January Newsletter

Fresh Bread

Happy New Year! Well, what a year 2013 has been! The year ended with quite a bang for me. As some of you may know I got engaged on the first day of Denver Christmas Conference. I have a ton to report as far as what God did in ministry at DCC, but first I’ll tell you about the wonderful man I get to marry.

His name is Davy McVicker. We met a little over 2 years ago in the Fall when I was student teaching. We hit it off at DCC that year and became good friends. Even before we got together I admired his deep love for Christ and enjoyed his fun loving personality. We started dating last summer when we were in Cote d’Ivoire together. This is his third year on Cru staff at Missouri State. He is from a small town two hours east of Springfield. I am so blessed to be marrying someone who has a heart to see the world changed for Christ. I hope that each of you get to meet him very soon. God is so good and my heart is so full!

Many of you may wonder what’s next for me. I will explain in more detail in the future, but I will be joining staff with Cru this summer. This means that rather than a year to year internship I will commit 3-5 years at a location. Over the past few years God has been leading me to join staff and make my commitment with Cru a little more permanent. And thankfully, he brought me a man who shares the same passion. I’m excited to embark on this journey of reaching college students with the gospel together. 

From Campus

Other than getting engaged here are some of the highlights from DCC

• Many students including Kinsey, a sophomore on the volleyball team, participated in an online outreach. The words on her sign describe her life before and after Christ. She used this to initiate spiritual conversations with her friends.

• Sebastian, a freshman, accepted Christ into his life at DCC. Praise God for a new brother in Christ.

• The community that was built amongst MSU students was incredible. It was so fun to see new friendships being formed and students being vulnerable with each other. 

• Allie, a senior girl I disciple, said that DCC really helped her surrender her future to the Lord. She says she wants to go wherever He calls her even though she's not sure where yet. She is considering interning with Cru and regardless of what she chooses I’m so thankful for her heart to follow God no matter what.

• Caleb, a student that went on summer project with me, shared about his experience in Cote d’Ivoire. He encouraged students to do something meaningful with their summer. We had over 100 students come to the Cote d’Ivoire summer project info session. Praise the Lord that the work we did last summer will be built upon this summer! 

• I gave a seminar on believing the truth and using God’s word to fight lies the enemy feeds us. 120 girls showed up and I was able to have several one-on-one follow-up conversations with girls that desire to fight for the truth in their lives.

• Learning about and worshiping God with 1,200 plus college students is an incredible part of my job. By God’s grace DCC 2013 changed lives. I can’t wait to see how he builds on it throughout the spring semester.

Ways you can pray

• My roommate, Lizzy, is moving to the Middle East this semester to do ministry with Cru. Please pray for her transition and ministry next semester.
• Pray for Davy and I as we seek to follow the Lord in our relationship and build a strong foundation for  marriage.
• Our semester will be starting January 13th. Pray for  that we would boldly proclaim the Gospel and build into students this semester.
• We will be doing a large evangelistic outreach called the Maze in February. Please pray for our planning efforts and for the students that will be hearing the Gospel message.