NCF Campus Vitals for Student Group Leaders

August 2009

In this Issue:

New Student Orientation - Ideas and Resources
Urbana '09 – Registration and Scholarship information
Freebies
Bible study – John 15:5-17

Welcome to the "new" Campus Vitals, now coming to you monthly during the school year. We hope this newsletter will:

• help you get more connected with Nurses Christian Fellowship
• give you valuable, timely information for your campus ministry

Each month we will highlight different topics that we've planned out according to the school year. We are always open to ideas, so feel free to email them to Bonnie Hann.

New Student Orientation Ideas and Resources

Schools welcome new students in many ways, but there usually is some opportunity to share about student activities and organizations. More...

Check with your school to find out how to get in your school's student organization fair
Think through the supplies you might need – table; posters or decorations to show you are a student Nurses Christian Fellowship group; a sign up sheet for more information; some small things to hand out (Tootsie rolls are great)
Have 1-3 students at the table to be available to answer questions.
Consider having your next meeting time and place, along with a contact name and number, on a small card for the new student to take with them

We have many resources already made up for you to order or download. More...

Order some NCF and NCF Student Ministries brochures at http://www.ncf-jcn.org/publications/broofreq.php
Posters to advertise meetings, postcard invitations, and information cards can be downloaded, personalized and printed from http://www.ncf-jcn.org/student/resources/main.php.

Don't forget to cover the beginning of the school year in prayer! We are praying for you too!

This December InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, of which NCF is a ministry, will be having its 22nd missions conference in St. Louis. Learn more about info for nursing students...

There will be a healthcare major, as well as many workshops relating healthcare with missions. Please let your students know about this opportunity. Learn more at http://www.urbana09.org/tracks.seminar.cfm .
The cost for students goes up after October 17, so encourage students to make a decision soon and sign up. Learn more at http://www.urbana09.org/home.main.cfm.
NCF does have partial scholarships available for students. You may request a form through Bonnie at Bonnie Hann.
Here is the link for ordering Urbana brochures to pass out to nursing students: http://www.urbana09.org/inviteothers.orderpromomaterials.cfm

2 Plus Prayer Card

Freebies - We would like to send our groups some free prayer cards (for students to use in praying for friends – we'll explain more in the next Campus Vitals) and student ministry brochures. If you think your group would use these, please email Email Bonnie with your name and mailing address. The first 10 people to respond to this offer will also get some NCF pens and post it notes, so respond quickly.

Remaining in Jesus – a Bible study from John 15:5-17 – designed for the Christian core students in your chapter as they start the school year. This can be used as a group or shared individually. Click here for the study...

John 15:5-17 (New International Version)

John 15 ⁵"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. ⁷If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. ⁸This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
⁹"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. ¹⁰If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. ¹¹I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. ¹²My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. ¹³Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴You are my friends if you do what I command. ¹⁵I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. ¹⁷This is my command: Love each other.

Go through the passage and circle all the times it says "remain".

In this passage, the word "remain" means to continue being, to stay or to endure.

Who or what should we remain in?

What then will remain in us?

Why should we remain? What will the results be?

How should we remain (vs. 10 and 17)?

What does remaining look like for you right now?

What do you need to work on in order to bear fruit?

Remaining
Obeying
Asking
Loving

Take some time to pray about this right now. Ask God to help you to see the areas you can work on this year as you remain in him. Write down at least two specific things you are going to work on to help you grow spiritually and bear fruit with God's help.

Campus Vitals has been compiled by
Bonnie Hann, RN, BSN, BS-Missionary Nursing
NCF Campus Liaison
Email Bonnie