By Kourtney and Stephen, Salt Company leaders

Jacob, one of our Salt students, began talking with a coworker at his part time job. After Jacob and Aidan had worked together for a year, Aidan finally came to a Salt Company service for the first time this April. After the service, I turned around and Aidan and his girlfriend were sitting behind me. I introduced myself and began to get to know them. God was clearly working, so I asked him what was going on. He shared he had no idea, he just knew he needed God. I was able to share the Gospel with him and he made the decision to trust in Jesus Christ as his savior. We got him a Bible and he has been reading it. He lives 30 minutes away in a town that one of our network churches is in. We got him connected to a student leader at that church so that he can begin to be discipled. Praise God for how he used the faithfulness of Jacob at his work place and the power of the Holy Spirit to reveal himself to Aidan.

In our last update, we mentioned that we had been training our staff to prepare for new leader interviews. We had 280 students apply to be on our leadership team. After having them fill out an application, gathering a personal reference, and participating in an hour interview with two staff members, we have selected our leadership team for next fall. Out of the 280 students we accepted 201 students! Which means we will have more than 400 students on our leadership team next fall. That is 50 more students than we have ever had on leadership. What a blessing! However with that blessing comes a high level of responsibility for our 20 person staff team. This past Sunday, we conducted a new leader meeting for our 201 students. It gave our staff team a touch point with students and it also gave our students a better taste for what it means to be a student leader. We shared a vision for what we expect for them as a leader. We hope that as a 400 person team we would be an authentic, ambitious, family. Please be praying for our 400 plus student leadership team. That we would push to be a family on mission for God’s kingdom. And also as a staff team that we would remain healthy as we try to care for and shepherd our leadership team.