Tuesday, 22 July 2008

• UPDATE: CAMPUS Needs Your Prayers & Help TODAY

  CAMPUS (Center for Adventist Ministry for Public University Students) has been overwhelmed by the enthusiastic response from students and young people to raise $1m in one month.

  THE LATEST 

  Seven days ago CAMPUS requested your help to procure a facility for its Missionary Training Program and other activities.  Miraculously a three-story, 32+ room building opened up in Ann Arbor, near the University of Michigan campus. Originally listed at $2.5 million, the property is now slightly below $1 million. CAMPUS was one of nine other groups that expressed strong interest in the property.

  • On Monday (July 14) CAMPUS made a bid on the property, explaining why CAMPUS's use of the facility would greatly contribute to the need spiritual, social, and physical needs of public university students.
  • On Friday (July 18), CAMPUS was notified that it's offer was being seriously considered. The owners, however, requested CAMPUS (i) to increase its earnest money (a small advance payment that confirms a contract) from $10,000 to $30,000 and (ii) to agree to come up with the full amount for the property in 30 days, instead of 45 days.
  • On Monday (July 21), CAMPUS was informed that a decision would be made on our bid today (July 22) and be notified on Wednesday morning (July 23).

  WHAT YOU NEED TO DO 

  1. Pray that, if procuring this property is the Lord's will, God would move upon the hearts of the decision makers. If God has a different facility in mind, He must steer us in that direction. Regardless, pray that the Lord would provide a much-needed facility for our Missionary Training Program and the other evangelistic and ministry activities.

  2. Pray that the Lord help us raise $1m in 30 days for this particular property or the needed resources for any other facility. 

  3.  We need your generous contribution today.  Send us your generous financial support to procure this property or a comparable one.  We believe that there are students, graduates/alumni, parents and people of good will who can easily help us raise the $1m within 30 days.  You can send your tax-deductible contribution in two ways:

  • Donate online at: www.umich.edu/~asforc/CAMPUSstory.html.
  • Make your checks to:  CAMPUS Project, P. O. Box 19009, Lansing, MI 48933

  4. Pass this information to all friends and loved ones to ask them to act. Here are additional reasons why CAMPUS is counting on your prayers and generous financial support:

  • "CAMPUS has earned the trust of young people as a place where lives are transformed.
  • It is a Center where brilliant and godly Seventh-day Adventist leaders are developed to engage the world of secular campuses and win souls for Christ.
  • It is the birthplace and sponsor of GYC (Generation of Youth for Christ), a thriving, grassroots, revival movement organized and led by Adventist young adults.
  • It has a biblically-grounded philosophy and methodology of ministry.
  • It is the only Seventh-day Adventist secular campus ministry with a viable, sustainable, carefully-planned, and year-round program of training for students (e.g., LEADS Conference, ExCEL Program, Annual Retreats, publications, etc.).
  • It has succeeded in creating a spiritual movement of young people which is Bible-based, mission-driven, and racially-diverse.
  • It is fulfilling E. G. White's 1895 statement that ministry to secular campuses is "a work [that] must be done, and it will be done by those who are led and taught of God" (3SM 234). Interestingly, this statement was made in connection with The University of Michigan! Thus, CAMPUS may be seen as a fulfillment of a 100-year old prophecy."

  By the end of this week, we shall notify you of how we are doing in the fundraising effort. 

  For further information, contact CAMPUS at info@campushope.com / (734) 332-7955 or contact Dr. Pipim at skpipim@gmail.com / (734) 646-7775. Thank you for your prayers and generous tax-deductible financial support.

  "The shortness of time demands an energy that has not been aroused among those who claim to believe in present truth" (MM 321). 

  Samuel Koranteng-Pipim, PhD

  Director, CAMPUS

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