This summer Michelle and I will be celebrating 19 years on staff with Cru! There is nothing that brings us greater joy than seeing the Lord work in people’s lives and to see people fall in love with Jesus!  This past year we have been so blessed to celebrate many people coming to faith in Christ! 

One of the churches Joseph has been working with recently celebrated 6 new decisions for Christ on Easter Sunday and 12 baptisms!  Through equipping churches in leadership development, prayer and evangelism within Los Angeles we have been blessed to see these churches reaching the communities around them with the gospel of Jesus and lives are being transformed!

As Joseph helps lead a network of 82 churches, God has helped us to reach out into the many ethnic communities within LA.  These churches are reaching people groups from around the world living right here in Los Angeles: Iranians, Mexicans, Nepalese, Filipinos, Armenians, Koreans, Cambodians and Afghans. We have been blessed to see over 120 people come to Christ through these churches this past year, including 15 High School students from Northview High School—where Pastor Marco (Pastor of a Spanish church in Covina) had spoken at and we had the opportunity to do a sex trafficking  prevention presentation at!

It is hard to imagine that we have been serving with Cru for 19 years this summer!  God has so blessed us throughout these years and we truly believe that our best years of ministry are before us!  That’s one reason why we are so excited about our US Staff Conference in Fort Collins, Colorado this summer.

In addition to some of our ongoing ministry responsibilities we will be attending our required biennial U.S. Staff   Conference this summer, July 14-21, in Fort Collins, Colorado. As we gather with over 5,000 fellow U.S. staff and hear from our leadership, we anticipate that God will broaden our perspective for the world, equip us to be more effective in our ministry roles, and enable us to go forth to bear even more fruit.

We appreciate you prayers for our time traveling to and from Colorado, as well as our time there.  Thank you so very much for your continued prayers, encouragement and support to us as we minister to the communities of Los Angeles!

We pray you will have a wonderful summer as well!