January Prayer Letter

WE’RE PREGNANT!!

Meet our child, who we are for now affectionately calling, “McBaby.” We are so excited to go on this new adventure of parenthood! This child will the be the first grandkid for both our parents, first great-grandchild, and the first niece or nephew for our siblings, so everyone is thrilled for the baby’s arrival.

As of Jan 11th, we are ten weeks along making the due date August 8th! It was so fun to see the baby wiggling around and to hear the heart beating during the ultrasound! Both McBaby and I are doing well, although I have definitely experienced the nausea often associated with the first trimester. 

Denver Christmas Conference 

Have you every had the chance to sit in a room with 1,000 other people worshipping God? Ever set aside five full days to listen to Biblical teaching, spend time in the word/prayer, and fellowship with brothers and sisters in Christ? DCC provides exactly those opportunities to our students. Some give their lives to God for the first time, some recommit after wandering away for a season, others confess untold sin and experience new freedom, and many share their faith for first time. It is a faith stretching week and everyone leaves different than when they came. 

I was able to give a seminar to 100+ girls on fighting lies that women believe and it was very highly rated by those who attended. Davy led a team of 25 people as the production director of the main sessions. We are blessed to be a part of something like this. Please pray for continued passion as students go back to campus life. 

The ballroom during set up. All these chairs were filled during the conference.

It is an amazing experience to worship God with over a thousand people. 

Here I am giving my seminar talk. There were so many girls we ran out of chairs and they had to sit on the floor.

Our Ivorian friend Stéphane is studying to get a masters degree in Texas. Davy met Stéphane his first summer mission trip in Ivory Coast and they became great friends. He was able to come to DCC and we were SO overjoyed to get to spend time with him. Here our emcee is interviewing Stéphane on his "American experience." He admitted to being incredibly cold and enjoying McDonald's Big Mac's. 

Students are hanging up commitment cards. Students that filled out these cards chose to surrender their futures to God and go where he would have them go and do whatever he would have them do. 

Here are rows and rows of commitment cards. This is only one side of the stage. The other side was lined with cards as well. We are so thankful students are willing to give their lives to the Lord and be used for his glory.

Our SW MO student band got the chance to play this year at DCC. One of the members,Tim, told me his family watched the sessions online to see him play even though they are not believers. He is excited to engage in conversation about God with them now!

PRAYER REQUESTS

• We are at 67% of our monthly financial support goal.Thank you for praying and giving.

• Having a baby does increase our financial goal as we add the new expenses of raising a child. Please take a moment and pray both for the pregnancy and for the new monthly support needs!

• New Year’s resolutions and desperation brings many students to the feet of Jesus in the Spring semester. Pray they find firm footing in the gospel and that our staff find power in the Holy Spirit to handle to increased load. 

HOW CAN WE PRAY FOR YOU? FILL OUT THE FORM TO THE RIGHT AND LET US KNOW!

The first weekly meeting of the semester is Jan 15th.This is usually our largest meeting of the year.The hang out after the meeting will be at our house (probably 100+ students). Pray God brings lots of students to Himself this semester.