I’m excited to let you know that the Information Technology team is now a team of two! Ryan Menzer was the percussionist for blue sky nine and was ready for a change. Everyone agreed that he would be a great fit in IT, and it’s working out well. He’s already finished some projects that I hadn’t been able to focus on.
Even with Ryan, though, we know that there are more computer needs at Keynote than the two of us can handle. Our plan is to train a person in each Keynote team or department to be the “level 1 tech” for that team. Please pray that we can communicate clearly and encourage people throughout this process. Please also pray that I lead and teach Ryan well.
In addition to being Keynote’s IT Director, I’m also part of a new team called “Keynote New Media Labs”. Our purpose is to help other Campus Crusade for Christ ministries use the Internet more creatively and effectively. We are starting to build a library of resources at www.mediaforministry.org. We’ve also helped the ministry at the University of Iowa create a new web site so that students, leaders, and even alumni and parents can stay more connected:
One of the staff from Iowa wrote this to Sam on our team: “to say thank you doesn’t even begin to express how thankful I am to what you have done for us. The site looks amazing and you’ve given us the tools to maintain it as well. Sam you have been so giving and helpful to us! Thanks for setting us up for a huge win on our campus in reaching students more effectively online at iowa!”
Please pray that God would lead us to the best tools and strategies, and that we would be able to connect people in the wide world of Campus Crusade for Christ who are also developing new ideas.
Personally, Liesl has had a hard time as the allergy doctor has made major changes to her diet. No more dairy, sugar, vinegar, or a bunch of other things. We’re hoping for health benefits eventually, but for now it’s been very difficult with no apparent benefits. We appreciate your prayers!
Each year Open Doors releases the World Watch List, a detailed analysis of Christian persecution worldwide. In this free resource, countries are evaluated and ranked according to the severity of persecution that occured in the past year.
Hey, Y’all! With today being the last day of school before Thanksgiving break our house is full of thankful energy! Seriously, though, we have so many things to be thankful for and wanted to share just a few of them with you.
First and foremost, we are thankful for our Lord. Every earthly and spiritual blessing we all experience comes from Him. Every comfort in trials, every hope for the future, and we want to honor Him by acknowledging that He is truly worthy of our loyalty and respect.
Next most dear to our hearts is our family. I am so thankful to have a husband who has chosen to love the sometimes very unlovable me as Christ has loved the church. I am so thankful to have the privilege of mothering our little girl and see God grow her into the young lady He is developing her to be.
Dr. Kim
And we are so thankful to have been given the privilege of serving God with Campus Crusade for Christ for all these years. We recently learned that Dr. Joon Gon Kim, our national director for Korea for over 40 years, had passed away. This man barely lived through two wars and suffered greatly, yet he grew with God to become one of the most outstanding Christian leaders Korea (and the world) has ever seen.
The effects of his faith and leadership and God’s Spirit resulted in 100,000 people committing to being involved in missions at the World Evangelism Crusade in 1980. In 2001, a survey was done and discovered that 80 percent of all people working in missions departments of Korean churches had been involved in Korea Campus Crusade for Christ. God chooses to show His power when His people act in faith and Dr. Kim has left a great legacy of faith for all of us to follow.
The last thing I’ll share is how thankful we are for you! God uses you to provide for our family and enable us to serve with Campus Crusade for Christ. We can’t say often enough how grateful we are for your generosity to provide for our financial needs, for all of your prayer cover and the encouragement we receive every time we think of you. We pray God would bless you with every spiritual blessing as He has promised and that you, too, will see God work a legacy of faith in your lives.
In light of that, we wanted to offer a gift of sorts to those of you who are married. In the past we’ve sent out brochures for our FamilyLife Conferences (Weekend to Remember). The reality is that marriage can be a lot of work sometimes, and we are concerned for how many Christians are throwing in the towel. Whether yours is doing great or on the rocks or anywhere in between, this kind of conference can be a great time for you to really connect with each other and see God work in your lives. FamilyLife is allowing us to offer to our supporters the opportunity to attend these conferences at a discount and so we couldn’t pass up sharing it with you! You can attend for only $69/person — almost half off the regular rate. There are over 100 conferences across the U.S. Contact us if you’re interested in the promotional code. Your marriage is worth it!
Just wanted to let you know that we now have the archive video of the Keynote Vision Dinner available for you to watch at your convenience. Visit Keynote’s new blog – www.keynoteconnection.org and click on the Vision Dinner 2009 tab to view the event (or click on the picture below).
Once you hit the play button the video begins automatically. If you would like to skip around during the video, you’ll need to wait until the entire video loads (you can see a progress bar below the video). Otherwise you should be able to view everything normally.
Enjoy learning about what God is doing in and through Keynote!
Here’s a great video that some of my coworkers created. I love it because it expresses the vision that we have of how Keynote can equip people to reach their world for Christ.
