Praise Report & Prayer Requests

Thank You Jesus for Changing lives!

Please celebrate with us and praise the Lord for His great blessings! This summer God is transforming thousands of lives and developing leaders around the world through numerous summer training projects. Campus Outreach is investing in the lives of students on over:

• 29 Summer Training Projects across the US and Puerto Rico
• 26 Cross Cultural Outreach Projects around the world &
• 6 Urban Development Projects across the US.

> Pray for the many young believers who are investing their summer in growing in their own relationship with Christ and learning to to effectively share their faith and walk in fellowship with their brothers and sisters in Christ. Pleas pray that they would follow Jesus, and He "would make them fishers of men." (Mark 1:17)

> Pray for the many young leaders who are learning to pour their lives into others as they lead discipleship groups and individually challenge others to grow in Christ. (2 Tim 2:1-2)

> Pray for all of the students that God would use these experiences to stretch their view of God, themselves, and the world. Pray God would give them His vision of and heart for the world!

> Pray for the many people who will hear the gospel through these students this summer. Pray that the Gospel will take root and bring forth the fruit of eternal life in their hearts. Pray God will raise up laborers for His harvest (Matt. 9:35-38)

Six Month Planning

Please pray with us this week as our staff team from the CO Global Resource Center will be getting away for an important time of Prayer, Planning, and Training. Pray God will develop us all through this time and lead us into all He has planned for us!

Thank you for partnering with us to help make this possible!

 
Russell & Wendy Long
Global Resource Center
Campus Outreach

Follow Up From the Leadership Conferences

Thank you for your prayers! The training went well last week! God is so good! We had leaders from San Diego to Washington DC and Minneapolis to  Houston. I am so thankful to God and His faithfulness who has raised up laborers from the campus who are serving him full-time advancing the Kingdom across the world. We also had three staff in from three of our international teams in Brazil, thailand and South Africa. Thank you for your partnership in developing these key leaders!

Beyond time on our vision and values we invested focus time to help our young leaders understand that their growth as a leader will be shaped by their growth in three key areas:

• Service
• Leadership
• Management

These three areas are all linked together and each affect the other like legs on a three legged stool. If you remove one the others will suffer. If you strengthen in one and don't develop in the others you become out of balance and it will limit your influence over time. God has created it that way and Christ is our perfect example of these areas.

We also invest a good portion of our time helping them evaluate where they are and where their region is to identify the next developmental steps for them. Coming out of this time each region developed key developmental goals for this year that would truly push God's mission to build labors on the campus for the lost world forward in every area.

Please continue praying with us as we seek to help every CO graduate from every campus mobilize into strategic next steps after college! This week (Wed & Thur)  I will be visiting Berry College up in Rome, GA casting vision for service in God's kingdom through your gifts and talents beyond your college years. We are so thankful for the growth of every believer while in college, but the real impact is through the multiplied lives they will lead and impact for a life time!

Thanks for your partnership!

What's Your View of God?

As our ministry prepares to launch a team into San Diego, California they interviewed some students they met on campus during their initial visit at San Diego State University. It is sobering to see the reality of their view of God. This is very representative of current student views not only in California but at most universities across the country as well.

"...The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest." Matthew 9:37

Pray with us that God will continue to raise up laborers from the campus for the lost world! Pray for us as we help launch new ministry teams in San Diego, St. Louis, Dallas/Fort Worth, and Houston this year.

Mobilization and Vision Update

As a ministry we seek to help graduates multiply their lives in the context of the lost world as part of a missional community in accordance with their SHAPE and in continuing partnership with CO.

Mobilization and Vision Snapshot from Campus Outreach on Vimeo.

Please pray for us as we seek to mobilize more graduates into fruitful ministry beyond the campus. We are praying that we could offer different 1 to 2 year mobilization tracks for every student as they graduate to help them transition from campus to life & ministry beyond.

Thanks for your prayers!
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