On Thursday and Friday, the team planned on handing out one thousand invitation cards per day, with Bible distribution at the table. However, all three campuses nearby, i.e., West Virginia University, Fairmont State University, and Pierpont College, suspended classes because of extreme cold and snow. The team spent the downtime following up with the contacts that have been gathered during the first three days of campus work and preparing the materials for the conference.

Today, we started our BfA conference with saints from Wilmington, Washington D.C., Pittsburgh and other surrounding localities, including two WVU students who responded to the invite.

Highlights:
We enjoyed the first three sessions of the BfA conference on life, the Word of God and Christ. We enjoyed the blending among the localities— the biggest such blending in West Virginia history.

Prayer Burdens:
That more students would respond to the invite and attend the last session on Lord’s Day That students would respond to our follow-up appointments on Monday To connect the students who attended the conference to a home Our labor on the campuses in Pittsburgh next week

Highlights (Jan. 30 - Feb. 1)
On Wednesday, when we arrived at Concord Community College (30 min. north of Manchester), we found a posted list of clubs that are currently inactive but have already been formally approved, including a club named “Christian Students.” It can be restarted by students showing interest in such a club. Many students who received Bibles expressed an interest in having Bible studies on campus and restarting the Christian Student club. Since then, we’ve already had one Bible-reading appointment with a seeking student.

On Thursday, we handed out 500 invitations for a seminar at the church in Lowell in a span of 45 minutes. One student received the Lord that night!

We had many very encouraging visitations in the past few days. Our prayer is that the Lord would usher these families and individuals into the center of the church life.

Statistics:
Gospel tracts: 1 Bibles: 11 Ministry booklets: 11

Prayer Burdens:

• The Lord will reach many residents of Manchester and Concord during Bible distributions at their local malls tomorrow and the following Saturday.
• There would be strong follow up with students that we have met over the past few days.
• Many seekers would attend the upcoming workplace and BfA seminars.

This afternoon we had BfA outreach in two different places: the Manassas Mall and the VRE station in Old Town Manassas. At the station, there were not many people outside due to the cold weather and snow, but we were able to speak to several people and passed out 5 Bibles. Two local sisters joined us at the mall, where we were not able to openly display the Bibles, but had meaningful conversations with those we contacted. All in all, we handed out 10 Bibles, 3 Basic Elements of the Christian Life, and around 5 tracts.

In addition, we will have a BfA Bible Seminar tomorrow afternoon. The goal of this time is to reach people in the Haymarket/Manassas area who have been reading ministry excerpts published in a local community magazine.

Prayer Burdens:

• That the Bible recipients from today would read the Bibles they received and have further contact with the saints
• That the Lord would use the BfA Bible Seminar tomorrow to gain those who attend
• That the Lord would keep us healthy and strong in spirit

Today, we had a BfA connect event on the NOVA campus in Manassas at 2pm. The Lord answered our prayer by releasing a room just a few hours before the event. It was an encouraging time as 3 out of 45 Bible recipients showed up at the event! We are going to have another BfA event next Tuesday (2/5/2019) at the same venue on the NOVA campus in Manassas. The three who showed up today indicated their interest in coming again next Tuesday!

Tonight was the first college meeting of this semester for the students at George Mason University (GMU). The subject of the college meeting for the semester is the “Crucified Christ”. Around 14 students turned up and we read portions of the ministry and also sang and enjoyed the Lord together!

Prayer Burdens:

• For the Lord to release more to come to the BfA connect event on the NOVA campus in Manassas next Tuesday (2/5/2019)
• For the students at GMU to know the Lord as the crucified One so Christ’s life can flow out of the students!

We thank the Lord that we are now on the second part of our gospel trip, which is here in Birmingham, AL.

Today, we had a wonderful time blending with the local saints in Alabama. We first toured the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa and then traveled to Birmingham. At Birmingham, we blended with the saints over a love feast. We had a time of singing, eating and getting to know each other. We look forward to more blending this upcoming week. Moreover, we are eager to dive into the work that the saints are carrying out here. The main burden for this week would be to gain college students from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. So, this upcoming week we will spent most of our time being with the saints on campus. May we be channels of life so that the Lord can pass through us.

Prayer Burdens:

• That the Lord will continue to strengthen and blend together all the saints in Birmingham, Alabama.
• That the Lord will bless the campus work at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and gain much remaining fruit.