Spring 2011 Update

We want to multiply! Multipliers are essential for our chapters on campus On Jan. 22, 2011, we saw well over 50 student leaders from all over Northern New Jersey and Hudson Valley Area gathered together for a full day of training. One of the two training offered was giving vision and tools to become a multiplier on campus. In this track, student leaders were asked the question: "imagine when come Monday, you and the rest of your leadership team were no longer on campus. Who will step up? Will they be ready? Will Intervarsity still exist on campus?" This idea of multipliers was received  by Newark students when they realize what their answers were to these questions. The imagery painted was the idea of teaching someone how to ride a bike. A multiplier is someone who teaches by being patient and pushing the learner in the right direction...as opposed to grabbing handle bars and trying to "pull" them in a direction.                                               Two skills that came along with this imagery is that student leaders need to be intentional in their ministry, as well as be active in their ministry. Planning and programming is not the only thing they do. Last week, 30,000 Newark students began their academic journey for the 2011 spring semester. This new idea/concept has steered the mentality of our student leaders, and we are extremely excited for new programs as well as reviving old ones. However, not only are they planning on their own, teams and committees are forming as student leaders are now truly working together with their peers as we begin to serve our campuses together!

February's 28 Days of Prayer Join us as Intervarsity in the NY/NJ region to pray during the month of February. We are praying for: Students & Faculty to be Transformed by the Truth of Jesus Christ The Campus to be revived and Renewed by the love of Jesus Christ Students leaders to practice their faith on and off campus as World Changers for the Kingdom of God If you would like to commit to praying and/or fasting during this month, please contact me for more information.   Prayer Requests: I've been coughing since the week before Christmas. I finally visited the Doctor's yesterday and I have an infection on my throat. Please pray that I will have a speedy recovery. I will be giving my first talk at our Large Group meeting next week, please pray for words and truth to inspire students. I am still working on my Fund Raising. Please continue to pray for God's provision and blessing through financial partners.

Thank you and Merry Christmas

at NEWARK

Merry Christmas!

please watch this video for a personal message from Boaz =]

and a Happy New Year!

Once again I want to thank all of you for your continuous prayer and support. I am now at 76% of my total budget goal for the year! All of this could not have happened without your prayers. However, with that being said, the last 24% of my budget is still a hefty $17,000 that I need to raise. My goal is to raise all of that this Christmas season. I would like to encourage you to consider giving a year-end donation towards my ministry with Intervarsity. Your generosity will enable us to move forward to serve more students on campus. Your financial partnership will help us to provide more training and discipleship for these students as well as grow them Christian leadership to serve their campus. If you would like to make a donation, please follow this link and follow the instructions on the website. 

Serving the Name above all names,Boaz Tingson

tis the season to be Jolly

Tis the Season...

Hello there Friends!

Our Christmas Concert is just three days away!!! I pray  that many of you have planned on coming out to celebrate with us and I hope to see many of your faces this coming Friday =]

If you're still deciding, here are 4 reasons why I think you should attend:

1. You'll get to spend time with IV students and Alumni that you are investing with me
   
2. Enjoy AWESOME Christmas music from 2 talented bands
3. Hear testimonies directly from IV students at Newark
4. Learn how to grow your partnership with IV Newark

Again, the information for the concert is:

This Friday, Dec. 10, 2010 at 7 p.m.
The New Hope Baptist Church (website)
106 Sussex Avenue 
Newark, NJ 07103
Free parking available in church lot.

If you can't make the concert, that is alright I know that the with the holidays coming up it is difficult to schedule things in. However, I would still like to invite you to make a gift towards the ministry's scholarship fund to help aid students so that they can go to student leadership trainings. Just simply click on this link to donate and follow the instructions on the website.


...to be Jolly =]
Once again I want to thank all of you for your continuous prayer and support. I am now at 76% of my total budget goal for the year! All of this definitely could not have happened without any of your help. However, with that being said, the last 24% of my budget is still a hefty $17,000 that I need to raise. I would like to encourage you to consider giving a year-end donation towards my ministry with Intervarsity. Your generosity will enable us to move forward to serve more students on campus. This semester we hosted 9 small groups in Newark (6 of them in NJIT!) and we would love to grow to 14 in the spring semester...which means we'll have 28 student leaders JUST for small groups! Your financial partnership will help us provide training and discipleship for these students and grow Christian leadership to serve their campus. If you would like to make a donation, please follow this link and follow the instructions on the website.

Serving the Name above all names,
Boaz Tingson

SAVE the DATE for Intervarsity

^ NJIT students that went to the Big Event.       ^ Large Group worship session at the Big Event. Hello Partners in Ministry! First off, thank you so much for your continual support in prayer and my work with Intervarsity. I am extremely blessed to be working with you for the advancement of God's Kingdom at NJIT. We had 7 students that participated in the BIGGEST Big Event ever for training and 1 student who served on the camp's workcrew for the weekend.                                                These students took time off from family, school, and work to invest in their spiritual growth. As a result, their investment translated to a renewed spirit in being an active witnessing community on campus, as well as the desire to continue growing their love for God, God's word, God's people, and more importantly, God's purposes for the world. As they have committed themselves to continue their spiritual growth, I would like to present an opportunity for you to see these students in person as well as making a direct investment in them. My ministry partner and I will be putting together a Christmas Benefit Concert on December 10, 2010 at a local church in Newark to raise scholarship money for these students so that they may attend our student leadership training in the Spring of 2011. Here is the information for the concert: So yeah, I pray that you will be able to join me to celebrate our semester of ministry together, as well as taking the opportunity to come meet the students I work with each day! Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions about this benefit concert.  I hope to see you there =] serving the Name above all names,                                                                                         Boaz Tingson

October Update!

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half way...w00t!!!

I'm half way there!!!

Hello there friend =]
I just wanted to thank you for praying with me for my fund development. God has been doing some amazing things over these past two weeks. I am currently at 40% of my total budget, which is half way to my 80% funding goal. Praise God!

However, this also means that I need to raise another 40% of my total budget (which is about $28,000) in the next two weeks =X Please continue to pray for me and my funding as I am drawing closer to my funding deadline.

Good Soil. Bold Witness. Changed Hearts.In other news, part of what we are doing here in the New York/New Jersey Region is beginning a "40 days of extraordinary prayer". Intervarsity is a conversion ministry. Skeptic to Seeker to Follower to Leader to World Changer. But in order for our ministry to work, we need to PRAY that our message makes its way to Good Soil, so that we can engage our communities by Bold Witness, and invite students and faculty to turn their lives to Jesus resulting in Changed Hearts.

You might be wondering why now? Well, a big reason is that thousands of college students are on their way to campus this fall who do not know Jesus. They are hungry for meaning, they are thirsty to belong to a community, and more importantly, they are dead in their sin. They are in the midst of making friendships and decisions that may last a life time beyond their time on campus...and we want to meet them.

I would like to invite you to join us as we enter this season of extraordinary prayer. Beginning this Sunday Aug. 22, 2010 until Friday Oct. 1, 2010, I plan to pray for Intervarsity-Newark ministry everyday at 9:30pm-9:45pm EST. If you are able and would like to pray with me, simply call (218)-339-2626 and enter access code "7077465" to pray together with me as well as other Intervarsity-Newark staff, students, alumni, donors, churches, and friends. It's FREE!!!

So yeah, I look forward to spending 15 minutes with you daily in prayer for God to prepare the hearts of students on campus to receive His love...and that we will be bold witnesses to hearts that will be changed by God's power!

serving the Name above all names,
Boaz Tingson

August 2010 Prayer Letter

Thank You! As I took some time to pause from working on my fund development earlier today, I came to realize that the amount of support and encouragement that I have received thus far has been a true testimony to God's abundant provision. It has been a true blessing to be in partnership with you in my new ministry with Intervarsity, and I wanted to take some time to tell you that I am extremely thankful for all the prayer support you are providing =] I am also thankful for all the financial support I have received thus far. I am now at 28% of my full budget. Praise God! As the school year draws near though, my goal of being 80% funded before the semester begins seems to be impossible for me to accomplish =X However, I was reminded in my prayer time this week that I serve a God who is abundant in His provision. Even though God has already provided so much for me, He has even more that He plans to give to me...because He has plans to prosper me, and He has plans for me to do His work at NJIT! So, I would love to invite you to pray with me this coming month in this manner: that as I continue to work on my fund development, God will provide the people and resources that I will need that will allow me to not only reach my 80% goal, but that I can be fully funded by the end of this month! serving the God of abundance, Boaz Tingson