McComas Ministry

Today was a historic day.

We got about the business of launching the ministry at Portland State University today. By the way, PSU is the largest university in Oregon and the third largest in all of our Campus Crusade region, behind U. of Washington and U. of Utah. Didn’t know that, did you?

We started with a short discussion on this powerful article by Tim Keller to give us a framework for our heart to see this urban campus transformed. Keller’s stuff is what pushed me toward making the decision to move to Portland. For Keller fan boys, here’s a link of all his stuff.

Then believing God to breakthrough on campus in powerful ways we braved 97 degree temperature and pounded the streets for information. Joined by five of the regional office interns today that will be working with us 1 day a week this fall we gathered information that will shape our initiatives, outreaches and strategies.

Looking forward to the day when at PSU there is a community where the gospel captures hearts, transforms lives, and launches men and women into a lifelong adventure with Jesus Christ.

Family Life, which is a ministry under the umbrella of Campus Crusade for Christ, is offering it’s Weekend to Remember Conferences available at $69/person, almost half off the regular rate. This price is available to our family member and our ministry partners. Jody and I along with Jody’s parents attended one of these years ago and loved it! I highly recommend them. I also recommend bringing your friends, heck get a group together and go!

They have a ton of locations all over the U.S. For more info check out their site. If you’re interested in send me an email and I’ll give you the promotional code.

If you’re like us then you’re praying for the nation of Haiti in their hour of need and wondering what you can do to help.

You can  contribute directly to relief work in the area through Global Aid Network (GAiN), the relief and development  arm of Campus Crusade for Christ. GAiN already has containers with 1 million meals in it in Haiti and eight more containers of food and critically needed supplies ready to ship to Haiti.  GAiN’s primary need at the moment is financial resources to distribute the goods they have to the people of Haiti.