Our
last years have been full of change and excitement. We continually tell our
kids that we have been on a grand adventure these last two years, following
God’s voice and telling people about Jesus.
If you have not been keeping up to
date with our newsletters via email, Facebook or our blog (www.bkchialpha.com),
let us give you a quick update. February 2012 (almost 2 years) ago now, we felt
the call to campus ministry on secular college campuses. In July 2012, we left
our position as youth/worship pastors in Santa Cruz and moved to San Diego to
raise an initial budget for a year of training with Chi Alpha Campus Ministries
at Stanford University. Our goal for this training was to eventually pioneer a
new Chi Alpha at a campus still in need of one (Stanford is one of 307 Chi
Alpha’s in the United States).
Six months later, in January 2013,
we finished raising $3000/month ($2200 in monthly pledges and enough one time
gifts to get us through the one year of training) and moved to San Jose and
began ministry at Stanford. The last year has been full of fruitful ministry
from discipling a number of young men one-on-one to mentoring our worship
leaders, administrating our worship teams, and running events. Our ministry team
has seen people come to Christ, get water baptized, recommit their lives to
Jesus, new leaders raised up, and our group grow by over 20 people. Most of
all, Kendra and I begun to learn the ins and outs of campus ministry and taken
a number of steps toward pioneering our own campus ministry. (Check out
specific stories on our blog!)
With this context, we are very
excited to announce: WE HAVE ACCEPTED GOD’S CALL TO
PIONEER A NEW MINISTRY AT SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY!!!
There
have been so many amazing ways in which God has confirmed this call. 1. God opened up SDSU for us at the
exact time we felt called to Chi Alpha. 2.
God spoke through a number of Chi Alpha leaders which caused us to pray
about SDSU when it was not even an option. 3.
God gave us a specific word and a number of confirmations of that word
including a burning desire in our hearts to pray for and minister there. 4. We have received the blessing of Chi
Alpha and the Assemblies of God on the local and national levels.
Kendra and I have a team of seven to
nine people poised to join us in pioneering a new Chi Alpha ministry at San
Diego State University. We will be ministering to 35,000 students who will help
set the culture of San Diego and California for the years to come. With such a
large team from the outset, we know we will see a great harvest early on at
SDSU. In fact, God has given us Psalm 85, which implores God, “will you not revive us again…and grant us
your salvation?” Then God promises to answer with peace, salvation, a great harvest and to prepare the steps of the
righteous! We believe God is has been preparing our steps our whole lives
for the most effective and fruitful season of ministry.
What
does this mean for our immediate future? 1. We will remain at Stanford in an increasingly limited capacity
until June, 2014 when the kids finish school. 2. We will begin raising ministry funds part-time now and full-time
beginning in March. 3. We will move
to San Diego at the end of June and continue raising operating funds. Finally, we will continue raising funds
from San Diego until we raise our full ministry budget ($5500/month). At that
time we will be released to begin ministry on the SDSU campus. We are believing
to finish this process and begin ministry with a team of 7 others in time for
the first day of classes August 25. This is an ambitious goal, but we are
believing God for financial miracles that he has proven faithful to do already
these last two years.
Please
pray with us toward this next fall and toward partnering financially on a monthly basis with the
awesome things God has in store for San Diego State University in the future.
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