Hello from Boston!
It has been a whirlwind around the Catholic Center here at Northeastern over the last week. As students begin to settle into their class schedules and I settle into my own routine here, I want to take a moment to celebrate what God has done during welcome week here in Boston! Throughout training, many returning SPO missionaries and staff stressed the importance of reaching new students during welcome week, they also stressed how crazy busy and exhausting it would be to go to event after event, welcoming students and making sure they felt seen and loved. I was nervous about welcome week before I landed in Boston. As an introvert, it sounded like too great a feat. Perhaps on my own it would have been, but I quickly found what it would take to make it through this week - grace. Welcome week grace was so real! For every tabling event, every new person, every conversation over another Catholic Center event promoted with “free food”, I was strengthened and excited. Me… excited about large groups and new people and mingling?! It could only have been grace, and I am so grateful for it. I am grateful for the grace that allowed me to meet with so many freshman, to encourage them and let them know that it was normal they were feeling overwhelmed. I am grateful for the grace that allowed me to persist when someone passed the Catholic Center table and walked away from what I was offering with a simple, “I’m an atheist”. I am grateful for the grace that allowed me to get up and pray for the women I was meeting by name. I am grateful for the grace that allowed me to remember those names. I am grateful for welcome week grace, and I am so excited it is only the beginning of what God has in store this year! It is such a privilege to be here and get to know the students here in Boston. I have a few prayer requests for supporters:
Thank you for your support and prayers! In Jesus through Mary, Katie
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Margie Meyers
9/13/2017 11:01:08 am
Oh Katie - you made me smile this morning ! There is no such thing as an introvert for Christ :) Ha Ha! No one hides a light under a bushel...so He has put you right smack dab in the middle of "extrovert week" :) and then powered you up with His grace. Wanna see Jesus go to work? Just turn over your greatest struggle and He will power you through. Case in point! Way to go, girl! When we keep our eyes fixed on the goal and not on how we feel - it transforms us. I'm a big believer in this. Mostly from seeing God do it in my own life. But your story is a great example of it too. I continue to pray for you and the ministry, the kids you reach and the ones you don't. All for God's glory! #heavenlymission #strengthandgrace #yougotthis! xoxox
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Susan Fisher
9/13/2017 11:53:53 am
Thank you for your updates and the prayer requests will help me pray more specifically for you! I'm really impressed that you are an introvert as I consider myself one also. It's a true grace story you shared! God Bless you and your work! Love, Susan
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Linda Gillum
9/14/2017 09:39:53 pm
Katie!! This update is so great, especially the part about your excitement around large crowds. I applaud you little sister! God is already doing miracles and I look forward to your updates as we praise Him for all the amazing things He is already doing in and through you and your team. It trickles out to the whole world and I am blessed to be partnering with you on this journey. We will lift up your intentions and those of your teammates and students. God be praised, now and forever.
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