Looking Ahead

Towards the beginning of July, God willing about 22 people, staff and students, will be heading to CM2007 (Campus Mission), a week-long conference in South Korea. From the website, this is: Campus Crusade for Christ’s first global missions conference. It will be a historic event with three primary themes: Christ Magnified, Connected Movements, and Completing the Mission.

We are excited to have 8 students who have applied and been accepted to go from Mérida, along with Amber, Bryon, and Emily from our team who also desire to go. I declined as I feel God has called me to Venezuela for the year and I want to focus all my time and attention here. However, all those going will need to raise about $3000 to go. Please pray with me for everyone that's going, both for their fund-raising and for God to prepare their hearts. If you would like to donate financially let me know as well. For more info on the conference visit: http://cm2007.net/

Also I will have to make a final decision in the next few months on whether to re-STINT and spend another year here in Venezuela. At this point I'm still planning to stay just this year and then return to the states to finish at UW before continuing with missions abroad. However I want to be open to the Lord's leading and the possibility of staying another year if this is where He wants me. Please pray for me that I could follow God's will in this decision.

Revving up ministry

Break is officially over and we're getting back into ministry. It was a trial towards the end of last year. Student leaders have complained about not including worship, which we have been trying this year in order to make the meeting more of an outreach and less of a church service, or simply that the meetings are boring, though new students have been coming.

One of the things we want to focus on this year is developing in ourselves and our students a desperation for God that results in more of a desire for Him and a heart for the lost. To accomplish that we also want to focus on prayer. We had a prayer meeting this morning and several students, some 'clasicos' (longer time in the movement) and some newer, came and joined us. It was very encouraging to see them there and asking God to be at work in their own lives and in the movement. It was also cool to hear one of the students echo our own thoughts- he talked about how he desired to have more of a heart for calling on the Lord.

I'm looking forward to the rest of this year and I'm trusting God to move on campus. Please pray with me that God will really be transforming our lives and and the lives of those in the movement, motivating us to seek Him and to reach out to others in a big way.