Ministry

Build a Hygiene Kit, Send to Haiti

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This is a very practical way you, your family or perhaps your church or school could send a little help to hurting people in Haiti.

See our previous post for info on Global Aid Network (GAiN) – they’re doing a great work in Haiti.  Already they have distributed 1,000,000 meals.  Read below how you can participate with them in sending a hygiene kit(s).

Two Campus Crusade staff members – Haitian nationals – are still missing in Haiti.  We’ve not heard from them in over two weeks.  Also, a few student leaders involved with Campus Crusade in Port-au-Prince died during the earthquake.  Please continue to pray for our missionaries and volunteers, that the love and compassion of Jesus would work through them to heal lives.

See more updates with video and links on ccci’s main web site here.

hygiene kit.jpgDSC01734.jpg by GAiN USA.

This is a recent photo some of our staff with GAiN sent in.

Esperandieu Pierre – director of Campus Crusade in Haiti – in front of a container with meals before distributing.  (Photo taken several months ago.  As the Lord arranged it, several containers were already on the ground in Haiti when the earthquake hit).

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Relief for Haiti

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Help give food and water in His name for earthquake victims – Global Aid Network has 1 million meals on the ground in Haiti: http://htxt.it/eMfQ

Global Aid Network – www.GainUsa.org – is Campus Crusade’s humanitarian arm.

This morning I heard a report from one of our national staff members in Haiti:  He was not in Haiti when the quake happened, yet was in Miami for a training conference.  His wife and children were at home when it hit.  Only yesterday did he finally learn that his family was safe!

Others of our staff have not been located or heard from in Haiti.  In total there are approximately 20 full time missionaries with Campus Crusade in Haiti.  Your prayers are greatly appreciated.

Ministry

So Glad He Cares about my Heart

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“God looks to work in my heart more than looking at my work (temporal results). He cares so much about my heart. That’s good news. What’s He doing in your heart today?” — My recent social status update.

Of all the gifts the Lord could give a man, I’m so glad that He promises me a wonderful gift of a heart that knows Him.  This is a promise declared in Jeremiah 24:7 and then graciously delivered through Jesus Christ.

It’s a good thing, too, because Christ himself affirmed that the greatest commandment from God is for us to love and serve Him with a whole heart.  This is not a command to be taken lightly.  Yet, the way this gift of a new heart (see also Ps 51:10; Ez 36:26; Heb 10:21-22) unfolds, it is something that only He can accomplish:  Only Jesus can change a human heart.

Not Utilitarian Worship

One of the best sermons I heard this year was entitled “Beware the Fatal Flaw of Utilitarian Worship” – a look at the life of King Saul.  It made me realize how often I resemble Saul in working carefully to fashion appearances of dedicated service to God, yet at the core I tend to be utilitarian in my service and worship of Him.

Utilitarian worship is a tip of the hat toward God while maintaining full control over my heart and ways.

Check out the story of Saul in 1 Samuel, chapter 13.  Notice the Lord’s response to Saul after he partially obeyed, yet did not respect what God had told Him to do:  In verse 14, He declares that the ultimate solution to Saul’s utilitarian worship is a heart solution.

It is so easy to fall into the trap of image maintenance, and ignore my heart.  No matter how hard I work, no matter how “good” my image may appear, nothing else really matters more than a whole heart.  It’s where real joy lives.

If my heart is continually being changed by God’s gift as promised in Jeremiah 24:7, then I will move away from utilitarian worship.

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December Prayer Calendar

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LOTS to pray for this month.  Every month, our team here at the Global Technology Office conglomerates all of our critical projects, ongoing needs and specific personal requests and publishes them here:  www.mygcx.org/PrayforGTO

It’s a creative way to join us in lifting up our many requests, yet spacing them out a few days at a time.

This month, please especially note the women’s Christmas Cookie Exchange – a neighborhood outreach opportunity which we will host at our house on Tuesday, December 8th. Please pray for the Lord to show His love and redeeming power to many women who will attend.  Last December Shannon helped plan this event and it was a big success.  Several of the women who attended afterwords joined a neighborhood Bible Study.

Click below to view and print the full Prayer Calendar.

Dec Prayer Calendar