Welcome to the Greater St Louis Church!

Campus Ministry

 

The St. Louis metropolitan area is home to a number of prominent universities and colleges.
Over 110,000 students from all socioeconomic backgrounds attend college with the hope of
building an exciting future. Building strong moral character can be one of the last things the
college experience provides. The main purpose of our Campus Ministry is to provide an opportunity for students to build great friendships with other Christians, grow spiritually,share the gospel, and participate in a variety of fun and exciting events while excelling in school.

The Campus Ministry strives to make each student's 
college career memorable, fulfilling and life-  changing!

  

 

CURRENT

        EVENTS!!!

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Friday April 11th, 2008

Relay for Life

@  UMSL

A few snapshots from the all night walk @ Relay for Life

 

A couple of storm troopers showed up at about 1 a.m. to take care of these rebels

 

 

 

 

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Feb 29th, 2008

Mike Lee @ Off Broadway w/ his band

 All Else Fails

 

 

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Gayle Dubowski Memorial

On Wednesday Feb 20^th Crystal and I along with Kyle and Mike Lee traveled to Chicago Illinois to attend the memorial service for Gayle Dubowski. Several of our students knew Gayle and had spoken to her the weekend before she was killed. Gayle had grown up in the church in Chicago. She was killed at Northern Illinois University on Feb. 14^th in the shooting. We were blessed to be at the memorial along with around 2000 other brothers and sisters from the Dekalb and Chicago Churches of Christ as well as many from Gayle’s family, former high school and college classmates, teachers, and friends. One of the survivors of the shooting was also in attendance.

 

St. Louis native Shannon Lantz Kekhaev performed a song that she had written for Gayle which was followed by a poem written by Curt Simmons entitled “Well Done”.

Several teachers, ministers and classmates shared stories and memories of Gayle. One constant theme during their sharing was that Gayle wanted to make an impact on this world. It was clear by the sharing and the attendance that Gayle had certainly made an incredible impact. A Memorial on Facebook was created and within hours over a thousand people had joined the group. The Facebook page is also filled with memories, pictures, and videos of Gayle. 

  

Perhaps, the most inspiring moment came when Gayle’s parents shared. Joe and Laurel Dubowski were clearly focused not on the death of their daughter, but on the life she lived and the eternal life she will now live. Joe reminded all of us about what really matters, our eternal destiny.  The service truly was a celebration of Gayle’s life, faith and salvation.

                                                                        -   by Tim Schmidt

  

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Ministry In Training Conference 

 

 

At four o’clock in the morning on February 9^th Daniella, Kyle, Mike Lee, Antwan and I made the long trip to Northern Illinois . We were attending the MIT (Ministry in Training) Conference. The MIT Program is designed to raise up leaders who have the dream to be in the fulltime ministry. We prayed on our way there to prepare our hearts for the powerful messages we would hear. Upon arriving Anthony Testa of Dekalb taught a stirring lesson about the importance of leaders having a strong relationship with God by looking at the life of David. Tony Singh taught an awesome lesson on the practicals of leading Bible Talks. He went through the gospel of mark and showed us how to apply aspects of Jesus’ ministry to our Bible Talks. One example was how Jesus would use simple everyday things as a spring board into spiritual discussion, like the parable of the sower in Matthew 13:19-23.

 

It was great to get those precious nuggets of wisdom from a long time minister like Tony. The sisters heard a great message from Meegan Zillman while Mark Kang from Milwaukee preached to the guys about being trainable and loyal by looking at Paul’s relationship with Timothy. He encouraged us to learn how to be in training mode with 1 Timothy 4:7-8.  After the lessons we went out two by two to share our faith on campus while it was snowing. Despite the temperature and snow we met several open people. Prayerfully the people we met will become Christians with the help of our brothers and sisters at NIU. The MIT are always challenging and inspiring, and this one was no different. Dreams of leading for God were stirred  in everyone who attended.

-  by Mitch Harris

 

 

Also... 

 

- Congratulations to Mitch and Daniella on their engagement!!!

Way to go Mitch, she said YES!!!

 A June Wedding is in the works.

 

 

 

 

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Congrats to Antwan Watson for winning the Mr. Black 68 contest at UM St. Louis Antwan was awarded 1st place overall and also finished 1st   in the Q & A and Fashion portions of the contest. Antwan read an original poem for the talent portion. Great job A-Wat!!!

  

 

Also....

 

 

Coming in July 2008

International Campus Ministry Conference

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Join us for one of our Soul Talks on campus or our Friday Night Devotionals:

UMSL -

Tuesdays 7 p.m. University Meadows Clubhouse

Wednesdays 12:30 p.m.  Millenium Student Center Rm 313

Lindenwood -

Tuesdays 3:30 p.m.

Webster University -

Mondays 1 p.m. University Center

 

Friday Night Devotionals @ Tim & Crystal's home 7:30 p.m.

 

For more information contact: Tim Schmidt

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