Fall Retreat 2011 ~ There are a lot of future world changers in this picture! Praise the Lord for beautiful weather, great worship, food and teaching. Read Jody’s summary along with student quotes here!
Fall Retreat!
Summer Project Stat’s
Our national headquarter just released some statistics on the Cru summer projects which include the Lake Tahoe summer project that we helped lead. Praise the Lord with me!
By the numbers, here is a picture of what God did:
Students Sent: 3297
Total Projects: 224
Personal Evangelism: 40,817
Decisions: 2722
Group Evangelism: 28,388
Decisions: 2966
Media Evangelism: 50,505
Decisions: 2490
The first ever Fiji Summer Project (photo) saw 168 Fijians receive Christ!
What the numbers don’t say…
“From Day 1 I was immersed in the most loving community I’ve ever had” San Diego Summer Project
“I am excited to reach out to freshmen and show them what it looks like to have a flourishing relationship with God and what it looks like to be women of God.” Grand Traverse Bay
“We shared with Diana on project, and she met with us for all ten follow ups! Before we left project, she was sharing the Gospel with her friends and leading one of them through the follow ups. I mean you hear all the time about God using you if you let Him, but I actually saw it and experienced it and it was so cool to know that the Holy Spirit was working through me!” Guayaquil, Equador.
Portland State University Prayer Requests
Please pray for these things. It is a critical time of year for us as the school year begin at Portland State! Almost 30 thousad students will be on campus next week!
- Pray for the 100 plus contacts we already have from freshman orientations. Pray for open hearts to the message of Jesus.
- Pray for Move-In day this saturday (Sept 17th). Our staff team, student leaders and volunteers will be moving students in on campus.
- Pray for Cru promotional activities Mon-Wed. Pray for hundreds of conversations. Pray for new students to get involved. Pray for favor among the administration.
- Pray for our Cru Party on Tuesday night (Sept 20th). Pray for 50 freshman to attend!
- Pray for our first Downtown Cru meeting on Wednesday (Sept 21st). Pray for tons of new faces and that they would be captured by the vision of loving God and helping others to know him!
- Pray for our Beach trip on Saturday (Sept 24th), that new students would connect and get more plugged in to Christ centered community.
Thanks for praying for us and our team. We covet your prayers as we labor to make Christ known here!
A new school year
We’re off an running with the school year. Our semester schools have started included University of Portland and Washington State – Vancouver! Our staff team will be spending significant time on those campuses this week including helping the student leaders meet hundreds of new students at the club fair in Vancouver on tuesday of this week. Pray for us!
We’re home!
After 2 months on the road, we’re home!
We had an amazing summer in Lake Tahoe, where we saw tons of growth in the lives of students, our staff as well as ourselves. What a privilege it was to serve. The highlight for me was watching student after student be baptized on the 4th of July. With over 1/3 of the project being new believers it was such a picture of life change. I wish you all could have seen it.
Don’t forget to check out our most recent newsletter and stay in touch.
We’ll be doing our best to connect with a lot of our ministry partners of the next few weeks before school starts. Thanks so much for your prayers.
Matt
New Name, Same Mission
We’re currently at our biannual national staff conference where it was just announced that the name of Campus Crusade for Christ will be officially changed to Cru. It’s an intriguing process that is weighty and has a huge impact on lowering the barrier for us to talk about Jesus in the Portland area. We’re cautiously optimistic about the name change. You can read more about the decision here!
If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to ask us. Rest assured that we will still be taking the message of Christ to the heart of the campuses of Portland on the way to reaching the world for Christ!
Lake Tahoe Update
Greeting from 6200 feet above sea level in beautiful South Lake Tahoe, California! 71 students plus 37 staff and student staff are experiencing God, the mission, and roaming black bears while on the Lake Tahoe Summer Project right now!
More than one-third of the students on project this summer gave their life to the Lord within the past year. Now for the first time, many of them are experiencing Biblical community and the joy of communicating to others what God has done in their life. Within the first two weeks we’ve already seen students making drastic changes to their lives and take huge steps of faith!
The best is yet to come with an ice cream slip and slide, the fourth of July outreach and project turnover right around the corner. We’re dreaming that this summer would launch students on a new trajectory of serving the Lord for the next 50 years of their lives! Maybe some of these students will be on your staff team in the future!
April Newsletter
Our April Newsletter is freshly baked! Get a glimpse of what went on during spring break, hear about our Lake Tahoe plans and please pray for us for key events!
We love our ministry partners! Thanks so much for investing in the lives of college students. It’s worth it! Please let us know you’re reading this and comment on this post. We love to hear from you.
