We're going to Basileia! & new donation link =]

Hello Prayer Partners!

YEAH! Uh huh, you know what it is...Basileia Basileia Basileia Basileia =D

Yes, it is indeed that time of the year again. This year, I have the privilege of being at camp for 3 weeks to be with Intervarsity students of NY/NJ as they attend a conference called Basileia. For those of you who don't know, Basileia is IV's summer leadership and discipleship training for students in our region. Basileia is Greek for “kingdom”—the kingdom of God! We’ve named our summer training Basileia because we want students to deepen their knowledge of Jesus Christ as King and improve their capacity to be His ambassadors on campus. In addition, this training points beyond college as they will settle in communities, participate in churches and enter the marketplace as kingdom people who make a world of difference.

With that in mind, will you join together with me to pray for students for this coming 3 weeks. (5/13-6/2).

Please pray for:

• Safety in traveling (it is ~300 miles from Newark)
• Spiritual & Physical well being of staff, volunteers and students (my allergies have been worse than usual this year)
  
• For God to reveal himself as students from all over NY/NJ come to camp each week
• For me as I lead student leaders of Newark for the first time (on my own!) in program planning for the academic year of 2011-2012

In other News: there is a new donation website! If you have a profile with the old website, it should still work with the new one (mine worked). If you need any help with setting it up, please do not hesitate to ask. Speaking of donations...I am currently still about $10,000 short of my fiscal year goal. Please continue to pray for my support and fund raising. If you would like to make a donation now, you can click here and donate today!

serving the Name above all names,
Boaz Tingson

March 2011 Ministry update

We welcomed 3 new members to the Kingdom of God! Over the last month, we have seen 3 students come to faith in our Large Group. Here are their stories: Caroline, from Rutgers-Newark, has been friends with our Chapter President, Marilyn, and after 3 weeks of consistent spiritual conversations after class, she accepted the invitation to attend LG. As our speaker Ashley Byrd made the invitation to faith, Marilyn leans over to her friend and says "are you ready to turn away from sin and run to God's embrace and accept Jesus into your life?" Caroline nodded yes and asked Marilyn to go to the front with her.  Matt, a freshman with Junior class status at NJIT responded to a call during LG a few weeks back when we talked about Forgiveness. He realized that he was doing Christianity, but not being a Christian. He came up within seconds of the call being done and the guest pastor walked him into the Kingdom Lola, a freshman from Rutgers, stood alongside Matt and rededicated her life to Jesus after telling Marie that she had let college take her far away from God. She embraced God's forgiveness and is desiring to walk with Christ more firmly than ever. Leadership changes at Newark With the end of the school year coming soon, we are in the midst of making transitions with student leadership as well as Campus Staff leadership here at Newark. I am extremely excited to let you know that my ministry partner, Marie Rodriguez, will be taking on a new position with Intervarsity beginning this summer. Her new position will take her away from the campuses here at Newark. She will begin doing fund development coaching to newly appointed staff as well as allowing her to spend more time with her two boys and another one that is coming in the next month =] With that being said, I would also like to let you know that we are looking forward to welcoming a new provisionally appointed staff at Rutgers - Newark. Pending on her fund development, we are praying that she will be able to begin campus ministry in the spring semester of 2012. In addition, we have welcomed 3 other staff to our area here in North New Jersey/Hudson Valley. Will you join with me to celebrate and give thanks to God's provision and calling his people to do his Kingdom work on the University Campuses! I made a video! There has been so much going around the world today: from the racial incident at UCLA to the earthquake in Japan. It is during times like these that we (Christians) are questioned the most by society on where our God is. As I was going through my devotions yesterday, I came upon the text in 2 Corinthians chapter 1 where it speaks about God being our comfort. As a personal response, a song that I sang at church last week came to mind and I was motivated to make a cover for it. You can watch my video here. My prayer is that you will be able to worship together with me as you watch it =] Matt and Lola taking a stand in response to God's call at LG. Prayer Requests: I still have my cough since Christmas. I'm not exactly sure what is going on at this point, but I have been getting much better this past week. Please continue to pray for my health as allergy season is just right around the corner for me. With the exciting news of Marie, I am also extremely anxious of what is to come. Pray for peace and comfort in my heart and mind as well as wisdom as I continue to do ministry here in Newark for the remainder of this school year, and the next coming school year. Will you join with me in praying for the newly appointed staff in our area as they begin their Fund Development in this coming year. Through God's grace, I have been extremely blessed with all of you who have been praying and supporting me financially. As I am still working on my Fund Raising, I have calculated that I am about $14,000 short of my budget at this point. Please continue to pray for God's provision and blessing through financial partners. If you would like to make a donation, click here.   Boaz Tingson Campus Staff Member - NJIT If you would like to support me financially, please donate here If you would like to stop receiving these emails, please email me back and I will remove you immediately. Copyright (C) 2011 InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA All rights reserved.

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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