From Glory to Glory

It says in the Word in 2 Corinthians 3:18 And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

In the KJV ever increasing glory is also phrased as "from glory to glory". 

The verse basically says says we as His body will be transformed to His image and He will take is from glory to ever increasing glory. And well our Campus ministry has become a living testimony of that Word. God has just been taking us from glory to glory!!

His truly has a heart for the youth and revival on campus. We have just been increasing in so many aspects!! One aspect is the number of students that attend. Last semester we used to have 30-40 students come out and it always fluctuated throughout the semester. If they hear a good speaker was coming the numbers would go up, but if they had a lot of workload or if it was during midterm week the numbers would go down. Well that was last year and this year we are in a new DISPENSATION! Each week this semester we have been seeing our numbers grow from the beginning of the semester with a number of  around 30 students to having around almost 70 students come out each week is pretty crazy! 

Not only that we always have prayer meetings before large group and we saw a few people come out to that last year but every week we break the record when we had 29 people come out we were so excited but a few weeks ago we had 40! Can you imagine a group of 40 students before large group just praying and interceding for their peers? It just blows my mind away how God is just so good to us.

Emmaus Large Group at a church outside campus
Taken by Judy Choi

Not only that, but we have been having issues about getting a permanent room for our large group. So each week we would move from one location to another. As disappointed as we were at the beginning of it all we just knew that God was setting us up! We knew that the room we used to stay in could no longer hold the increase we were about to get. So in faith we just moved according to where the Lord lead. All throughout April we could keep the room we were in but after that we were on our own. We had a lot of difficulty finding a room that could match the normal time we have in Emmaus and many other things that lead us not to have a room. But God ALWAYS provided last min for us. The first week we were able to get a room by a church out of campus who's campus ministry who usually meets there happened to go on a field trip that particular week. And that was a powerful night where Pastor Erin preached about  A New Dispensation. Which was just the beginning of my heart and mind stirring towards a new direction.

The week after that God lead us to the campus gym building and that was when Pastor Benjamin Robinson (Pastor Christian and Erin's spiritual father) came to our Large group and ministered in such a powerful way; and the Holy Spirit came down and manifested on so many students. 

All that to conclude that God is truly moving here again this semester. I honestly couldn't believe that He would take us to where we are now. I remember last year loving it so much that I couldn't imagine what it would be like for God to take us to the next glory. Yet here we are again just in awe of how amazing He is. He is truly a God that can't be put in a box. He is a God full of surprises, adventure, and excitement!