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.)

July update

Well, Orientations are complete at Tulane. We met lots of incoming freshmen, and even got contact info from about 30 of them. We and our students will stay in touch with them as time for school to start approaches. At UNO we've got contact info from more than 50, and we have two more Orientations to go in July!

• Please pray for the incoming freshmen classes at Tulane, Loyola and UNO.

Last week, we had our first ever Chi Alpha New Orleans Support Banquet to raise funds for the upcoming year and cast vision for future growth and development. We raised $2500 and some monthly support for Chi Alpha. We are praying for more, but this was a good start for our first attempt.

• Please pray for the financial provision of all we need for Chi Alpha, for our personal support, and especially for Josh and Rachel's personal support, Christine's personal support, and the personal support raising of our two incoming Campus Missionaries in Training (affectionately known as interns), Rob and Ashley.

Next week we head to Phoenix, AZ for National Chi Alpha's Campus Missions Conference, followed by an exciting week of vacation in Sedona (including a visit to the Grand Canyon!)

Today is our 9th Wedding Anniversary. God is good!