Life on Life with the Longs: July 2013

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Seeing the Impact of CO Global Conference...

What impact did this conference have in the lives of individual staff and teams? Here are a few glimpses of what some staff have been saying...

"It was one of the most humbling, edifying, and vision building experiences of my time on staff..."

"We are all so refueled and I feel like God reignited my heart for the Gospel going forth..."

"I'm excited and empowered to go back to the campus and give my life away..."

2013 Global Staff Conference Recap from Campus Outreach on Vimeo.

Click the image above to watch a brief conference recap video highlighting some of what God did last week!

Monday, July 29, 2013

CO Global Staff Conference Update

Thank you for your prayers last week for our Global Staff Conference. It was incredibly humbling, edifying and vision building to reflect on all that God has done and is doing through CO in the world. What a privilege we have to be a part of this work of building laborers on the campus to launch them into the world.

Pictured above are the 600+ Campus Outreach Staff from around the world who participated in last week's first-ever CO Global Staff Conference! Throughout the week, God continued to do "far more abundantly" than all that we were asking or thinking! John Piper, Frank Barker, Matt Chandler, and several CO Directors spoke during the main sessions about our CO Vision and Values:

Glorifying God
Compelled by God's Love and Committed to Following Hard after Christ
Believing in God's Promises and Praying for God's Action
Developing Leaders
Growth Through Multiplication
Reaching the Lost

Click here to watch Piper's, Barker's, and Chandler's messages to the staff. Great stuff!

God used the week in the lives of our staff to

Refocus us on the vision God has called us to,

Refuel us for the next season of life and ministry,

Relationally Connect with Him and with one another, and

Recommit to living lives abandoned to His glory.

It is so exciting to think about the Gospel influence these staff will have in the lives of thousands of students on the 94 campuses around the world where CO is engaged in evangelism and discipleship!

Click here to go to the 30 Days of Devotion flowing out of the conference.

Thank you for partnering with us in this great work!

Russell Long
Global Resource Team

Campus Outreach

Prayer Requests - Please Pray...

+ That God would guide us through wisdom and understanding to train our children in righteousness with grace and love.
+ That each of us would increasingly know, love, worship, and follow Jesus from the depth of our hearts.
+ That God would continue to use the ministry of Campus Outreach globally to Reach More Lost, Develop More Gospel-centered Leaders, and Mobilize More Laborers for His Glory!
+ That God would Multiply the Laborers of the Global Resource Center to stimulate health and growth among all the Campus Outreach Franchises and staff world-wide.

Upcoming Events...

+ May-August - Summer Training Projects - God is developing leaders and reaching the lost this summer as CO Kicks off over 23 Summer training projects across the USA and Puerto Rico, 16 Cross Cultural Projects overseas, and 4 Urban Projects in major US cities.
+ 5/26-29 - Pre-Deployment Training, We will be hosting 6 staff who will be deploying to serve God overseas. The training will focus around their identity in Christ, their servant's heart, perspectives, practical preparations, cultural intelligence and cultural communication.
+ 6/12 - World Cup kicks off in Brazil with Brazil vs Croatia at 3:00 PM CST on ESPN
+ 6/17-19 - Six Month Planning Retreat - All of our staff from the CO Global Resource Center will be getting away for a time of prayer, planning, and preparation as we look ahead to all that God has for us in ministry and service over the next six weeks.