Cru 25 Conference

Thank you so very much for your prayers and financial support for us to attend the Cru25 Conference in Wisconsin this past month.  It was such an amazing time of refreshment, vision, training and encouragement as we continue into our 27th year of full-time ministry with Cru!  We cannot believe the blessing it has been to serve full-time all these years with Cru and are so humbled by all the Lord has done in and through us here in Los Angeles these past 27 years.  Thank you for your support and prayers that make it all possible. 

At our Cru Conference we heard great speakers, worshipped the Lord with over 4,000 others, had training days for our specific ministry with Cru Church Movements, attended a Heritage Night honoring those who have been on staff for so many years and connected with so many other staff around the nation and even world! Aleeya loved the kids camp and Jessica worked as a counselor this time for 5th graders! Some of our personal highlights are below!

Divine Opportunities…

*Maria was sitting on the ground next to the Milwaukee River Walk, alone and hungry with no phone or place to go.  She had been lured into a sex trafficked situation from her group home in Washington DC and taken to Wisconsin, where she was abandoned on the side of the road.  Cru co-workers of ours called Michelle and asked her to come to where they had come upon Maria at the Riverwalk and as Michelle sat and spoke to her God was moving.

Maria shared how came from an abusive foster home.  She had been living at a group home after turning 18 and  was recently trafficked by a man she thought loved her.  She shared that as she was sitting on the ground someone approached her and handed her a “How to Know God Personally” booklet.  She began to read it and when she came to the page in the booklet that explained how to ask Jesus into your heart she said she prayed the prayer and began to cry out to God for help.

Right at that moment our co-workers approached her and began to initiate a conversation with her and learned that she needed help.  Maria was in complete awe how the Lord had immediately answered her prayers and was so excited to meet Michelle and find resources and help.  She had no idea there were resources available to help her find hope and healing.  Michelle had brought a bracelet with her that had a hotline number engraved on it – feeling the Lord prompting her to bring it to Wisconsin “just in case she met someone who needed it.”  Maria was the answer to that prompting. 

Michelle and her co-workers were able to sit and talk with Maria, pray with her, encourage her in her new relationship with the Lord and pay for her to take a bus back to her group home to find safety.  Please pray for *Maria.  When she arrived in DC, she called the hotline number on the bracelet and began to find help—pray she would continue to heal and grow in her relationship with the Lord.

Thank you so very much for your continual prayers and support to us over all these years.

 “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever!” Ephesians 3:20-21