October Prayer Letter

Laying the Foundation
Seven weeks. One hundred and fifteen campuses visited.

After getting our apartments set up and finding a French tutor, we have spent the last seven weeks plotting all the universities of Abidjan on a map and then visiting them. A list we found online says there are 175 universities in the country. We have found that many JUST IN ABIDJAN so far. Obviously, we have a grand task before us in seeking to launch spiritual movements on each of the campuses in the country.

Cru has a goal of being on half of the colleges in the world by the year 2020. We are currently on four campuses out of the 175+ here. There are nine of us currently working full-time at campus ministry, so we hope to launch 27 movements this year.

Please take a moment to stop and pray as the goal in front of us is a lofty one.

Although the task is difficult, there is no question that God is going before us. On our first day of “decoding,” we asked a man on the street if he knew where a certain campus was. He did and got in his car to show us the way. Found out, he was Muslim. Upon arriving, we came across a janitor who happened to also be Muslim and was more than willing to answer all of our questions about the campus. He told us of another university nearby and volunteered to take us there. While en route, he saw a young man and introduced us. He was the leader of the Christian group at the school!  He then took us to the administration, who proceeded to tell us we were more than welcome to set foot on any of their 14 campuses in Abidjan to share the Gospel and coach students!

God is moving to start a spiritual renewal in this country friends. We have the privilege of laying a foundation for future teams to come in and harvest the fruit. Will you please take another moment and pray for those future laborers to be raised up?

A young man from Davy’s old Bible Study at MO State has already filled out his application to come serve with us next year. God is good. We are thankful for your love and support in this endeavor!

The National Staff hosted a training for all the current student leaders on how to do movement launching ministry.  In the background is the building they are currently building to host mission trip teams.

Students give a presentation during the movement launching training 

Stephen and Angelo in front of one of the schools we decoded last month.

Prayer Requests

• Pray for discernment as we decide which campuses to start working on based on the information from the “decoding” process. 

• Pray that we come into contact quickly with “Good Soil” students that God has already been preparing to take responsibility to lead spiritually on their campus. 

• One of our teams’ apartments was broken into. Laptop, iPad, and wallet were stolen. Pray for the team as they deal with the insecurity that accompanies this and the financial burden as well. 

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

Aiden is on the move! He is walking everywhere and likes to waves hello to everyone we pass on the street. We love his friendliness!

One Saturday we took some Cru students to an orphanage and put on a program for the kids. Angelo (center) and Allui (right) are pictured above showing off their best dance moves with the kids.