A few weeks...

In just a few weeks CTS will return to its normal programming as students return and classes resume. Hard to believe that the summer has passed so quickly, but the campus gets way to quiet in the summer, so we are all anticipating their return.

This year we will welcome new students from around the world that have heard God's call to full-time ministry.  Our returning students will continue the process of study, writing, and engaging in practical ministry.  It's a joy to see their progression through their studies, maturity in Christ, and fulfillment of God's call.  

The coming generation of students will reach their generation for Christ.  They sometimes think in ways that I don't and do things that I wouldn't, but in the process they stretch me to think differently, act boldly, and live in a way that is perhaps out of the proverbial Christian "box", in order to be who Jesus wants me to be.

I appreciate your prayers as I prepare for the Fall semester. Not only will I continue serving as Student Life Director (overseeing the non-academic areas of CTS - dorms, student leaders, ministry, missions, etc.), but I will also teach two courses:  Youth Ministries and Spiritual Leadership Development.  I look forward to the opportunity of being back in the classroom and interacting with students in this formal manner. I typically learn as much from them about culture, ways of thinking and ideas, as they do from me.  

Pray also for our students.  Student leaders arrive on 18 September for the Student Leader Retreat, for which I am responsible.  All other students will be streaming onto the campus shortly after for Registration on 22 September (yes...it's a working birthday for me!) and classes resume on 24 September.  Pray for a good school year in every respects:  spiritually, academically, ministerially, relationally, etc.  

Thanks for your partnership and your prayers!