Go Royals!
As part of celebrating Abbie’s parents’ anniversary, we all went to a Kansas City Royals baseball game. It was a great game, with a home run, some great hits, and even a double play that made it as the #1 play on ESPN the following day! Sadly, the home team lost, but it was still fun.
Kaufman Stadium.
Enjoying the game!
Abbie’s parents and brother, Dan at the game!
Highlight of the night: we made it onto the jumbo-tron at the game!
A Unique Opportunity for Our Nalchik Students!
Summer Project is a summer missions strategy used by Campus Crusade in Russia that is vital to the growth of campus movements! During these three weeks, students from all over Russia are trained in evangelism and discipleship, and are given ministry skills that will make them ministry leaders on their campuses. We are so excited that four key students from Nalchik have been accepted to go on this project: Nastya, Katya, Alyana and Aivar!
The students going on summer project from Nalchik represent amazing fruit in the ministry there. This past winter, after we left Nalchik, Alyana led her brother, Aivar to Jesus! Now, these two siblings are going together to learn how to become more effective witnesses for Christ on their campuses! Praise God! When we ask God for movements, this is what we are asking for! Local students are leading their peers to Christ, and those students are becoming witnesses for Christ.
Please keep these students in your most fervent prayers this summer. The project dates are July 1-21. Pray that these three weeks would bear fruit a hundredfold in these students’ lives, and that they would grow in their passion for Jesus, and for sharing Him with the lost!
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Knowledge of the Holy
As part of our ongoing training and development with Campus Crusade, we have a required summer reading list! Our first reading assignment was A.W. Tozer’s Knowledge of the Holy. Below are some of my thoughts as I read the book…
God has no need of me. Could there be a more important lesson and reminder for a young missionary? Tozer says, “I fear that thousands of younger persons enter Christian service from no higher motive than to help deliver God from the embarrassing situation His love has gotten Him into and His limited abilities seem unable to get Him out of” (pg 34).
My motives for doing my job say a great deal about what I believe about God. Do I believe that my service in full-time missions is somehow doing God a favor? Of course not. But I do think that I am in danger of the idea that if I didn’t do my job, it wouldn’t get done. I feel a great amount of urgency in fulfilling the Great Commission, in doing evangelism, in reaching the ends of the earth…but what is the source of my urgency? I fear that it is often a subconscious version of Tozer’s quote above.
But when I take time to meditate on the self-sufficiency of God, feelings of overwhelming humility and total insufficiency well up in me. This puts my ministry in proper perspective: I work urgently not from fear, not to save God embarrassment, and not to do that which He could not without my help. I work urgently from a heart obedient to the gracious, sovereign call of God to involve this clay pot in His work.
Happy Birthday Dave!
Last night we celebrated Abbie’s Dad’s birthday! We are in Kansas City for the next few weeks doing more ministry partner development, so it was fun to be able to celebrate with them!
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U-Haulin’ it Out of Here - Part 2
Our moving process began last Saturday, when we picked up our 17’ U-Haul truck and loaded our entire life into it!
Our moving adventure continued when, on Monday morning, we hooked up a car tow-dolly to the back of the U-haul to tow our car and headed eight hours south to our future place of residence, St. Louis!
In St. Louis, we spent a few hours unloading our U-Haul into a storage unit, and spent the night in St. Louis.
The next morning, we headed on to Kansas City feeling very light indeed--no trucks, no car-towing or anything! We plan to be in Kansas City for about a month, where we will continue our ministry partner development before reporting to St. Louis!