Crusade Staff Conference

Twenty days left and we head off to Colorado for Campus Crusade Staff Conference. It is so hard to believe that only 2 years ago we were there, still working on initial support and looking forward to what God would do with us at FamilyLife. Now, we are going to the conference as senior staff (simply meaning, we have reported to our job at FamilyLife).

This year promises to be completely different for a few reasons:
1. We are the ones welcoming New Staff and trying to make them feel comfortable. There will probably be about 15 new staff families coming this year.
2. FamilyLife is putting up a tent at the entrance to the main arena where all the meetings are held. It is designed to make all staff aware of what FamilyLife does and to show them resources available to help them in each of their individual ministries. Our intent is to recruit between 40 & 50 family units to FamilyLife to fit our new regional model (they won't move to Little Rock). Since most of the ministries under Campus Crusade are not used to being at a central location, but in the field, this is a perfect opportunity for those who have reached the end of their career as staff ministering to college age kids, to move into a ministry that reaches marriages & families for Christ.
3. Campus Crusade will most likely announce their new name. This is going to be very stressful to a majority of the staff since the current name holds emotional connection in some way, either they came to know the Lord through Campus or this is the mission organization God called them to. In any case, please pray since we are just people and very emotional at times.
4. We will be away from the office and I will be backed up when I return.

I will be attempting to blog each day beginning on July 18th to keep you updated on what we are doing. "Starbucks, here I come". (Last time I woke up each morning around 5 and would do my Bible reading and blog at Starbucks since the cafeteria didn't open until 7:30a)

Harold