Spring Break Has New Meaning
Big Break was a wonderful and tiring experience for our family. Zack and I both worked really hard, but we were blessed the gorgeous view from our condo (pictured above).
Big Break was a national evangelism training conference, with about 2,500 people attending during the three weeks we were there. In total, there were 8,120 spiritual conversations (like the one pictured below), 3,858 gospel presentations, and 504 people who accepted Christ!
Every night after a day of outreach, there was a sharing time. Students got up and told story after story of taking steps of faith for Christ (even though they were scared), God leading them to Divine appointments, and people’s hearts opening to the love of Christ. Behind every single number listed above there is an incredible story. These stories had a huge, positive impact on Annalei and Miah. We would pray for Cru students in the afternoons, and then hear about people coming to Christ in the evenings. Both Annalei and Miah are much more excited to share their faith now.
Even though this was not a Bridges event, we were happy to see international students attend. A Chinese international student named “Darlene” got up in front of everyone at the conference and shared about how she had come to Christ the night before!
We also loved Byron’s story. He is a college student from Arkansas. Last year, he came to Panama City Beach to party. He “ran into the Cru Brotherhood” and got saved during an afternoon outreach. This year, he attended Big Break and learned how to share his faith!
Nine New Campuses!
Thanks so much for your prayers for my Bridges Seminar. For all three weeks that I put it on, it went really well. I had about 25 interested students (or staff) attend each week.
Bridges is not on nearly as many campuses as Cru is, so I was the most excited to find interested students where we currently have no ministry to internationals. As a result of my seminar, there is now the possibility of Bridges starting on nine new campuses!
Digital Outreach
Sharing with strangers takes a big step of faith, but for some it is even harder to share with loved ones. At Big Break, the students had an afternoon of “digital outreach.” They were challenged to share a powerful short film called “Falling Plates” with friends or family.
One gal talked about how she had grown up without a lot of contact with her father. She shared the film with him and was able to lead him to Christ! Another guy shared about how showing the film to a friend, who then in turn showed it to her uncle, ended up stopping the uncle from committing suicide that night!!
Please check out fallingplates.com and feel free to use this film to initiate spiritual conversations with friends or family. And please let us know if you do! We would love to pray for you and your loved ones.
Oh, Canada!
We head to Vancouver, BC on Saturday for our Bridges staff conference. It is designed to encourage and refresh our staff. Zack has quite a bit of work before we leave. Please pray for extra strength and health for him. Our family has battled a lot of sickness lately.
Upcoming
We will be at the BUILD, our Bridges national staff conference that exists to encourage us and develop us as we pursue our mission of pointing international students to Jesus. The conference is in Vancouver, Canada from 4/9-15. The theme of the conference is “Sent Ones.”
Praise Reports
•504 new Brothers and Sisters in Christ!
•Big Break attendees took amazing steps of faith
•My Bridges seminar went really well!
•Cassia slept very well in the new environment
Prayer Requests
•504 new believers to grow in their faith
•The Big Break students to continue to share their faith
•Students from the 9 new campuses would indeed launch Bridges movements
•Good health and safe travels for our family
•God’s protection over the BUILD production team
•BUILD would be an encouraging, restful time for us and for all Bridges staff