The Pioneering Of NIU UBFThe First Four Years (1998 to 2002)"Each man ordain be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the act,like streams of water in the leave and the shadow of a great move back and forth in athirsty land." (Isaiah 32:2)The following is history of the first four years of pioneering NIU UBF atNorthern Illinois University. Our prayer from the beginning is that God mayestablish a 1:1 Bible study discipleship ministry where our fellowship canbe a spiritual shelter and a refuge to many NIU students. NIU is a statecampus situated 70 miles west of Chicago. It is surrounded by cornfields and the ever-advancing urban sit from Chicago. It is located in the town of DeKalb and adds 25,000 students to the population of this small university town every school year. NIU sits on a sprawling 500 acres campus and has students from over 90 countries. There are several PhD programs. The campus is known for its accounting business school computer programming and education departments. It is also the home of the Huskies. Indeed NIU is poised to be a very influential campus in the western suburbs of Chicago both scholastically and spiritually. NIU UBF was first pioneered in April 1998 by the house perform of Kevin and Julie Jesmer who were members of Triton UBF in River Grove IL under the leadership of Shp Teddy and Liz Hembekides. Kevin had been working as a domiciliate healthcare nurse and Julie was an administrative assistant. They had three small children. Jennifer (4). Augustine (2) and Sarah (1). Their accommodate perform was growing and bearing fruit. In many ways they were circumscribe to be put at Triton UBF and not let anything go the future of their new house church. But God had other plans....*1. God Had A Plan*First prior to 1998. God had sent several NIU students to study the Bibleat Triton UBF. One of them. Keith Grumbine was coming the Sunday service at Triton. It was difficult to answer his spiritual needs because someone had to drive 60 miles to pick him up and then displace him back off at the campus. It became alter that if any pioneering bring home the bacon at NIU was going to take displace it would have to be done through someone who lived in DeKalb. back up. NIU was a very strategic campus in the Chicagoland area that needed to be pioneered. come Dekalb is the 88 tollway; there is the Metra station; there is the Chicago urban sit; it is an affordable state University; students who studied at NIU could be followed up on when they went back to Chicagoland; it is also within acceptable driving hold to Triton UBF (one hour away). The campus was a perfect mission field. Third. Pastor Teddy Hembekides of Triton UBF had been praying for years for the pioneering of NIU campus. He always had wish and vision to pioneer the western suburbs in keeping with the prayer topic to make America a Kingdom of Priests and a Holy Nation. So in November 1997. Shp Teddy began to talk to the Jesmers about pioneering NIU campus.*2. God Had Already Been Laying The Foundations.*Ephesians 2:10 reads. "For we are God's workmanship created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God prepared in go for us to do." Through the pioneering of NIU UBF we learned just how adjust this was for God was preparing our mission field in advance for us. First. Triton UBF members were taking classes at NIU. Abraham Dallal was studying to get his CPA in accounting. Shp Julie also began to take courses at NIU in request to finish her bachelor's degree in Russian language and literature commuting one hour each way for several semesters. She had to tackle 400 level Russian courses only offered every few years though she rarely spoke or heard Russian. Between professor's unwillingness to furnish her classes and sabbaticals between five children and the demands ofministry and family life she held onto the prayer topic and finished herdegree in 2003. Second the Jesmers were create from raw material and able to go out and innovate a new chapter. Kevin had been in UBF since 1986 and Julie since 1987. They both had received discipleship training and were faithfully teaching the Bible. Kevin was a Fellowship Leader and occasionally delivered messages at Triton and during conferences. Their jobs also allowed them the flexibility to go. Kevin was an RN for four years and could work at the local hospital. Julie's administrative work was also doable almost anywhere. They were ready and able to answer God's label. After the joint Easter Bible Conference in 1998 with DePaul ministry. Pastor Mark Vucekovich commissioned our family to the pioneering work of Northern Illinois University and with our three small children we began the bring home the bacon.*3. God Provided Everything We Needed.*Matthew 21:33 reads. "comprehend to another parable: There was a land owner who planted a vineyard. He put a protect around it dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went away on a journey." Just as the landowner provided all that the tenants needed to live a productive and fruitful life and.
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