Summer is Upon Us

Jeffrey Neikirk
June 09, 2025

Spring Semester Update

The Spring semester was a blast! Students came out to paint houses, make valentines for widows, watch the Super Bowl, and many other things. Our students love to hang out, and it shows in their willingness to even come to an event about vegetables!

Students painting a house

Students at a Super Bowl Party

As the sign says, this is “Veggie Night”

Guys being guys at our graduation event

In addition to all these fun events, students came to our Tuesday night Large Group to learn about the book of Daniel. We covered the whole book. Both the life of Daniel and the crazy visions at the end… It was a lot of fun and definitely an interesting time. I had the opportunity to preach on Daniel 7 and talk about the Son of Man, Jesus, this semester. I also helped lead a small group of freshmen guys through the early chapters of the book of Acts.

Summer Conference

At the end of the semester we took students down to Panama City beach for our annual Summer Conference. They enjoyed time spent with friends on the beach, playing card games, and resting after a long semester. During this time, they also had the opportunity to sit on several seminars about different facets of the Christian life. In the evenings we all went together to a Large Group of 500+ students (there were over a thousand there for the week) to sing praise to God and learn about glorification, God’s plan to set all things right at the end of the Age.

Personal Update

Gabby and I have been doing well, but we certainly have a full load. Gabby has become the lead preceptor of her unit at the hospital, which means she is in charge of making sure all the new hires have what they need to know and get assigned to someone for training. She has also recently gotten to move to the ICU, her dream job. This move was recent, last week, but so far she is loving it.

I wrapped up the Spring Semester of seminary recently, which was the hardest so far. The grind does not stop though as I am taking four classes this summer and six classes in the fall and spring. My goal is to graduate this coming May. This is doable, but will require some serious effort on my end.

There is one last big update here at the end. Together Gabby and I will go to RUF assessment in July. This is like one long casual interview to see if I am a good fit as a Campus Minister and which campuses we would be best suited for. We are excited about this opportunity and ask that you would pray for us as we prepare for it.

Prayer Requests

For new students this Fall.
For my seminary classes this summer and next school year.
For RUF assessment July 7th–10th.