Campus Missions Conference - A Chi Alpha Prayer

Jen and I are enjoying a great time of refreshing, training and fun in Phoenix, AZ at Chi Alpha's Campus Missions Conference. We are here with Chi Alpha missionaries and staff from 150+ different campuses. It's been a great couple of days so far.

At the opening session, Monday night, we were given a card with some data on campus evangelism and such. On the back of the card was Matthew 9:35-38 in the "Chi Alpha Translation". This moved me, and speaks powerfully towards God's heart for the universities:

Jesus went through all the colleges and universities, teaching in the classrooms, student centers, dorm lounges, free speech zones, the campus quads, rec centers, computer labs and coffee cafes, preaching the good news of the Kingdom and healing students with depression, sexual sin, anger, drug and alcohol abuse, brokenness, and low self-esteem. When he saw the students, he had compassion on them, because they were morally confused, religiously ignorant, and spiritually lost. Then he said to campus missionaries, "The campus mission field is immense, and the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest therefore to raise up and send out more campus missionaries."

We are so blessed to have a growing team of campus missionaries in New Orleans after years of prayer. Josh and Rachel Harvey are serving with us at Loyola. Christine Thrower is joining us at UNO, and two new Campus Missionaries in Training will join us at Tulane this year!

Please pray with us for the students and the campus mission field, in general, and for more laborers in New Orleans and around the nation and the world. (And be prepared, God might ask you to be the answer to your prayer.)