27th February 2007, 09:57 am
This letter is available as a .pdf here.
I’m very encouraged by what’s been happening lately with Campus Crusade’s ministry on the Internet. We’ve written previously about http://www.everystudent.com/, where students can explore questions about life and God and can respond to the gospel. Last Fall there were about 300,000 visits per month to the site. The EveryStudent.com team has been challenged to figure out how to get 1 million visits per month.
What happens when someone responds to the Gospel? Recently a new site was launched called StartingWithGod.com. This site is full of articles to help build a new Christian’s faith, and offers to connect the new Christian with a volunteer via email. People who responded to Campus Crusade’s full page USA Today Super Bowl ad were also directed to this site.
What about all the non-English speakers of the world? EveryStudent.com has turned into a family of web sites that is expanding all the time. The latest addition is EveryStudent.ro (Romanian). KazdyStudent.pl (Polish) and SekojStudent.com (Macedonian) will soon be launched.
Pray along with us that God would use these sites to take the gospel to the students of the world. And thank you for your prayers for our database team—they recently expanded our main database system to 5 servers, and it’s working well.
Please also continue to pray that God takes us through the grief of miscarriage. We know that He is faithful and loving, but it’s hard.
21st February 2007, 03:38 pm
Korea Campus Crusade for Christ is planning a huge student mission conference in Korea in July. “CM2007 is Campus Crusade for Christ’s first global student missions conference. It will be a historic event with three primary themes: Christ Magnified, Connected Movements, and Completing the Mission.”
- Christ Magnified – Surrender to the Lordship of Christ
- Connected Movements – A global community of staff leaders and
campus students
- Completed Mission – Reaching the unreached world and preparing a
new generation of spiritual movement builders.
The organizers are expecting 15,000 to 20,000 students to attend!
Learn more about it, watch promotional videos, and download prayer requests at www.cm2007.net.
8th February 2007, 11:49 am
Keith tells about the results (as of Tuesday) of the Super Bowl ad:? 934 decisions for Christ!
Read his post for more exciting information.
5th February 2007, 02:32 pm
(This newsletter is available as a pdf here)
As you can see, our January newsletter is coming out a bit late. We’ve had a very eventful month and didn’t know until this morning what this letter would contain. The month started out well with a visit up north, where we were blessed to see some of you. Then, of course, The Gators became National Champs, which brought much happiness to the Bucks and Kraniches. Then we came home and found out we were finally pregnant. All seemed to be going well. We’d had an early ultrasound a couple of weeks ago to confirm that it wasn’t in a tube like last time. I felt like I was having a normal pregnancy.
However, this morning we were having a 7 week ultrasound to check on the baby and there was no baby in the sac. It was a painful shock. We’d planned on making a very happy announcement to you all today, and suddenly everything has changed. We hurt, badly, but we KNOW in our hearts that God is sovereign AND God is good. He is not cruel or uncaring. This would not be happening if there was another way. We don’t have to know why to know that God can and will work this for good for those who love Him, not just in our lives, but in how He uses things in the body of Christ and to draw others to Him.
Please pray that our thoughts would not allow seeds of doubt and distrust in and that we would grieve well. Please pray for the physical side of all this since I’m still pregnant and have a miscarriage ahead of me. Anja seems to be taking it in stride (she was there for the ultrasound), but we would all love your prayers. And of course, this means we still have infertility to deal with again after all. Our hearts just hurt.
Continue reading ‘“January” update’ »
1st February 2007, 11:11 pm
I just found out that the full-page ad that will appear in USA Today is online here, and it will point people to the web site www.beyondtheultimate.org.
Here are some ways that you can participate:
- Encourage everyone you know to visit the Web site www.BeyondTheUltimate.org
- Post a copy of the USA Today ad on your church bulletin board
- Bring a copy of the ad to your Super Bowl party
- Email others to let them know about this opportunity
- Pray for many people to experience God’s love and forgiveness
