Karl & Liesl Kranich

Tim Keller wrote an excellent article for the Spring edition of Leadership Journal titled, “The Gospel in All its Forms“.

I’ll just tease you with the last paragraph:

Today there are many who doubt that there is just one gospel. That gives them the warrant to ignore the gospel of atonement and justification. There are others who don’t like to admit that there are different forms to that one gospel. That smacks too much of “contextualization,” a term they dislike. They cling to a single presentation that is often one-dimensional. Neither of these approaches is as true to the biblical material, nor as effective in actual ministry, as that which understands that the Bible presents one gospel in several forms.

Athletes in Action’s successful outreach web site has been retooled for the Summer Olympics. With a new look and testimonies from some of this year’s olympians, AIA is hoping to expose the estimated 4 billion worldwide spectators to the gospel. Help spread the word on your personal blog or Web site by linking to www.beyondtheultimate.org.

Campus Crusade has also recently expanded the number of discipleship materials available in the Training and Growth section of www.ccci.org.  Check out the Transferable Concepts and other classic CCC resources.

While you’re at www.ccci.org, read about the exciting happenings from summer mission projects around the world.

Hey, Y’all!

This is my first time writing from Indiana.  As you can tell by the “y’all”, I’m not totally acclimated to being a Hoosier yet, but we are so happy to be here.  Some praises include:

• safe travel for us all as we drove across the country.  We knew the furniture wouldn’t come quickly, so we took a slower pace and let Anja have her first Smoky Mountains experience as well as Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.
• When we got here, Anja was able to jump right in to the same VBS program she had to miss when we left Florida!  What a blessing for her to have fun with kids learning about God that first week here.
• Our stuff was delayed but finally got here this past Monday and so far almost nothing’s been broken
• Our Florida house just closed on Thursday!!!  What a huge blessing.

We’ve been keeping very busy between Karl working at the office and both of us working hard at settling in and learning where to find things here in town (Karl’s already a regular at Lowes).  We still need to study for our drivers’ license tests, and a bunch of other stuff, so you could pray for good time management and prioritizing for both of us.  Also, Karl brought a cold home and gave it to me, so we’d love to get better without needing to put finding a doctor 1st on our list of things to do.

Now for some of what’s happening at Keynote!  I was going to write this myself, but this e-mail we got said it better so here goes…

First, Keynote is a crazy place these days!  As I write, we have 2 bands rehearsing and preparing music for overseas trips – one heading to New Zealand and one to Israel!  Yesterday (June 17th), 75 students arrived to begin what we hope will be one of the greatest adventures of their lives.  Keynote will have 5 bands (plus a media team and a film team), Impact will have 2 bands… here we go!

Think about this for a moment: last summer we shared the Gospel with nearly 6000 people and saw 248 indicated decisions for Christ – with only 5 bands.  With 7 bands heading out this summer (11 including the international teams and the office teams), we can only wonder what God might do! PLEASE be praying for God to do amazing things and change many lives this summer – ours as well as those with whom we share the Gospel.

Our welcome dinner was with the summer project students.  One of the bands, called Destino, focuses on reaching the Latin community and I discovered that one of the students goes to UF (Go Gators!) and another, Andrea, is here from Argentina and is the product of ministry of a couple of friends of mine who were CCC staff at UF when I was a student.  Later they moved to Argentina and the rest is history.   Who knows what lasting fruit will come from these students this summer?

Thanks for your love and support for us in so many ways.  God bless you!

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We are finally on the move! It’s been five months of Orlando house prep, showing, support raising, and packing, and the end is here. The picture above is the Keynote office in Westfield, Indiana, where I (Karl) am writing this letter and waiting to close the deal on our new Indiana home on June 6.

After closing and a few days of working on the house, I’ll fly back to Orlando for some final packing and then the movers will arrive on June 11. Liesl, Anja, and I will say goodbye to our Orlando home and take our minivan north.

We’d appreciate your prayers for the travel and all of the other details—it has already been an adventure. Last Wednesday, Liesl and I left Orlando at 6:44am in our Chevy Prizm and planned to drive 16 hours straight to southern Indianapolis. We had just made it into southern Indiana when the oil pressure light started flickering and then lit steadily. We had enough oil and were not overheating, but decided that it was not worth losing the engine to make it to our hotel. We drove a few more miles and then got a different hotel for the night. The next morning, AAA towed the car to a mechanic near the Keynote office, and we were able to borrow a car for the day. We made it to our new house orientation meeting, which went well. We’re thankful that the car trouble didn’t cause more problems.

Please pray:

1. that we would remember all of the details that need to be taken care of in Florida and Indiana, and not be affected too much by stress.
2. for a smooth transition for Anja.
3. for safe travel.
4. for the sale of our Orlando house to complete soon (buyer financing has been delayed).

Thank you for your partnership with us in this adventure!