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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
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Dear Friends of AFLBS,
On the Road:
Hello from Pennsylvania!
I've spent the past five days in Pennsylvania
and Maryland. I've had the unique privilege
of visiting many of our AFLC congregations
and pastors, representing AFLBS. My
goal has been to encourage our AFLC
family in the Eastern US and promote
AFLBS among the youth and parents in
the congregations here. I've enjoyed
visits to Home Missions congregations
in Reading and Boyertown, PA, preaching
at our AFLC churches in Landisburg and
Loysville, PA, where Pastor David Peterson
serves. "We loved having the Barnabas
team last year," says Pastor Peterson,
"They left quite an impression on our
kids. My own kids want to attend AFLBS
someday." I also had the opportunity
to speak to youth groups in Hagerstown,
Maryland and Bethel Park, PA at Ruthfred
Lutheran Church, enjoying visits with
Pastor Steve Calson and youth worker
Aaron Kroenke, and staying with AFLBS
Alumni and former resident heads, Adam
and Courntey Osier and their son Jacobi,
who are serving their seminary internship
in Pittsburgh.
On the Home Front:
City Vision Bus Tour Opens Eyes
of Students
As students studied missions during
the month of January at AFLBS, we brought
in director of
Minneapolis City Vision, John Mayer,
to help open the eyes of our students
to the vast world of cultures, religions,
and people groups that live right here
in our community.
Last Saturday, he gave our school a
glimpse of what that mission field looks
like. Many students and staff were able
to take the
City Vision Bus Tour with John Mayer,
where he showed us the wide array of
people groups (Minneapolis has the second
largest concentration of Somalis besides
Somalia) and the growing presence of
false belief systems (Wicca, Church
of Jesus Christ LDS, etc.) that pervade
the Minneapolis area. Seminarian
Ryan Tonneson commented that
the tour was "truly a city vision. It
gave you a vision for Minneapolis, for
the lost in the city. You read about
how Minneapolis is such a diverse city
but to see it in person was something
else."
God has brought the world to our doorstep,
and the tour caused us to see how vital
it is for the gospel of Christ to reach
these people. "It adds a motivating
force behind out mission," Tonneson
shared, "It kind of sets the fire [...]
for missions and outreach to reach people
for Christ."
Mayer gave us many insights about stepping
into the cultures of the people we're
trying to touch, getting to know how
they live and think so that we can better
direct them to the Truth. We pray that
God will build in our students--in all
of us--a heart to bring people from
all nations into the Kingdom of God.
Proclaim Choir Prepares for Tour
to Northern Minnesota
The 18 member women's choir will sing
in churches in Blackduck and Fosston,
MN and Grand Forks, ND, finishing their
President's Day weekend tour at the
Northwest Minnesota District Youth Retreat
in Thief River Falls, MN. For more information
and concert times,
click here. The
AFLBS Mixed Quartet will travel
with the choir. "We're looking forward
to sharing on the theme, 'The Lord is
my Rock and Salvation' and connecting
with our congregations in Northern Minnesota,"
says AFLBS Music Director, Mr. Andrew
Hanson.
Find additional new items, prayer
requests, and latest videos below.
In Christ,
Chad Friestad,
AFLBS Student Development Director
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 Vespers
Services in the AFLC Chapel
We're excited to announce a new
opportunity for worship on our campus!
In the upcoming months, AFLBS will
be hosting several Vespers Services
in the Hans Nielson Hauge Memorial
Chapel--and we want to invite you
to join us!
Worship leaders from the area, and
students from our school, will lead
the services each time. The first
service will take place in just
over a week, on Friday, February
24th, at 7:30 pm. One of our seminarians--and
a friend to many--Josh Skogerboe,
will be leading the evening with
the worship team from Living
Hope Church in St. Michael, where
he serves as worship leader and
Executive Pastor. On Sunday, April
1st, the AFLBS Worship team will
lead us in praise at the same time.
These will be great times for us
to worship together, read Scripture
together, and pray together. With
each service, our heart is to simply
adore the name of our mighty King.
Vespers is open to everyone--we'd
love for friends, family, and especially
youth from all over the area to
come and join us. Please
feel free to invite anyone!
We hope to see many of you there!
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Spring Cam pus
Days is on Its Way!
March 16-18, 2012
In a little over a month, we will welcome
an excited herd of high school students
for the annual Spring Campus
Days, a weekend-long event
where we can befriend and encourage
students as they consider coming to
AFLBS. Campus Days provides us with
an awesome opportunity to impact young
people and simply walk alongside them
as they seek Jesus Christ and His will
for their future, whether that be AFLBS
or not. So we invite any youth,
grades 9-12, to come explore AFLBS.
We'd love to see many of them walk onto
our campus one day as students.
Pastor Eric Westlake
will be coming to share with the students
from the Word and, for the first time
ever, AFLBS will be taking a group of
students to Feed My Starving
Children on Saturday, March
17th, during the afternoon recreation
time. The weekend will be full of activities,
learning, and worship, so come and join
us! If you have a daughter, son, friend,
or relative who would like to experience
AFLBS, please pass on the information.
**Spring Preview
(April 1-2) will take place
shortly after Campus Days weekend, too.
High school students who want to see
what day-to-day life looks like for
AFLBS students, can spend Sunday evening
with us, stay in the dorms, and go to
Monday morning classes!
For more information and to register
online, please visit our
website.
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Join with Us in Prayer and Praise for
God's Work:
- Praise God for the eight
summer teams that will
be preparing for ministry beginning
in June. Just last week, AFLBS and
Home Missions finalized the members
of each team--continue to pray for
each team as they train for their
summer. Pray for unity and servant
hearts for the teams, and wisdom
for all those involved in creating
the team schedules.
- Praise God for the prayer
team that keeps growing
each day! Keep praying for the continual
building of this prayer ministry/support
team--pray that God will do great
things as we turn to Him!
- Pray for the Scholarship-400
initiative, that God would
provide scholarships for students
so that many would be able to come
and study at AFLBS. Pray, too, that
God would create and grow in the
AFLC a heart for the Bible School
and what happens here. That's where
the work begins.
- Pray for the 5 MTI students,
Brandon, Seth, Shane, Gabe,
and Steve, who are serving in various
congregations around the US. They
will be interning through the month
of April, returning in the first
days of May.
- Pray for the upcoming
Proclaim Choir Tour which
spans from Friday, February 17th,
through Monday, February 20th. They'll
be traveling around Minnesota and
into North Dakota, sharing their
music and testimonies with various
AFLC congregations--pray that God
would settle all the little details
and use the choir to shine God's
glory and bless many hearts.
- Pray for Micah Berger
and Hans Tanner, short-term
missionaries in Jinga, Uganda, this
year. They're serving with the Nate
Jore family and recently moved into
an old mansion with several other
families. Pray that God would use
them to be lights to these people.
- Continue to pray for
Jeremy Erickson as he begins
to move this next week towards the
transplant. Pray for God to display
His power, His strength, His peace
for Jeremy, his wife, and his three
boys.
- Pray for the AFBLS Basketball
teams as they travel to
Enderlin, ND for the NIAC Confrence
tournaments.
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"This is how God showed his
love among us: He sent his one and only
Son into the world that we might live
through him.This is love: not that we
loved God, but that he loved us and
sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice
for our sins."
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I John 4:9-10
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