These stats were recorded by our staff on Fort Lewis College, Colorado Mesa University, Auraria Campus in Denver, and the University of New Mexico between August 2015 and March 2016.  
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3,360...... New students our teams have personally met this year
658........ Evangelistic Gospel conversations our teams had with students
18.......... Students indicated a decision to receive Christ
1,909......Personal discipleship appointments with students on campus
132.........Students that are involved in intentional discipleship appointments
68...........Students that are involved in small group Bible studies

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Javan    
Junior- Graphic Design
​Fort Lewis College 

In the fall of 2014 Javan left Dennehotso, AZ and arrived at FLC, unpacked his stuff, and ran into Brandon and Kevin who were involved in Connect [Master Plan is known as “Connect” at FLC].  He went to the MPM Welcome BBQ and met a lot of his friends like Nate and Justin. In the months that followed he began meeting with Nate and Justin for “discipleship” appointments on campus.  When asked what ways he has grown in his faith at college Javan said “A lot of ways! Being open and honest with people.   When I got here I was nervous and shy. I did not want to say much.  I never took my faith seriously before Fort Lewis, I was never real and vulnerable.  Going to Connect during the talks, we would have a good discussion about sharing your thoughts.  Meeting with Justin is super cool- one of my favorite things to do!  I can open up to him about anything.  Whenever I have a problem, I can talk to him about anything. He encourages me in my walk.  He is always giving scripture that I can refer back to, we encourage each other and hold each other accountable about it.   He can relate to [Native] reservation life as he grew up there… I got to share my testimony at one of the retreats for the first time.  It was nerve-racking, as I am not good with public speaking… It was cool to see people listening.   Now I am more confident to share my story 1 on 1.”
Javan also has grown a lot in confidence to go out and share the Gospel message with others since being involved with Master Plan.   MPM staff have introduced Javan to Soularium – a conversation starting tool we use to open up Spiritual conversations with new students.  “Going out and doing Soularium a lot is really helping me to reach out to other people. When I came I was really quiet, but using the Soularium helps me to hear other peoples’ stories, and they hear some of mine. It helps me to meet new people.”  Javan set up a Soularium table with MPM staff member Dakota Woodie earlier this year when they met a student that was willing to talk:  “We were in the Student Union and he was passing by, and we invited him to do the Soularium. We had been talking for a while, and he was asking questions.  We spoke and answered his questions for 15 minutes.  I was pretty nervous to meet him.  It taught me a lot and having Dakota at my back was very encouraging… 1-2 weeks after we shared, he came up to Dakota and said that he accepted Christ! Now I am taking breaks in between classes, and I will take Soularium to share with people solo. I love to hear people’s stories and then share with them my passion about Jesus and parts of my testimony.”

Tyler 
Sophomore-Criminal Justice​ Colorado Mesa University

Tyler moved into the dorms of CMU from Montrose, CO where he identified as a Mormon.  His dorm’s Resident Director was Dylan, a student who was a member of Master Plan.  Dylan invited him to “Tuesday Night Live” which is Master Plan’s large group weekly meeting on campus with praise music, and a message from God’s word.  Afterwards he would go to MPM staff members Forrest and Hope’s house for food and games, and that’s where he met a lot of friends, and his future wife.   He found the real Jesus when MPM staff member Brandon Akins sat down with him to share what the Bible has to say about salvation.  “Brandon went through the Knowing God Personally [booklet] with me and it was pretty eye opening. This was the missing piece! This is truly the right Gospel.  The Gospel was unique because, in the Latter Day Saints church, we rarely opened the bible.  We’d always use the Book of Mormon.   I finally heard that Joseph Smith is not the way to Heaven but Jesus is. This was new to me!  Now I go with Brandon each week to church and meet for discipleship with Forrest once a week.  We sit down and talk about theology.”  The discipleship content that MPM uses is based in the scriptures, and helps students to get grounded in their faith and teaches them to articulate their faith, and finally helps students to share their faith.  “It has been a blessing to see other students come to events because we invited them during evangelism.  We use the Soularium cards, Forrest showed me how to use them, and how to have gospel conversations.  We go through the “Knowing God Personally” book with people that are willing to listen.  Anytime you get the opportunity to share with someone you will grow.  It is a monumental shift going from people pouring into you to you pouring into people. Now I am the one inviting people to TNL, and greeting people!”   

Luis
Junior- Electrical Engineering  
University of New Mexico

During Spring Break 2015, MPM staff and students from across the region went to the University of New Mexico for a pioneer trip. We lead daily outreach since their campus was still in session. That is when we met Luis, who grew up in Albuquerque.  “I met Linda [an MPM student], as I was actually trying to avoid her! She was in the main plaza at a table doing Soularium.”  Luis came to our outreach event where we shared the Gospel at the campus ballroom later that week.  “Then in the fall I got an email from Nate [the staff director at UNM] about meeting up to talk- I said ‘yes’. He invited me to his house, we had dinner, I had fun.  I was struggling with God’s existence, rejecting religion. I looked really deep into it and realized that life is better when you believe in God. I decided to put my faith in God. [I was] brought up Catholic, but I had walked away because it was too institutionalized… I did not have a personal relationship with God.”  Luis has gained more understanding about how to have a relationship with God through being exposed to the gospel over the last year, but Nate shared one thing with him really stood out: “One of the biggest things is- we all sin- whenever I sin I try to pray to God- but Nate made it super clear- our relationship [with God] never changes, but our fellowship changes when we sin.”  Luis has also recently been willing to let God use him influence others for Christ.   “One of my best friends was having doubtful questions about God.  He was asking me questions about it… He was having issues with having faith.  He was not too faithful because he was not a good enough person...  We talked for a long time… A couple of weeks later he told me that God is real.” 

Rachel 
Junior- Digital Design
​University of Colorado Denver  

Rachel got connected with MPM after transferring to UCD  August '15 from a school in Texas.  She came with a prayer that she would find “the right Christian ministry and church”. On Tuesday evening, she saw a poster for “AMP” the weekly meeting at the UCD campus and she went.  “everyone there was ridiculously inviting.  I went on the first retreat and that is where I felt part of the group”.  Rachel has since grown a lot in her relationship with God, and in being a light to others. “There are lots of ways [I have grown] in boldness with my faith- confidence in it.  It started with the Rocky Mountain Winter Conference.  When we did the evangelism outreach time, I was paired up with Forrest.”  Forrest is an MPM staff member, and he helped to lead the students in evangelism at a local ski resort where the staff and students initiated gospel conversations on the chair lift.   “We did preparation time in the car on the way there- I cried. I was terrified!  I used to be very anti-Christian and argumentative with Christians.”   However by the time they were at the ski mountain, her courage was changing.  “The first guy we spoke with, was very non responsive… But I was still encouraged to see staff share their faith.  We went on the chairlift and [I spoke with] a father and son (high-schooler).  The son went to the same church that I went to in Amarillo when I first became a Christian!   That was the first time I had ever spoken out to someone else about being a Christian.”  Rachel says that since the Winter Conference she is still growing.  “I started reading the bible more, and having ‘quiet times’ a lot more often. I have a lot more eternal perspective now, and I hope to live with Christian girls [next semester].” Rachel pointed to how just last week on March 4th, she was using her evangelism training.  “I shared the Gospel last Friday night for the first time with a Chinese student…she did not know what Christians were!” Rachel points to how she has been going to the evangelism time with the staff and students on campus where she has learned how to ask good questions.  We thank God for what He is doing in Rachel’s life and we are glad to be a part of it.