Big news

Our team has expanded from three men to a full team of six, count'em six, campus ministers. We are thrilled to add Christy Seamon, Kristen Moorefield, and Ashley Peterson to the team. Having the three girls on our team is a huge answer to prayer and a sign that God has not forgotten the women on our campus in Dakar. I'm jazzed to know that God has been working in the hearts of women on our campus even before we had a team of female campus ministers to share Christ with them. Praise God for this awesome news!

Incredible sermon on missions and evangelism

Check out this sermon by Paris Reidhead, one of the most formative preachers of the American missionary movement from the 1940's-1970's.  This sermon was at one time the most downloaded sermon on SermonIndex.net.  The reason is because Reidhead challenged the American church to reconsider our motives for missions.  I've had the opportunity to discuss the theme in the sermon with many of you and thought I should make the material available.

"Ten Shekels and a Shirt" by Paris Reidhead

http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=710081423448

Definitely worth your time [50 minutes].  I promise.  It might shake the way you conceive of missions and...incline you to go on STINT with Campus Crusade?  If you want to join us, Dayton and I have volunteered Ryan to sleep on the floor.

update for our prayer team

Thank you in earnest to each of you who has helped us thus far on our journey towards Senegal! We do take it seriously and with great joy to be teamed up with you.

To give you all an update, Ben, Cash, and I are all in the range of 60% on our financial support. Praise God that this means He has provided over $85,000 so far towards our needs-- that is an amazing display of His faithfulness!

Here are some of the things for which you can be praying for us as our departure date gets closer:
-- that our relationships with God would be our first priority everyday of our preparations.
-- that we would have favor in setting up meetings to share the vision of this awesome work to which God's called us.
-- that our visas would be approved in a timely fashion.
-- that our immunizations and other travel details would come into full alignment with God's plans.
-- that God would put tremendous, intense care in us for the people we'll meet in Dakar.

Thank you so much!

Welcome to our blog!  We are three men living, working, and studying in Dakar, Senegal for the sake of Christ.  Ryan, Dayton, and I will add pictures, stories, updates, and prayer concerns to this blog.  Our team blog is meant to help energize all of our faithful supporters about what God is doing overseas.  Thank you for the chance to serve you in this way and may God be pleased as we all join together under Him.