1st September 2010, 08:32 am
Love and Marriage… Love and Marriage…
We’ve been thinking a lot about marriages lately. We’ve watched several people we know get engaged this summer, and seen them seek to build strong, healthy relationships from the start. We’ve also seen other marriages that have hit bumps in the road or have even fallen apart.
No one is immune to troubles, and as Christians we need to regularly and repeatedly seek God in growing our marriages, not tearing them down.
One tool Campus Crusade offers to all of us is the FamilyLife Marriage Conferences. The Weekend to Remember emphasizes a commitment to God’s timeless blueprints for marriage, communi-cation and commitment, romance and resolving conflict. Projects help couples focus on each other and resources are available to take home with you to continue the process.
If you are looking for a weekend getaway for you and your spouse, or find yourself living a life of isolation in your marriage…if you want to point a hurting couple toward help…if you would like to be catalysts for family or friends or church members in equipping homes to be all that God intends… go to www.familylife.com. You will find dates and locations and lots of other info there.
Consider:
Statistics show one in every two marriages fail. Divorce touches us all.
Is God bringing to mind a couple or family in need of help?
Might you be that couple? Does your marriage seem headed down the wrong track?
Are you financially able to scholarship a couple in distress who cannot afford the cost of the conference?
Can you be that person in your church or business that organizes a group to attend a local conference?
Are you blessed with a terrific marriage? Thank the Lord now for your spouse!!
Our Family
has had a lot to be thankful for. Anja just started 3rd grade this month and turned 9 yesterday! We love this blessing of a young lady God has entrusted to us and are praying for wisdom as we seek to teach her how to connect with God personally and grow to love Him, not just His blessings (something we keep working on ourselves). We are thankful for 12 years of marriage as well and for the privilege of serving God with Keynote these last couple of years. And so we are grateful for your partnership with us! God bless you all!
30th July 2010, 04:03 pm
On Tuesday night, we celebrated what God did through the Keynote and Impact Movement Summer Project bands. The bands travelled 20,200 miles to perform 79 concerts in front of 9,008 people. But most importantly, 1,048 people said that they began a relationship with Jesus!
Students and staff shared what God has taught them this summer:
- Our talents and even our voices are not our own – they are tools to bring glory to God
- Everything we have is a gift from God
- He doesn’t need us, but He chooses to use us
- Everything we do, even how we set up and tear down before and after concerts, can show people that God is in us
- Learning to tell our God stories for tour is preparation for being ready to tell our God stories for the rest of our lives
- God doesn’t want us to fix our lives before we come to Him – we come broken to the One who fixes lives
Thank you for praying for the Summer Project, and thank you for your partnership in ministry with us!
Summer Project Concerts
9th July 2010, 10:14 am
The Peoples Connection was formed by a group of ministries that wants to encourage American Christians to reach their neighbors who are from other countries.
Among other resources, they offer DVDs that contain the JESUS Film in many languages. For example, the “All Nations ‘JESUS’ DVD: Middle Eastern Languages” contains the film in 16 languages: Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian, English, Farsi, French, Hausa, Indonesian, Kurdish (Behdini), Kurdish (Sorani), Punjabi, Russian (Central Asian), Somali, Turkish, Urdu, and Uyghur.
Check out this wonderful ministry at www.reachingthenationsamongus.org.
30th June 2010, 02:42 pm
New iPhone App Puts Evangelistic Tools at Your Fingertips
Keynote’s New Media Labs (which includes Karl) has developed an official Campus Crusade for Christ iPhone app. God Tools puts classic resources like Knowing God Personally, Satisfied? and the Four Spiritual Laws booklet directly onto your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. The app also includes a searchable library of questions from EveryStudent.com, and, for a limited time, a mobile version of Soularium, A Dialogue in Images. It’s available for free in the iTunes store. If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, give it a try!
We’re already trying to figure out how to improve it and create similar tools for more kinds of mobile devices. Please join us in praying for this effort!
Summer Project Students Preparing to Tour
The Keynote Summer Project students, who have been here since June 7, are in their final week of rehearsals before going on tour. The four Keynote bands, along with the Impact Movement’s Level 3:16, will take the gospel to prisons, military bases, and other Campus Crusade for Christ summer project locations.
You can watch the dress rehearsals live online at www.keynotesummerproject.org/live on July 4, 5, and 6 at 7pm Eastern (the time is approximate — doors open at 6:30 with bands performing around 7)
Please pray that the bands would be ready and that God would use them to change lives for His glory!
3rd June 2010, 08:06 am
From: Marilyn
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 11:50 AM
To: Chris, Karl, Jonathan
Subject: RE: Site is up….almost.
I LOVE WORKING WITH ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All the redirects seem to be working.
The Live Chat is working.
The AR signups all look good.
I am sooooooooooo impressed.
Geographic sites are working as they were. That’s fine.
I’ll get the descriptions to you soon. (I’ll work on them now.)
YOU GUYS ARE INCREDIBLE. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Marilyn
p.s. I don’t speak in superlatives often.
This was the email Karl and the guys received after helping upgrade one of the Christian growth websites, www.startingwithgod.com. This site is open for everyone and is a great tool for all of us if we are helping a new believer learn about their relationship with God. We’d love to have you check it out. Let us know what you think!
Besides the tech work Karl does, Keynote has had a couple of other major things happening this month. First, the 2010 Keynote Golf Challenges have come and gone. 67 individuals raised sponsorship to play, caddie or volunteer for the two events and raised more than $118,000! We are so grateful to all those who contributed their time, effort, prayers and finances to make these days a success.
Secondly, Summer Project students will be showing up in a week! Already, most of our staff have switched hats from their regular jobs to prepare to organize and lead the summer bands, train and disciple the students, and send them out on tours across the country. Last years’ summer project saw over 800 decisions for Christ, and that doesn’t even measure the personal growth the students experience as they step out in faith and see God use them. Please pray for the 25 students showing up in June and for the people they will come into contact with on tour in July.
And since Friday was the last day of school, our family is transitioning to summer mode as well. Pray that we would make good use of the time as a family (summer project time can be a great time to get our staff kids involved, but it also means I don’t have kid free time to do ministry in the office. It’s different, but good). Thanks y’all, and we pray you have a wonderful summer ahead as well.