Back in the Saddle Again

I took a break from blogging this summer, in case you didn't notice :P

I'll write a blog on our summer Small Group and a blog on what's coming up on campus next week. I'll probably also fill you in on the books I've read this summer - so many good ones!

But right now, I'm at "Fund Development 201" for IV staff. We watched a video of Henri Nouwen speaking about how our identity is beloved children of God, not in what we do, what others say about us, or what we have. Instead of allowing an experience of imperfect love or lack of love turn into bitterness, we need to allow God to use it to prune us and bring us back to God's first love for us.

Tonight we'll contact people to see if they're interested in giving to what God's doing on campus. Pray for me that I'm bold, loving, and clear about my vision.

The Veritas Forum

The Veritas Forum just posted the recording of Os Guinness here at Texas A&M back in February. Here's the link. Let me know your thoughts!

I'd love for y'all to pray with me and for me during RecWeek, May 12-25. Students show up tonight! I'm so excited! We'll have 250 students each week at Camp Buckner near Austin, TX. A&M will be here the first week. Pray for love for one another and vision for next year. Pray also for 4 students from Stephen F. Austin who are planting a chapter, that my staff partner Ben and I are working with. Both weeks, I'll staff the Small Group Leader Track. We teach students how to lead Bible studies, create and shepherd missional community, and take risks in evangelism and prayer. Many students will lead their first Bible study and outreach at RecWeek. Pray for students to leave with the "heart and how-to" of being a Small Group Leader. Finally pray for staff. There's about 45 of us over the 2 weeks, and it's a lot of good, hard Kingdom work we'll be doing. Could you prayer Isaiah 30:15, 18 over us? I just finished setting up the book table and planning our evening fellowship times with Ben. Now I'm off to finish prepping a talk I'll give tomorrow on all the components of a good inductive, community-led Bible study.