Update

Dear Friends and Ministry Partners,

As some of you might know, Campus Crusade for Christ is a large umbrella ministry with many smaller ministries functioning under it. The “campus” ministry that we work for is only one of the facets to Campus Crusade for Christ as a whole. One of the other wonderful ministries that Campus Crusade for Christ offers is called Keynote, which is based on music. Keynote has an acoustic/rock band called Blue Sky Nine that came to Nebraska last month and performed on three of our campuses: Peru State College, Doane College, and Nebraska Wesleyan University. The purpose of Blue Sky Nine coming to campus is for them to be used as a ministry tool to either make the name of Campus Crusade for Christ more known on campus, or to share the good news of Jesus Christ during their concerts. It was such a blessing for us to have this band perform and share the gospel on our campuses, and we’re so excited to see how God uses the seeds that were planted during the concerts for His glory.

In our letter from last month we explained to you that our plans for the summer were to attend New Staff Training in Orlando, and that we would then be considered full-time staff rather than interns. Throughout this year we have lost a significant amount of monthly support due to individual circumstances of our supporters, and after reviewing our current financial support, we have made the decision through much prayer to postpone attending training until January 2011. This means that we will have the entire summer and fall semester to increasing our amount of ministry partners so that we are in a more stable financial situation to become full-time staff. Once school begins in the fall, we will spend a portion of our time on campus and the rest of our time raising support. We believe that the Lord has called us to change our original plans of going to training this summer in order to avoid putting our family through unnecessary financial hardship.

Because our position with Campus Crusade for Christ is something we plan to do long-term, we must now dedicate a majority of our time to increasing our monthly support so that we are in a healthy financial situation to continue to proclaim the Gospel among the students of Nebraska, and to build a life for our family within this ministry. Please be praying for us as we seek referrals and potential increases from current ministry partners, and develop new partners. If you have further questions about what you could be praying for in detail, or if you have prayer needs, please email us at one of our email addresses below.

Serving with you,




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