected to Christ through our community. Pray for us as we undergo another 6 hours of connecting with students tomorrow at Clubs Days.

Learning languages

"Do you mind if I put my drink here?"
I had my hands full. Who knew that a question like that would open into a great conversation and begin a friendship. I met Michelle and Chris at the Biblio Cafe, she started teaching me Mandarin, I was exchanging questions in English, and it was "Hun yo shu!" (very interesting)!
We'll have them over for dinner sometime and they're excited to get connected to our community at Sunago!
May the students at Sunago love Jesus to the extent that it overflows in all facets of their lives!
Pray for the many international students we are meeting, that we might share the hope and joy we have in Christ.

Great first day

Dave, my new campus ministry friend at Sunago, serving full-time, joined me in connecting with students on campus today.

Us and 4 others met a couple hundred students, had opportunities to share the gospel, and connect people to our Christian community.

Pray for lots of students to get to know us and Jesus through our BBQ tomorrow night.

Praying, Planning, Preparing

We had a great first Sunago leadership meeting of the year.

It was so great praying with such quality servants of God.

I'm so excited to serve the campus with these friends and many others at Sunago.

The meeting was focussed, and then we got to having fun playing games and being silly.

 Above: (from left to right) Addison, Dave, Dakota, Hayden, Chantal, Bill, Emily, and Brent. Bellow: We attempted to write S u n a g o (Hayden was the cross on our logo).

Please pray for us, as tomorrow we will meet with many of the 3,000 new students at UVic. We will tell them about our new-student BBQ, about Christianity Explored, and hopefully we'll strike up some conversations about Jesus. :)

New Connections

Lately, Jesus has been answering my prayers to send more workers into the harvest. I've been connecting with several people who see the value of reaching out to university students and want to serve Christ with me in one way or another at UVic.

I had a great time connecting with Josiah, who's new to Victoria and he has a great heart for Christ, apologetics, students, and the needy people on the streets. We're going to see how we can connect him with the students and he can lead them in a street ministry a Sunago student had started a couple years ago.

Here we are as I showed him around the campus and we saw that the interfaith chapel was advertising for Sunago, praise Jesus!

Helping Others Explore Christianity

I've been meeting many students who are excited to minister to their fellow students on campus.

One of the ways we will be able to reach-out to others and share the Gospel is being inviting them to a nice dinner and experiencing Christianity Explored together. The format is well-framed, the content is inspiring, and the Gospel is spelled out clearly. I'm very excited to invite our students to each invite a friend to this series of nights.

Click here to get a better idea of what the course is all about.

New Location

We have an answer to our prayers: the Lord has given us the UVic Interfaith Chapel as a new location for Sunago! The Interfaith services at UVic is also blessing us by printing posters and hand-outs for us, wow. Thank you for praying for us as we searched for a new location. God has given us some major favour!

Our large gatherings will now be wednesday nights at 7:30. So please pray that our God will be blessed in our gathering during these times and that students will come to know the beauty and grace of God through Jesus Christ.

Location Need; Prayer Needed.

We can no longer meet where we have in the past and we must pray about where God would put us.
My most promising lead is the interfaith chapel. I've searched through countless options and this one seems to have much potential.
Pray for favor and wisdom.
May God be glorified through Christ in all things, even our location at Uvic.

Banners/tshirts/location

This week:

• We received our Sunago banners in the mail and they look great!
• I've been looking for a new location for Sunago's weekly large gatherings.
• We ordered a bunch of Sunago t-shirts.

These are all helpful factors in letting students know about Sunago and getting them connected to Christian community at UVic.



Pray for wisdom and favour to find the right room for our new location, for our leaders to be excited to live for Christ and minister to the students, and for new students to find out about Sunago, to receive Christ, and to join Christian community at UVic.

Baby vacation

We brought Isaiah to Whitehorse to see family and friends. Here he is with our friends' newborn sons.

Poster in Progress

Our Sunago leaders have chosen the new logo. 

The vinyl poster is in progress. Stay tuned! 

Pray for new life in Christ!

We had such an encouraging day. It was completely filled with prayer and reading of the bible and talking about God. 

In the evening, we had summit studies and my friend Dylan has been coming and has had many great questions about the Gospel. After the bible study, Dylan, myself, and a couple of friends went back to my house and talked about the gospel some more and shared our testimonies, and Dylan said he'd ask God to reveal Himself to him tonight. 

My friends and I felt the Spirit's presence at work in the room and felt deeply stirred in prayer for him. 

Please pray that God would bring spiritual life to Dylan and break through the hardness of his heart and make him a new creation in Christ!

Night Shift

It's 3:30am, I'm sleeping, and I hear "Addison, can you walk around with Isaiah?". This is no surprise to me. Most nights or early mornings I'll walk around with Isaiah for 1-2 hours.

It's been a great experience. It's like he's my accountability partner, calling me to keep watch, to be wakeful in prayer, awake for nightly vigil. So I spend time with Jesus, pray for people, listen to sermons and the bible, and write sermons.

I've recently started working on September's sermon series (tentatively) called "Crucial: Prerequisite lessons to living in Christ on Campus".

Tonight I'm writing a sermon about how we all have to take the Big Exam one day, that great day before God's judgement seat. And the only way to pass is to go to the examiner before the exam and say "I can't do it on my own! I need to meet with you in office hours."
Likewise, Nicodemus, the scholar, thought he could pass the Big Exam, but Jesus told him that he could not pass unless he was born-again.

Please pray for students to trust in Christ alone as they anticipate the Big Exam.

Isaiah Theodore: God's Salvation is a Gift

It's a boy!!! I'd like to introduce you to Isaiah Theodore Lacasse. Born Saturday, June 23rd at 10:22pm. Weighing-in at 8.1lbs. We've been in the hospital recovering and resting for 3 days so far.

Bethi's eating, feeding, and healing.

Isaiah is eating, sleeping, screaming.

And I'm walking around with Izee, listening to sermons/audio-bible, and making friends with new dads and moms.

Prayer request for spiritual birth

A couple friends from Sunago's sharing faith group and I were sharing the gospel with a 3rd year UVic business student from China named Emily.

I felt that God was stirring her heart as we shared the Good News with her.

Please pray that our glorious Lord would open her eyes and cause her heart to respond to the gospel through his Spirit. Jesus bring spiritual life by your grace!

As you pray for spiritual birth, please keep Bethi in your prayers for a healthy physical birth of our baby, as our due date is in two days!

Answered Prayer!

A week or two ago we prayed about getting a Chariot Stroller so that we could take our baby along when we run or bike. Carol, a gardener for our landlord knocked on our door a couple of days ago and donated this Chariot stroller to us! Praise the Lord! Our Father is such a generous Father!

Prayer Walk @ Camosun College

Skyler, the new Campus Ministry Apprentice (CMA) with Sunago in January 2013, and I went for a prayer-walk around Camosun College yesterday afternoon.

We saw this girl who was spray-brushing a big mural on a bike shelter and felt led by the Spirit to strike up a conversation. We had a great talk. She's a graduate student who's been into Buddhist meditation, and I, having just studied Buddhism for my summer course on World Religions, was able to bridge the gap between the lotus and the cross, between enlightenment and being born by the Spirit and coming to know Jesus as the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

I felt like God wanted me to tell her about how much he loves her and thinks that she's beautiful in his eyes and that he loves her art and how she makes her surroundings beautiful. We shared the gospel of the grace of Christ Jesus and prayed with her. It was a wonderful encounter. I really believe that the Holy Spirit was speaking to her and stirring her heart.

We continued our prayer walk for another hour or so and then I went home and praised God through the evening, truly a wonderful day. :)

Building Lasting Friendships

 The word Sunago is a Greek word that means "to gather together".  


An example of this is when Jesus said: "For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst" (Matthew 18:20).


At Sunago we want to build friendships that edify the believer, that glorify God, and that last a lifetime. 


In the featured picture, friends gather to celebrate one of our former-leader's birthday. Most of the people in this picture are or have been Sunago leaders, but we're all, without a question, friends who care about each other and want to encourage each other in our walk with Christ.


Please pray for Fall semester, when many students will be looking for a community to join and their decisions will have a huge impact on the rest of their University experience.

Being Equipped to Equip Others

Tag-teaming Academics

During the past 2 years of campus ministry, I've been taking part-time courses towards an MDiv on the side. This helps me to be better equipped to equip students for their lives in Christ on campus.

These courses have helped me deepen my understanding of the bible, God's word, and deepen my love for God in Christ.

In this photo, I'm taking a break from writing an assignment on a critique of the Qur'an. This summer I'm taking a course on World Religions. Studying the histories and philosophies of the world's religions has helped me understand where certain students are coming from, how to relate with students of differing religious backgrounds, and teach the followers of Christ how to bridge religions to the Gospel.

James, studying across from me, was a leader at Sunago this past year and is taking 6 courses this summer to finish his degree so that he can be a missionary/ESL teacher in Japan in August.
He comes to the library almost every day of the week from 7:30AM till ~9PM or so.
He's such an encouragement in my life and especially to my discipline towards studying.

Here's just a little tid-bit from my assignment.

Regarding syntax, Gerd R. Puin, a scholar skilled in Arabic, was entrusted by Yemen with the analysis of the earliest copies of the Qur’an (705-715 AD)  found in a Yemeni mosque. He comments: “The Qur’an claims for itself that it is ‘mubeen,’ or clear, but if you look at it, you will notice that every fifth sentence or so simply doesn’t make sense. Many Muslims will tell you otherwise, of course, but the fact is that a fifth of the Qur’anic text is just incomprehensible. This is what has caused the traditional anxiety regarding translation. If the Qur’an is not comprehensible, if it can’t even be understood in Arabic, then it’s not translatable into any language”

Summer Summit Studies

Pioneer Project

Campus ministry is similar to church planting: Our group is always changing, students are graduating and finding jobs abroad, and every year we encounter a new wave of students who have never heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ before. But we don't want to stop here, only sowing seeds at UVic, there's other campuses in which we want to reach-out to, like Camosun College.

So one of my summer projects is to scope-out Camosun College and see how we can extend a ministry for Christ on its two campuses (Interurban and Lansdowne).

So I'm researching the demographics (how many students attend this college and which faculties are most popular) and writing out strategies for how we would minister within the first year. I have to write a plan for how we would build community, what I would teach the students in discipleship, how I will protect myself from burn-out, and how I would fund-raise and budget for the club.

How would you plan to reach a commuter college of 18,000 students of 160 different programs?

HistoryMaker2012

This past weekend, I had the privilege of attending History Maker for the first time.
I attended the UCM booth, connecting with students from across BC and letting them know about Christian community in BC's various universities and colleges.

I also had the privilege of speaking at one of History Maker's breakout hubs on the topic of "What you need  to know @University #Important", with ~20 young adults within grade 11 and 12, helping them with the transition from grade 12 to 1st year at University.

Western North-American Leaders Conference

Despite major car breakdowns, Bethi and I had a deeply formative weekend at a conference in Trail, BC.

We learned a lot about:

• Raising-up leaders
• Taking risks
• Being a relational and a missional community
• The ministry of the Holy Spirit
• God speaking through His people today

I believe this weekend was a milestone in my life of ministry.

Mark 3:13 "And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him. 14 And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach".

UCM Staff Retreat

Last week, we got together in Kelowna with UCM Staff from around BC.
We enjoyed Christ in:

• Rest
• Fellowship
• Prayer
• Worship
• Exchanging stories/resources

It was such a great experience, I learned a lot about how different campuses engage in discipleship, and I had some time to gain vision for what God wants to do through us this summer. 

Ending the Year with a Bang(quet)!

We wanted to end the semester with something special, so we tried hosting a banquet!

• 1 gourmet chef
• over 50 students
• a candle-lit dinner
• a challenging/encouraging message for the summer
• and quality-time together.

It was a success! There were so many unplanned tasks throughout the night, but we had such a wonderful group of students who were ready to jump in and help. We hope to keep this banquet going for years to come!

The Joy of planting and watering!

The last few weeks, I've been so priviledged to see God do a saving work in the lives of many. And I am humbly reminded of Paul's words in 1Corinthians3: "5What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. 6I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth."

Lives being changed.

Crowns cast down before the throne of God.

Families tearfully rejoicing.

What a priviledge and joy.

SHARING FAITH: Spiritual Surveys

This year at Sunago, we've started a group called "Sharing Faith", where James and Dave have been equipping students with a biblical understanding of how to tell other students about the Gospel. Now ready to apply their knowledge and skills, the students from the Sharing Faith group have organized several events in the next few weeks in which they will have the opportunity to share their faith with others. In our first event (in the picture above), 8 students went out in groups of two to conduct spiritual surveys with students around them. The students of our group had excellent stories to tell at the end of the night with wonderful experiences encouraging them that sharing their faith isn't as intimidating as they thought.

Here are the spiritual survey questions:

1.What do you study?

2.What is your religious background? Do you attend or have you attended church/synagogue/temple?

3.What is your experience with Christianity?

4.Do you believe in God?

5.Do you think that spirituality is still important today? Why or why not?

6.Who do you think Jesus was?

7.(Question for follow-up if they're in sciences) Do you think science and religion contradict one another?

8.If you could ask God any question, what would it be?

9.What do you think the central message of Christianity is?

WE'RE ALL GOING TO PRAISE JESUS!

We're going to Passion World Tour!
9 Sunagoers are going to Vancouver tonight to join 10-12,000 young-adults to praise Jesus at the Rogers Arena. It's going to be so awesome!

http://www.268generation.com/wt2012/vancouver/

God is stirring hearts!

There are many in our midst at UVic who are feeling the love of God drawing them to Him. These are exciting times! Only God can bring life and true devotion into someone's life, lets pray for His Holy Spirit to move!

"And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh". - Ezekiel 36:26

Adventures After Campus Ministry

One of our grads at Sunago followed the calling of Jesus to Flin Flon, Manitoba and has been on adventure since then. This Skype conversation I had with him will be shown at Sunago this tuesday. 

At Sunago we want to equip students to think thoroughly, love deeply, and live fully for the glory of Christ. And I think that Tim's story highlights that vision well.

Thank You!

My thank you's to a few of my faithful supporters!

Fridaynight Faithtalk

In the past 2 months, on friday nights, we've been watching and discussing a small-group series called "Reason for God" by Tim Keller. The discussions, based on common objections to the Christian faith, have been very insightful and have helped us learn how to engage in these topics on a university campus.

Sunago Worship Workshop

We had James Liira from Adore, a graduate from Hillsong School of Worship Music, led our worship team through a workshop on how to lead the people of God through praise.

Intro to Addison as Campus Minister

I used to party-hard; but now I praise God. I had no clue of who Christ was in my second year of University. However, coming to Sunago UCM (the campus ministry I am now a part of), I received prayer and I heard the gospel for the first time in my life.

Sunago played a huge role in my conversion to Christ, and soon after, I got baptized at Sunago (in the freezing-cold ocean)! It was also at Sunago where I first had the chance to get involved in bible studies, city-ministry, international missions, student retreats, growth through a position in leadership, and I am now very excited to be able to serve at UVic as Sunago’s full-time missionary apprentice.

My hope is that God will use me to nurture and equip students to become mature Christians, fully clothed in God's spiritual armour, and emanating the fruits of the spirit wherever they go as ambassadors of Christ. 

Follow my steps on this wonderful adventure along the paths of God's glorious plan! 

The University is a missions field where students are asking questions about the meaning of life, about their purpose, about Love, and about Truth.

Along with the help of mentoring pastors, I will immerse myself in the culture where post-modernism thrives, where immorality is rampant, and where secularism is the status-quo. 

Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field." - Matthew 9:37-38

Check out Sunago's site at www.Sunago.ca

Like any other full-time missionary, my sole income comes from friends and family like you.

You can donate to support me at www.UCMONLINE.com   ->  Giving   ->  Addison Lacasse

If you have any questions about what Sunago is all about, or the organization I work for, feel free to ask me.

Addisonlacasse@gmail.com, or reach me on Facebook.

- Addison Lacasse, Campus Missionary Apprentice