Midwest Gospel Work

Spring College Conference 2024 Report

We would like to express our gratitude to all the churches for their prayer and support for the recent Midwest Spring College Conference. College students from 9 states on over 35 campuses came together in Joliet, IL. The topic for the conference was "Live in Christ" and the students' responses to the Lord's speaking was very refreshing and encouraging. 8 brothers were paired together to release the burden that these students would not only realize Christ is now in them, but that the Lord is calling them to live in Him on their campuses for the building up of the church life in every locality. There were 370 that gathered together with over 270 of them being college students. Each morning about 80 serving ones gathered for prayer and fellowship. The blending of the serving ones across all the localities was so sweet. We are really laboring as one team in the midwest. It is also very encouraging to see many young serving ones giving themselves to serve the Lord throughout the churches.

A group picture from the conference and the recordings of the messages can be found at https://mwcollegeconf.org.

Please pray for the MW College Training July 17-21 in Columbia, MO. Registration will open March 1 at collegetraining.org.

Full-Time Campus Teams Today

We now have a total of 53 full-time and 3 part-time serving ones. We thank the Lord that we have so many serving ones to sow and to reap on these campuses. As we continue to labor, we expect to see even more entering into the local churches, attending the Full-Time Training, and being sent everywhere to serve the Lord. We praise the Lord and we thank all of the saints for their continued support.

At present the fund is contributing towards the support of 36 full-timers in 8 localities. While we still have a healthy reserve, we expect the need to support more and more workers to increase, so we look to the Lord to continue to supply the needed funds for the following 9 teams:

• Ann Arbor: 5 Full-timers
• Chicago: 5 Full-timers, 1 Part-time
• Cincinnati: 5 Full-timers, 1 Part-time
• Columbus: 5 Full-timers
• Fairborn: 5 Full-timers, 1 Part-time
• Lemont: 2 Full-timers
• Lexington: 5 Full-timers
• Madison: 6 Full-timers
• Minneapolis: 6 Full-timers, 1 Part-time
• St. Louis: 1 Full-timer
• Urbana: 7 Full-timers

But to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all the generations forever and ever. Amen.

Eph. 3:21

We still maintain a healthy balance, but as you can see, it has decreased by $38,518 since the end of 2022. This continues the trend we began to observe in 2022. This year so far there has been a decrease of 2.75% in gifts received, and a 12.7% increase in disbursements. Our giving is not keeping pace with our outflows, so eventually we will not be able to support as many for this valuable labor.