Monday, January 15, 2007

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.

2 comments:

throughwaters said...

Sounds like a big decision ahead!

Matt Mikalatos said...

Hey buddy... I'm available if you want to talk about this. Of course you wrote this weeks ago and I am only just now writing on your blog. But I am a bit of a lurker.

In other news, please remember that CM07 is at the BEgiNNING of July. If you come at the end of July it will just be you and thousands upon thousands of South Koreans.