September 2005

Brock's Finance Role
August and September have been quite busy with our year end closing processes and reporting. We have also finalized our financial planning (budgeting) for this coming year. I have seen God's hand in many facets of this year's process. Praise Him.

Some of the national projects God has granted us (you and us) the resources and stewardship of this coming year are:
Katrina relief trips by hundreds of students and staff. We've also partnered with www.FoundationForHope.com to match displaced families with churches who want to provide 3 months housing and help them find new life.
EveryStudent.com-our evangelistic website that saw thousands of students receive Christ last year.
Forerunner-our strategy to start ministries on the next 2,000 campuses, especially the ones with no evangelical student groups.
Student2Student- Using the web and emails to join students around the U.S. together in concerted prayer and unified witness, trusting God for the privilege of leading at least one other person to Christ this school term.

Tara was helped by Student2Student...
this past year. She attends Sandi's alma mater, James Madison. Here is her story...
I knew a boy that was in my philosophy class and he and I began talking one day. He asked for my screen name and noticed that it was a reference to God. We began talking about it nearly every single day. It was very stressful at times because he would just argue whatever I said, and wanted more scientific evidence. It had been nearly 2 months but I didn't give up.

We continued talking about God and I asked him to attend Cru with me. I could see that he was amazed and was very confused. I could tell he was considering, and after Cru we talked for about an hour. I asked him to go with me the following week and he just laughed. He began to laugh even harder in response to a statement I made. I said if you ever come to know the Lord will you tell me so that I can praise Him for that. He laughed and told me not to count on it. He ended up attending Cru with me again. He came over and watched the Passion of the Christ with me, and we talked about God. At this point we were having very in depth and lengthy conversations about God's love, forgiveness, grace, and existence everyday on aim.

On January 23 2005 he imed (i.e., instant messaged) me and said these exact words-
"Any inhibitions I held earlier have been annihilated. God loves me and I love Him for it."
"And I was thinking to myself, Man my life is just awesome right now. I don't even deserve this much awesome."
"Then I froze."
"And I thought, No.....I don't, I don't deserve any of it, but He's given it to me anyway because He loves me."
"And bam. I've been in shock all day."

God is GOOD!!! He has continued to work in Dabney's life. He participated in CCC's Spring Break outreach and the San Diego Summer Mission Project.

Thank you
Thank you for joyously sacrificing with us to enable student's "inhibitions" against Christ to be "annihilated" by His love and truth.

Sharing His love together,

Brock & Sandi

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