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http://redemptivestories.blogspot.com

I’m launching a new Blog called Redemptive Stories. You can check it out by clicking the direct link above.

It’ll be a topical blog. Basically an ongoing series of short articles, stories, and commentary exploring personal redemptive stories on the web. Mostly some snippets from my journals over the last few years of developing StorySpot.com.

Please help me spread the word about this if it interests you.

http://redemptivestories.blogspot.com

http://redemptivestories.blogspot.com

I’m launching a new Blog called Redemptive Stories. You can check it out by clicking the direct link above.

It’ll be a topical blog. Basically an ongoing series of short articles, stories, and commentary exploring personal redemptive stories on the web. Mostly some snippets from my journals over the last few years of developing StorySpot.com.

Please help me spread the word about this if it interests you.

http://redemptivestories.blogspot.com

Since Avery loves to color and create her own stories, we recently got her one of those do-it-yourself kits where you fill out the pre-made book pages and send it in to the company. Then in about 4 weeks, ta-dah, your child receives his/her very own hardback book complete with author credits and everything!
Avery’s book is Adventure on Blackberry Mountain. It features herself, Addison, Toby and Papaw and Nana on an epic adventure to pick blackberries and escape from a hungry black bear! (They do escape, of course, and even end up sharing blackberry pie with the bear!)

Since Avery loves to color and create her own stories, we recently got her one of those do-it-yourself kits where you fill out the pre-made book pages and send it in to the company. Then in about 4 weeks, ta-dah, your child receives his/her very own hardback book complete with author credits and everything!
Avery’s book is Adventure on Blackberry Mountain. It features herself, Addison, Toby and Papaw and Nana on an epic adventure to pick blackberries and escape from a hungry black bear! (They do escape, of course, and even end up sharing blackberry pie with the bear!)

HANDS HEADLINES E-Letter

———March 15, 2005 E-Letter: —————-

Hello again! This month is so full of happenings that there’s not space to print all of them. Click these links to read more about: Student 2 Student Update (100 people trust Christ through this strategy in which students commit to be intentional about praying for friends who don’t know Christ and sharing the gospel with them); We Do Disney; Kids Update; and more. The story below was adapted from WorldWide Challenge – an excellent magazine published six times a year. Let us know if you’d like a subscription. We’d be glad to have it sent to you!

Just Browsing

“Is there a God?” Patricia Calderon typed into her computer. Ask Jeeves, The Internet search engine, boasts the ability to find the answer to any question. This was just one of many search engines Patricia frequently used to find all kinds of information, from news to music. But could it really tell her about God?

The first site she opened was www.EveryStudent.com, an evangelistic effort by Campus Crusade for Christ. She blinked in amazement when she saw the first article. It was titled, “Is There A God?”

“It freaked me out,” she remembers about looking at the entire list of articles. “Every single question I had, it was all right there.”

She started reading, frozen to her computer. The minutes turned to hours: She read about knowing God, and she read about how to become a Christian. “When I read that God doesn’t care about us praying lofty, spiritual words, He cares about our hearts, it was so freeing. So I just prayed, ‘Yeah, what it says on the screen, God, I want that; I want to know You.’”

Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of online Americans use the Internet to perform spiritual and religious activities, according to a survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. But Patricia’s story is an example of how God is using the Internet to reach young people today. Over 2,000 of the 300,000+ visitors to EveryStudent.com have indicated that they have placed their faith in Christ just in the last few months. This does not include over 800 visitors from closed Muslim countries who visited the Arabic version of the site and indicated that they also trusted Christ!

It was early in the morning when Patricia invited Christ into her heart, with tears streaming down her face. At 2:49 a.m., she sent an e-mail to Ana Arias, one of 60 Campus Crusade staff members (including David) equipped to respond to emails through the EveryStudent.com site. At this point, Patricia was preparing for her freshman year of college at UC-Davis and she feared that something might happen to her mom after she moved away. “If I pray hard enough,” Patricia wrote, “do you think she’ll be OK?”

Ana e-mailed back the next day, assuring Patricia that being honest with God about her fear was a good thing, that she should give all her fears to God and trust Him with the future.

Patricia’s next step was college, and one of the first people she met was a student involved with Campus Crusade. She now regularly attends Campus Crusade meetings and actively talks about her faith with non-Christian friends.

Thank you for the part you play in seeing the lives of students changed for Christ!! Your investment is reaping eternal rewards.

~ David & Shannon + Avery, Addison & Toby

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The Hands

514 Benson Hurst Drive

Mableton, GA 30126

770-944-0036

Contributions:

Please make checks payable to “Campus Crusade for Christ” and mail
to:

Contributions

Account # 0438803

100 Lake Hart Drive

Orlando FL 32832

Online Contributions: HandsHeadlines.com/give.htm

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Click here for the homepage of our website, Hands
Headlines. com

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HANDS HEADLINES E-Letter

———March 15, 2005 E-Letter: —————-

Hello again! This month is so full of happenings that there’s not space to print all of them. Click these links to read more about: Student 2 Student Update (100 people trust Christ through this strategy in which students commit to be intentional about praying for friends who don’t know Christ and sharing the gospel with them); We Do Disney; Kids Update; and more. The story below was adapted from WorldWide Challenge – an excellent magazine published six times a year. Let us know if you’d like a subscription. We’d be glad to have it sent to you!

Just Browsing

“Is there a God?” Patricia Calderon typed into her computer. Ask Jeeves, The Internet search engine, boasts the ability to find the answer to any question. This was just one of many search engines Patricia frequently used to find all kinds of information, from news to music. But could it really tell her about God?

The first site she opened was www.EveryStudent.com, an evangelistic effort by Campus Crusade for Christ. She blinked in amazement when she saw the first article. It was titled, “Is There A God?”

“It freaked me out,” she remembers about looking at the entire list of articles. “Every single question I had, it was all right there.”

She started reading, frozen to her computer. The minutes turned to hours: She read about knowing God, and she read about how to become a Christian. “When I read that God doesn’t care about us praying lofty, spiritual words, He cares about our hearts, it was so freeing. So I just prayed, ‘Yeah, what it says on the screen, God, I want that; I want to know You.’”

Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of online Americans use the Internet to perform spiritual and religious activities, according to a survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. But Patricia’s story is an example of how God is using the Internet to reach young people today. Over 2,000 of the 300,000+ visitors to EveryStudent.com have indicated that they have placed their faith in Christ just in the last few months. This does not include over 800 visitors from closed Muslim countries who visited the Arabic version of the site and indicated that they also trusted Christ!

It was early in the morning when Patricia invited Christ into her heart, with tears streaming down her face. At 2:49 a.m., she sent an e-mail to Ana Arias, one of 60 Campus Crusade staff members (including David) equipped to respond to emails through the EveryStudent.com site. At this point, Patricia was preparing for her freshman year of college at UC-Davis and she feared that something might happen to her mom after she moved away. “If I pray hard enough,” Patricia wrote, “do you think she’ll be OK?”

Ana e-mailed back the next day, assuring Patricia that being honest with God about her fear was a good thing, that she should give all her fears to God and trust Him with the future.

Patricia’s next step was college, and one of the first people she met was a student involved with Campus Crusade. She now regularly attends Campus Crusade meetings and actively talks about her faith with non-Christian friends.

Thank you for the part you play in seeing the lives of students changed for Christ!! Your investment is reaping eternal rewards.

~ David & Shannon + Avery, Addison & Toby

——————————————————–

The Hands

514 Benson Hurst Drive

Mableton, GA 30126

770-944-0036

Contributions:

Please make checks payable to “Campus Crusade for Christ” and mail
to:

Contributions

Account # 0438803

100 Lake Hart Drive

Orlando FL 32832

Online Contributions: HandsHeadlines.com/give.htm

- – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – -

Click here for the homepage of our website, Hands
Headlines. com

- – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – -

In our February edition of Hands Headlines (E-Letter), we told you about Student 2 Student – a strategy in which students involved in Campus Crusade commit to be intentional about praying for friends who don’t know Christ and sharing the gospel with them.

Our students around the country have been praying for the Lord to bring 50,000 of their peers to Christ through this strategy. This is quite a goal of faith! Yet, it has been fun to see reports of how the Lord has been using it. Very recently we received word that a milestone has been reached: 100 students have now trusted Christ!

We’ve posted a downloadable pdf file (you’ll need Adobe Acrobat Reader (free software) to view this file) with the stories of the first 25 people who have come to Christ. You’ve got to read these stories. But don’t just read them – praise God together with us for what He is doing. And we can expect God to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine (Eph 3:20)!

So let’s begin asking for 200!

And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved. [Acts 2:47]

In our February edition of Hands Headlines (E-Letter), we told you about Student 2 Student – a strategy in which students involved in Campus Crusade commit to be intentional about praying for friends who don’t know Christ and sharing the gospel with them.

Our students around the country have been praying for the Lord to bring 50,000 of their peers to Christ through this strategy. This is quite a goal of faith! Yet, it has been fun to see reports of how the Lord has been using it. Very recently we received word that a milestone has been reached: 100 students have now trusted Christ!

We’ve posted a downloadable pdf file (you’ll need Adobe Acrobat Reader (free software) to view this file) with the stories of the first 25 people who have come to Christ. You’ve got to read these stories. But don’t just read them – praise God together with us for what He is doing. And we can expect God to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine (Eph 3:20)!

So let’s begin asking for 200!

And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved. [Acts 2:47]

Please continue to lift us up over the next few weeks and months. There’s no doubt we need it!

There are a few specific requests below, but we always enjoy praying through Scripture, so we’ve given you a few passages you can pray for us. We always know we pray according to God’s will when we pray His Word!

Thanks!

I pray that David & Shannon will delight themselves in You, Lord, knowing that You will give
them the desires of their heart.
–Psalm 37:4

O Lord, remind David & Shannon continually that You alone are their strength, and that it is
You who allows them to accomplish any high and lofty goals.
–Habakkuk 3:19

O Lord, grant that David & Shannon remember often Your deep and abiding love for them,
knowing that they will ultimately be victorious spiritually because You died for them.
–Romans 8:37

Lord, I ask You to help David & Shannon to confess their sins before You, remembering that
You are faithful and just and will cleanse them from sin and forgive them for all
unrighteousness.
–I John 1:9

O God, let David & Shannon always be confident in approaching You, remembering that You
hear their prayers when they ask in accord with Your will. May they always pray this way,
with confidence.
– I John 5:14-15

• As always, pray for our time alone with the Lord. We yearn for and are challenged to find extended quiet time.
• Pray for Shannon as she homeschools Avery while caring for Addison and Toby, too.
• Ask God to support us with encouraging relationships and that He would use us to reach our neighbors.
• Pray for David as he responds to emails from www.EveryStudent.com It’s obvious that many of the students who submit a question to the site have very limited knowledge of the gospel or have been misinformed. There seems to be a real openess with many of them.

Please continue to lift us up over the next few weeks and months. There’s no doubt we need it!

There are a few specific requests below, but we always enjoy praying through Scripture, so we’ve given you a few passages you can pray for us. We always know we pray according to God’s will when we pray His Word!

Thanks!

I pray that David & Shannon will delight themselves in You, Lord, knowing that You will give
them the desires of their heart.
–Psalm 37:4

O Lord, remind David & Shannon continually that You alone are their strength, and that it is
You who allows them to accomplish any high and lofty goals.
–Habakkuk 3:19

O Lord, grant that David & Shannon remember often Your deep and abiding love for them,
knowing that they will ultimately be victorious spiritually because You died for them.
–Romans 8:37

Lord, I ask You to help David & Shannon to confess their sins before You, remembering that
You are faithful and just and will cleanse them from sin and forgive them for all
unrighteousness.
–I John 1:9

O God, let David & Shannon always be confident in approaching You, remembering that You
hear their prayers when they ask in accord with Your will. May they always pray this way,
with confidence.
– I John 5:14-15

• As always, pray for our time alone with the Lord. We yearn for and are challenged to find extended quiet time.
• Pray for Shannon as she homeschools Avery while caring for Addison and Toby, too.
• Ask God to support us with encouraging relationships and that He would use us to reach our neighbors.
• Pray for David as he responds to emails from www.EveryStudent.com It’s obvious that many of the students who submit a question to the site have very limited knowledge of the gospel or have been misinformed. There seems to be a real openess with many of them.