What a wonderful 2024 we will have at FCM in the Treasure Valley
Morgan Brendle, our Campus Minister serving the Treasure Valley, is sharing this collegiate spotlight this month. For more information about the work she does in Idaho, visit www.foundationcm.org
Boise, ID – Now that the Christmas joy of spending time with the family in Oklahoma as refreshed my soul, we are ready for a great year serving students at campuses across the Treasure Valley. We ended the semester with a Christmas carol night at College of Western Idaho and an intense gingerbread house decorating contest. After finals finished, a group of student met to help plan out the spring 2024 semester. My heart is so excited to hear where they want to focus and new areas they want to grow in or put themselves out of their comfort zone. Areas of focus include fun community building (a must in college), but where things changed was the inclusion of training. They all planed to spend an extra day a month to learn more about ways to share their faith, staying in hard conversations, to practice ways to bring their faith into these topics, and where they wanted FCM Bible study nights to go. These are 19-23 year old kids with many other options on how to spend their time, But this is what they did on a Monday afternoon in a McDonalds lobby on their Christmas break. I am so inspired by their motivation and passion for the gospel. Continue to pray for their boldness on campus, time management, priorities, and relationships as they prepare to take on the next semester. I am praying God-sized dreams for these students.
As Christmas has passed and the new year is upon us, I pray you are seeing the love of God in your life and have opportunities to share it with those around you in 2024.
As always, I’ll be excited to share what God is doing in the lives of FCM students and join you in praying for the college campus. Thank you for being part of all the God stories from 2023.
Lastly, if you would like to give financially to Foundation College Ministry to support the work we do to serve BSU, CWI, and NWNU here in the Treasure Valley, please visit our giving page at www.foundationcm.org/give – Thank you. – Moran Brendle, FCM Director
God is doing great things on campuses across the two states of Utah and Idaho. This is just a small portion of what your State Missions Offering supports. 100% of our UISBC College Ministry work is funded by the York-Dillman State Missions Offering. To give to that offering, visit www.uisbc.org/give
Boise, ID – The National Collegiate Day of Prayer was February 23rd. The leaders of Foundation College Ministry in the Treasure Valley decided this was a perfect occasion to celebrate by doing a campus outreach where we hand out Hot Chocolate and Donuts and pray for students on the campus. The impact was incredible. FCM joined with other campus ministries and church friends who volunteered to help serve the students of Boise State with us. We prayed with a handful of students, listened to numerous prayer requests, and we went through twenty dozen donuts by the end of the morning. It was the perfect day for hot chocolate as it even snowed on us at one point. 
The day did not stop there, later that night FCM and the other campus ministries connected to Boise State joined together for a prayer meeting. It was so encouraging seeing everyone get together with the same heart of praying for each other, their campus ministries, and for the students of Boise State. The night consisted of worship then moved into praying for each ministry. A representative from one group would share what God is doing and specific requests for their ministry, then we would spend time praying over what was shared followed by the next ministry representative ending that time by praying for them from the stage before sharing about their ministry with the group. By the end of the night, students and leaders encouraged one another and the ministries were unified with the same goal of reaching their campus with the gospel. 
