Important Need...

As most of you know Wendy and I are funded in the ministry through financial support from individuals and churches. Our supporters are our ministry partners! Without them we could not do the ministry we do, yet through our partnership they have the unique privilege to partner with us in developing and mobilizing gospel-centered kingdom leaders and movements around the world! 

The past year has been a difficult year for our faithful support team (job losses, business difficulties, healthcare changes, etc...). Due to our low support levels we are currently in a salary reduction situation where we are only able to receive 1/5 our normal salary. We are constantly reminded that all our provisions come from the hand of the Lord and we are learning to be content in whatever our circumstances!

Would you pray with us for God to continue to raise up the families and churches He would desire to partner with us in developing and mobilizing gospel-centered kingdom leaders and movements? I am currently meeting with families and churches to share about what God is doing through Campus Outreach and how they can partner with us in this! We are trusting God for 27 more families or churches to partner with us at $100 per month or the annual equivalent to reach full funding again! We know God may lead some to do more and others less, but all sacrificial gifts are a fragrant offering before the Lord.

If you would like to make a gift you can access My Personal Donation Page by clicking make a gift.

If you are already a current ministry partner you may click HERE and choose New User Registration at the bottom. Once setup, our financial ofice will link this new online account with your current giving account. Once activated you will be able to view your giving history, update personal information, adjust your giving options, and many other features.

Thank you so much for your partnership with us and Campus Outreach to Glorify God by Building Laborers on the Campus for the Lost World!

Training and Preparing Teams...

It was such an encouraging week to be with these young graduates who have committed to serve the Lord through Short Term International Teams (STINT). This is an opportunity Campus Outreach is developing to help mobilize trained graduates into strategic two year international ministry opportunities around the world. We met with teams preparing for deployment to Malaysia, Kenya, and Thailand.

Please pray for these teams as they prepare to deploy to some of the world's difficult places where the Gospel message is opposed at every point.

Pray as well for the crops of students to follow them. We are trusting God for 200 students a year to be mobilized into these strategic STINT opportunities. Pictured above was a meeting with some of the students in the Raleigh, NC area who are interested in considering a STINT upon graduation.

Summer of Impact...

Summer is such a busy time for Campus Outreach and this year is no exception. God is blessing us with much growth and development this summer. We are blessed with over 2,300 students on Summer Leadership Training Projects, International Projects, and Cross-Cultural Projects in the US and around the world this summer. What a privilege to partner together with you to see God raising up laborers for the lost world!

Please pray with us that God will use this time to grow them in their...

• Relationship with God
• Vision for the world
• Understanding of how God has designed them for His glory and impact!

Ephesians 2:4-10 ESV
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in or trespasses, made us alive together with Christ - by grace you have been saved - and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God; not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for Good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Mobilizing Christ-like Leaders and Laborers

The words of Jesus in Matthew 9:35-38 continue to ring loud and clear in my heart!

"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."

In response to Christ's command I am praying! Praying this even more than ever before! PLEASE PRAY WITH US for God to raise up and send out more laborers creating more opportunities than ever before!!!!!

As a ministry, who's vision is to "Build Laborers on the Campus for the Lost World" our strategy is fairly straight forward:

• Evangelize - Reach students with the Gospel of Jesus Christ 
• Establish - Help students grow into mature disciples of Jesus Christ
• Equip - Train them to evangelize and disciple others 
• Export - Help them mobilize into effective life and ministry beyond the campus

Sounds simple doesn't it? Well it is not so simple. Our strategy is not curriculum driven, but life on life discipleship through God's word. As things have changed within our culture over the years, we find that it often takes 1-2 years to see students come to Christ and begin to grow. If we are lucky we have another 1-2 years left with them before they graduate and move on to the next phase of their lives! While this is incredibly strategic, sometimes it has been challenging to truly equip and export or mobilize our graduates effectively!

This is one of the questions we have been wrestling with before the Lord over the past several years. "How can we more effectively mobilize more laborers?" The emphasis of the question is two fold, how can we help more of them and do it more effectively.

As you might imagine, we have invested a huge amount of our time, energy, blood, sweat, and tears on the first three stages of ministry with very little "time" left for effective mobilization. This has led to frustration and many missed opportunities. We now understand that mobilizing is not something we do at the end of the process, but an integral part of how disciple and cast vision through out the process.

We determined that first we needed to define what a mobilized graduate would look like. So we came up with this statement. "We desire for all our alumni to be multiplying their lives in the context of the lost world as a part of a missional community in accordance with their God-given design and in strategic partnership with Campus Outreach."

Each phrase in this statement is there to communicate something very specific. Let's break it down:

• We desire - It is our desire/deep longing 
• for all our alumni - For each and every alumni, not just those who go into vocational ministry
• to be multiplying their lives - We believe that it is God's desire that we al multiply/bear fruit (Jn 15:8,  2 Tim 2:2)
• in the context of the lost world - we believe that God's heart is on the lost world (Matt 9:35-39, Matt 28:18-30, Jn 3:16)
• as a part of a missional community - the people we spend our time with are influencing us toward something, we believe it is imperative to participate in a community focused on the Lord and His mission for our lives or we will be diluted and useless (Acts 2:42-47, Rom 12:1-2, Heb 10:24-25)
• in accordance with their God-given design - we are each God's workmanship/work of art that He has design for his purposes, we each play a special role and our gifts are important to the function of the body of Christ (Jn 10:10, 2 Cor. 12:12-31)

So we have committed...

• to seek to help every graduate have a next step plan
• to create tracks/opportunities for ministry beyond college for graduates
• to partner with other like minded ministries, churches, & missions to mobilize more laborers
• for every graduate have a team or missional community to labor with
• for every graduate to have a mentor through their first two years out of college

As a result God has led us to more effective partnerships in ministry around the world. We are beginning to help mobilize small teams of graduates into strategic life and ministry opportunities across the country and around the world, from Denver to Deli, from Memphis to Malasia, from Augusta to Asia. God is continually bringing other ministries and churches to us that we can help mobilize graduates toward. Praise the Lord! Pray that we would grow in our understanding, capacity, and effectiveness for deeper partnerships within God's Kingdom! All for His Glory!

"For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen." Romans. 11:36

Mobilizing Christ-like Leaders and Laborers

• Staff from around the CO Ministry met together in Peachtree City, GA to discuss the development of our Mobilization Philosophy. We desire to effectively mobilize each of our graduates into effective missional communities as they graduate.

Staff helping CO mobilize more and more laborers more and more effectively into the harvest.

We are blessed to see God graduating some 1,000 laborers from across the 24 regional CO Ministries this year. These graduates are not just students who've come to Christ while in college, but students whom we have invested in deeply and have helped equip as leaders for Christ. It is important as stewards before God that we do our very best to help each graduate identify a strategic path toward living out God's great commission! 

This is area of Mobilization is one of my personal passions. Please pray for us as we seek to take this commitment back to the context of the regional CO ministries and develop local strategies and plans to help see more graduates more effectively mobilized as they transition into life after college.