Tough break

Since I wrote last I have been to Albuquerque and visited with family for a while during Christmas. Then on the 27^th I headed up to Denver CO for DCC. Cru's Denver Christmas Conference. As staff I made it on the video team. This was my Fifth DCC and my first as staff. On the video team I recorded any short videos they needed and covered the events like the flash mob and Haiti meal packing. On new years eve in particular, I recorded all 1200 students going out on 16^th street and doing the flashmob and using that to get into spiritual conversations afterward. Here is a link to the news coverage of the event : http://www.kdvr.com/videobeta/?watchId=9c2061ea-024a-40cb-9ca1-2e9bc6b25069 .. after that I then recorded about two thousand people doing a wave all the way down 16^th street. Again it was used to get into spiritual conversations. After this second flash mob I recorded the fireworks going off in downtown Denver, then all the student went back into the main ballroom in the hotel and we heard a talk from Scott Nickel then had a very awesome worship till the countdown to new years. Once the new year hit we worshiped and danced and celebrated. This all was recorded as well. After Nick and myself finished recording all we needed to we then went into the video room and edited everything we shot and put it into a re-cap video to be shown first thing that morning. We finished recording everything at 1 a.m. And finished the video at 4 a.m. Went to bed at 4:30 and woke up at 8.... this was one of the tougher nights at DCC for me. But I helped make about 5 videos that were shown in front of 1200 students. And one that didn't get shown. I was in Denver working on the video team from the 27^th to the 2^nd. From the 2^nd to the 4^th was the staff conference. As you probably have an idea, working att dcc was tiring and a lot of work. So the staff conference is for the staff of cru only. Its after all the students head home and its a chance for us to sit in on our own seminars and not have to worry about work and videos.

I was approached by our campus directer recently about leading a spring break trip to east Asia. Cru at NMSU partners with East Asia as a mission field. We go there for spring breaks and have summer project opportunity there as well. So currently they had no one available to help lead the students there for spring break. I prayed about it and decided I will go ahead and lead a group from NMSU. So please pray for me and the students that will be going to east asia to share our faith and learn and experience experience a different culture.

I am currently looking for another part time job and would ask for prayer to find one. Please pray i get more consistent on getting news letters out and my blog updated. I am excited for a new semester and excited to see the Lord continue to work and transform lives at NMSU. Last semester was incredible. Pray this semester is more so.

Sweet

Hi! everyone. So sorry it took so long to update this.... again... The semester has ended here NMSU, Last week Cru had 20+ hrs of meetings for the staff to evaluate the semester and plan next semester. I also want to say THANK YOU! Thank you to all of you who has given me support. Without you I would not be doing what I do with Cru and growing in my faith in a astonishing way. This semester was my first semester working for Cru and any ministry for that matter. Every week we have intern training. Through this training I am challenged to take bigger and more uncomfortable steps toward the great commission. Through these steps, I am learning better on how to hold on less to myself and more on Christ. Most everyday I get to hang with college students and talk about Christ, through bible studies, disciple groups, evangelising, and our many social events. So thanks to all of you supporters out there. Cru grew a great deal this semester. We are averaging about 50 each weekly meeting, and three people have chose to give their lives over to Christ, and many have rededicated their life's, and turned from their current life's direction and turned to Christ. Its been a good semester, but we are all human and in need of constant growth. We are far from perfect. So please pray we continue to do Christs will and not our own. I would also love to have a job like this for as long as I can. So if anyone out there would like to support me on my mission to serve and witness to NMSU, I would appreciate the help, and feel free to tell tell others who may be interested in what I do. I love talking about it.  

Far too long

 Hi everyone. Sorry I haven't updated this in a while. Keeping people posted and up to date on my life in the form of writing is a bit unnatural for me... But I'm learning. Cru has kept me very busy and occupied. I love my job. It does have its challenges though. Like I've mentioned before, I only am getting paid part time. The cru team here has been through a lot of changes this semester. We lost Phil and Liz washburn in June, they moved to Ohio. Then of course, the Pelton family has been in Albuquerque because of all the medical conditions thier son Jude had and then Jude just recently passed away. So the Cru team basically just had two senior staff. Vince and Holly Hoppe. Nick, Sarah, and myself are the new cru interns. So this semester we lost 4 senior staff members and gained 3 part time interns. And Vince and Holly had a new baby. :) thats very exciting, but as you can tell through all this, I've been overwhelmed at trying to help out. Some weeks I've worked more than full time. I'm ok with that. The job is very awesome, but I still dont have a second part time job and I litrally am living paycheck by paycheck. So please pray that the Lord will provide more support and or a second part time job will arise. I feel like there is a million little jobs for me to do each day. Most of it is very tedius. All I want to do is serve this campus, meet with students, and teach them on spiritual things and talk about Christ to those who dont know him.... But support raising, paying bills, budgetting, and simply surviving one paycheck at a time, is all really stressful and distracting more than anything. I want those to all just go away... but its not. I know the Lord has me here for a reason. Though its very uncomfortable, its very good. Christ is leading me through this. I finally graduated and yet here I am, poorer than Ive ever been before... as far as wealth is concerned. My need for Christ is greater. My thirst for his guidence and wisdom is greater than its ever been.... If having money means loosing devotion toward Christ, than I dont want money.

So, this semester, two people have accepted Christ as thier savior through cru. :) very awesome. I've had a lot of good spiritual discussions as well. There is one student and friend that is very close to accepting Christ as thier savior. He has come to me to find out who Christ is... it very amazing to see a life transform right in front of you. To see Christ moving in someones heart directly through you is very awe inspiring. Its very exciting to see Christ work... And all us new interns are a bit stressed at times. We all have training thats crammed in a part time schedule.... Now though all this seems crazy. Its been really neat to see the Lord working through it all. Christ has been moving in great ways. The peltons baby, Jude, Though only living to be 67 days old, inpacted many many lives. Through his short little life i've seen first hand, Christ move though his story. And I'm sure he will continue to move using Judes story. And us new interns are having to step up and take on stuff a lot faster than normal because of the lack in manpower. But its helping us learn a lot and fast. :) though there is struggle, its always followed by a greater amount of growth.... I'm very excited to be on the nmsu cru team.

This is what Christ is teaching me in my life rigth now. Hes been really teaching me more about prayer.When I fail to pray, my best is all I can offer. When I do pray, its no long the best I can do, its the best God can do. How arrogant can I be to think that doing my best is good enough. I want to be the man Christ wants me to be. I want to rely on the paower of God and not the power of me. So I've been really trying to be more conciouse of prayer... Prayer has always been very present in my life... but recently I haven't been praying as much and have been working harder... I want the exact oposite to happen. I want to stop trying to fix the world myself but allow God to fix the world through me. I need to stop trying so hard. Who am I compared to God... thats right, nothin. But with God, there is nothing I cant do.

Christ, my muse

     So interning for Cru is going well. Been on campus a ton, been in a lot of meetings and have talked to a lot of students and am lovin it. I am currently seeking out two students to disciple and looking for possibly one more. I hope they to will disciple 3 students and so on and so forth. I officially got hired to work with Cru as a part time staff this week and thats all based on my support. I am about a third of the way to my final goal, so please continue to pray and if you can help me with any referrals and or support, please contact me.

Christ is continueing to bless me. Continuing to help me increase.... this week I started going to a doctrine study with Vincent Hoppe. Good stuff. Talked about how we have personalities because we were created by one who Has personality. How can personality come on its own? Also that God is usearchable and no one has the authority to challenge Him. (Rom 11:33-34, 1 Cor 2:16 ) We were created by God and given personality. God is also Infinite, unsearchable, never ending, ect.. Now, how can we know God? How can we know Christ if he is unsearchable, infinite, and never ending? We only can because He gave us the ability to know him. Created by Him, for Him and given the ability to know Him. Not know Him fully but only learn that in which he reveals to us. So the BEST and GREATEST thing for us to do is to dwell in Christ. Its what we were made for and we are at our greatest in doing what Christ made and called us to do. We can only learn pieces of the infinite God only becaus he reaveals himself to us. The more we learn of Christ the more we grow, the greater we become, and the more we realize that there is even more to learn. The more we dig the more is revealed. The deeper we go the greater our joy goes and the deeper our love goes. Its like a never ending path to paradise, and the only way to get there is because of Christ.... Anyway, amazing stuff. I thought I'd share something I wrote last week.

My Hero

I know this guy
This guy has never lied
He never stole or lusted
He never had pride
He can always be trusted

I know him to be caring
I know him to be compassionate
I know him to be worth sharing
I know him to never quit

He gave of himself for others always
He loved those who hated and glared
He always prayed and gave praise
He never ran and was never scared

Never impaired and always prepared
Never did sin, and always has been
Always loved, praised, prayed, gave, and saved
Is ever watchful, thoughtful, merciful, and delightful

He is the son of the living God
He is the firstborn of every creature
He is the Lord and savior
He is Jehovah and redeemer

He is my life, muse, and savior
I live for Him, care for Him and love Him
He tought me the best behavior
He is my ever recurring whim

He is the friend that doesn't leave you
He is the guard that always protects you
He is the relationship thats always worth it
He is the well that never runs dry.

His words stand through time
His power unmatched

His name is Christ Jesus
His comands are unstoppable
His burden is non rigorous
His mind is immovable

His workers are few
His field is very great
No one he doesn't pursue
Nothing he didn't create

We were created to seek Him
Designed to love Him
Called to represent Him
And true peace within Him

To follow Christ is my life
Nothing else is even an option
Why continue in lifes strife
When Christ is accepting you in adoption?