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Please pray for:

Wisdom with when/if we should pursue buying a newer vehicle

We need to see $1,900 in new monthly support to have our needs continue to be met

Mikayla to get over her cold, diaper rash and through her teething

Not to have a repeat of last year’s hurricane season!

Some blood work Heather had done showed an abnormal level for her thyroid and we need more tests

Praise:

Safe travel, and the car made it back home

Being able to see many friends and family

Great tenants who took care of our home while we were away

August 9, 2005

Home Sweet Home

After two months of traveling to visit family, support partners, friends, and attend the National Staff Conference for Campus Crusade we arrived home on August 4. It’s nice to be able to sleep in our own bed again! As I (Heather) went into Mikayla’s room I felt like so much has changed—we took a baby with us on our trip and brought home a little girl who is crawling, pulling up, and eating some solids with her new teeth!

Highlights of our trip: reintroducing Mikayla to her grandparents, and watching their delight in her; seeing friends as we traveled; sharing how God is using staff and students involved with Campus Crusade to reach others; sharing a doublewide mobile home with another staff family; Mikayla traveling well and giving big smiles to those she met; hearing from our leadership, that the best is yet to come.

Lowlights: 4,800 miles in the car; passing about 1,000 cornfields; our car needing some major repairs in Colorado (about $900 worth); Heather getting sick; Mikayla getting her first cold; still needing to see $1,900 in monthly support to be raised up.

Holy Dissatifaction

Of the many people we heard speak during the staff conference, one favorite was a staff member who worked at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He shared how they had a decent group of students, but that half the students at the university were ethnic and how that was not reflected in their movement. He started asking, “Would anyone besides the people coming to our meetings notice if we left? Are we really making a difference on the campus? How can we change that?” He shared how they started trying different things, serving the other students, making efforts to connect with the Hispanic students in ways that were inviting to them. They took risks, did things they had never tried before like going to people’s music recitals, and entering a float for homecoming. And God worked.

His dissatisfaction with the norm turned into a passion to see every student on campus have a chance to hear the gospel.Can you imagine what it would be like to turn on the news and hear the Good News? To see people reaching out to one another? For Jesus to not be a swear word! To not just go through our daily routine but to live like heaven is real, and so is hell?! That’s why we are on staff, not so a few students can have a Bible study when they go to college, but that we can see lives changed because they have met and have a relationship with Christ. Thanks for partnering with us to reach every student.