of two minds...

I love Jesus. My vision for life is "dangerously, obsessively Jesus" ("The Vision" Pete Greig). I love that he loves the wrong people, builds his church on the unqualified, tweaks religious leaders, heals, saves, affirms, listens, teaches, challenges and dispenses grace and judgement. I love that He is God in the flesh, yet defers to His Father. I love that He is God in the flesh, yet points the way to the Spirit. I love that He makes a way for us to be reconciled the Father and have the indwelling of the Spirit AND promises to be with His people until the end of the age. He makes a path for an intimate and reconciled relationship with the Triune God.

I love that He incarnated, observed, was tempted, healed, taught, died, raised from dead and ascended to the Father. I love the He is coming again to set everything right and redeem the world that was created through Him. I love that He never gives up.

I love this world. I love spring days. I love the comrade of a good frisbee game, an adventure or of a campus outreach. I love my friends, Christian and non-Christian alike. I love the way the flowers bloom in my backyard, even though I do nothing for them. I love my wife and my family. I love my cat, the Mariners, Seahawks and even that team in OKC.

I love the people who are angry with religion. I love my gay friends, my mormon friends and single parent friends. I love the agnostic professors I've met.

I love hard work. I love taking on a task that is too big for me to handle. I love reading challenging books, the bible and others. I love conservative pastors, like Joe from PBF and liberal pastors I won't name, because they don't like the label "liberal".

I love church. I hate church.

I love being with homeless people. Homeless people scare me.

I love prayer. I hate saying the same thing over and over.

I love to worship God and feel most alive when I do so. I hate simplistic songs that are more about me than God.

I want to be orthodox. I want to be unique.

I believe in unearned, undeserved grace. I believe my life is never good enough.

I believe my Father (both of them) loves me. I believe that I am a disappointment.

I believe God never gives up on you. I often think that God has given up on me.

I don't know if I believe in the Rapture. I believe every word of Revelation is true.

I believe in a new heaven and a new earth and that it is important that we start the bible at the beginning and end it at the end.

I believe in hell. I don't know who goes there, if we choose to be there or if God puts us there.

I believe in spiritual battles. I don't always now which side my beliefs are on.

I believe everyone I know would love Jesus if they met him. I'm not sure how to arrange the introduction.

I think I lose track of what's important much of the time. I think that God is good about reminding me.

I love Jesus. I love that I don't have a handle on Him. I miss Him when I wander. I want be with Him and I want to be here. I want Him here. I want to introduce my friends to Him. I want to eat with Him. I want Him to continue to blow my mind and my expectations.

I love the Spirit. I want the Spirit to lead me to hard truths. To convict me and affirm me. I want see the Spirit move with power and intimacy. I want the Spirit to teach me to pray...even if that means I need to re-learn honesty.

I love the Father. I love that He sent His Son instead of taking Abraham's. I love that He waits for the lost son (or daughter) and runs out to greet them...no questions asked.

conversion

Today InterVarsity in the Northwest is hosting an evangelistic event at Oregon State University and Washington State University. This same event will be happening at Washington State University on Friday.

I often struggle with words like "evangelism". I asked my students on Monday what words come to mind when they hear the word. "Pushy", "old men with green bibles", "televangelists" and "awkward" came to mind. My pastor loves to tell me that when he was in college an eager student rushed to tell him the Four Spiritual Laws, without first asking him if he was a Christian. Many years later he still tells this story and it obviously affects him.

But, evangelism is not inherently bad. A student whom I greatly respect, who happens to be Baha'i came to IV's Winter Conference this weekend. She heard a lot about sharing faith and the word evangelism thrown about. At first I was really concerned about whether she was offended by all the evangelistic language and I wished that the speaker would cool it a little bit. However, I began to realize that Christianity IS an inherently evangelistic faith. We believe Jesus told us to "make disciples of all nations". We believe that Jesus is the permanent passover, that he is the permanent embodiment the lamb's blood that cause the angel of death to pass over the Jewish homes during the passover. We believe that if his death is accepted, we get passed over and even better, we believe that he rose again and that he will create new life in us.

There is not much about the Christian faith that works if it held closely to the heart, but never shared. We are encouraged to share out of the humility that we are not God and cannot offer anything to the world that God has not first given to us.

Yes, evangelism is often awkward. Yes, evangelism without humility and listening, is de-humanizing and rude. Yes, when one is "sharing the gospel" we may be stepping into a world of messy history with the church and we better be ready to repent of some broken history.

But...I am a product of evangelism. I am a product of people who invited me to Bible study, shared their lives with me, never blinked when I dropped f-bombs, rejoiced when I converted and were patient with me as I figured out what that meant. Converting to Christianity is the most important decision I have ever made. It changed the entire trajectory of my life and has changed me from the inside out. I am thankful that I was evangelized to.

This morning 5 people at OSU have responded and decided to accept Jesus' sacrifice and lifestyle. They have agreed to meet other Christians and start the process of figuring out what this decision means. Unlike Saturday morning, I have no ambivalence about this. I am excited and my heart is swelling out towards OSU and the new life that is emerging there.

I would appreciate prayers on Friday. WSU students will be joined by Whitman and University of Idaho students. Staff will be on site at these Proxe stations, but students will be talking to students. Please pray that the Spirit will be bring students that have been seeking truth this year. Please pray students would be bold and full of real love. Please pray that all students who come to these stations would feel listened to and cared about, regardless of their responses. Please pray that God's will would be done, at WSU as in heaven.

Tablets

Last week my dad emailed me about a cheap internet tablet by a company name Velocity. It was $200 and my dad wanted to know if I thought that it was a good buy.

My initial response was "no way"! Obviously there is an iPad and a 1,000 cheap knock offs. However, my dad is more frugal (and less susceptible to clever advertising) so I checked it out.

What did I find? A nice little tablet that was, admittingly, slightly underpowered and hampered by the lack of Android Marketplace. The tab ran at 600 mghz, had a nice 7' capacitive touch screen and runs flash as well as an iPad (which is to say, not at all). It came packed with a Kindle app and apparently was great for browsing the internet, which seems to be 90% of the reason to own a tablet. Not bad.

A little more searching and I found a tab from a company name eLocity. This tab has an hdmi out port, a Tegra dual core processor (faster than Apple's "magical" device), bluetooth, a usb port, a removable battery and upgradable storage. Total cost: $300.

Now the point of this post is not an endorsement for elocity's tablet, the point is the power of advertising and peer pressure. It's highly debatable that internet tablets are wise or prudent purchases, but they are fun and have a certain amount of fun appeal. However, this emerging market is becoming synonymous with the iPad. Apple did this before with iPod, but anyone who likes techy toys should be very happy that Apple was challenged by competitors. Without competition, Apple would still likely have iTunes music locked out for other players and we would be paying $500 for the player itself. In spite of challenges from Microsoft, Creative and others, Apple still refuses to allow easy battery replacements.

Worse than anything else, Apple will announce a new iPad next week. Likely it will have an retina (hd) display and a front facing camera. The screen doesn't matter, but the camera does, as video conferencing is becoming the norm. Those millions of units that have launched this year will be obsolete. Call me cynical, but given how "all in" Apple has been on front facing cameras this year, it seems like they knew this change was coming. This is the definition of "planned obsolescence".

Apple is in many ways the least consumer friendly major company in the US, but they make some sexy products and clever commercials. The message that we learn from Apple is that everything they make is sexy and good, while other products are cheap and knock-offs.

And I have to confess they caught me on the tablet thing.

Deron Williams to the Nets

So let me get this straight, the Nets get a MUCH better player than Melo, for 2/3 of the cost. Crazy.

Can you imagine if the Knicks had gotten Williams? I seem to remember that elite PG's work out pretty well with D'Antoni...

Fun deadline. Now if only the Team that Shall Not be Named can pick up Randolph or Camby...

knowing

In the church we talk about discerning God's will for our lives. Often times we view discovering your "calling" to be the highest end of faith. You can't stop a Christian who knows what she should be doing!

This quest is a good one in many ways. After all, I don't think anyone is really going to argue that purposed, directed life is more pleasant that aimless wandering. I think that living for something bigger than yourself will ultimately trump just doing the next thing blindly till you die.

I do, however, worry that this quest to "know" is in some ways a dangerous one. It seems for me, knowing that I am pursuing my calling can leave me ill-equipped for hard times.

"But I thought knowing was supposed to make things easier?"

"Doesn't pursuing my calling mean that I am going to be taken care of physically, spiritually and economically?"

What is the good of "knowing" if knowing doesn't create a list of guarantees?

This mentality also leads me to endlessly try and interpret what circumstances mean. I am constantly trying to control my life and my God by knowing what a bad fundraising month, a great campus bible study, a broken ankle, a great date with Donan, or an agonizing fight mean. Everything has to have a larger context...right? Isn't the ability to make sense of life the whole point of being a Christian?

Actually, no.

Job was caught in the middle of an argument between God and the Devil. Did he get to know the larger context? No.

Abram endured years and years (and years) of promises from God that he would be a great nation. Why did God wait years to fulfill that promise? Because He did. Everything else is conjecture and speculation.

Jews (mostly) in the early part of the first century got to experience the glory of God in the flesh. Those born twenty years early didn't.

God's name is ultimately "I am who I am" and "I am" does what He does.

And that reality drives me crazy. I want God to answer to me. I want God to tell me why. I want him to give me divine interpretation for the times that I am in. And when he is done telling me why my life is what it is like, then I want him to go ahead a let me in how to best understand atonement, let me know if free will exists, whether or not there was a second shooter on the Grassy Knoll and whether or not debates about evolution or politics really matter.

He stubbornly refuses these requests.

Because I am not God.

He doesn't answer to me.

Or to you.

Or to Job.

Or to Abram.

Or to those who seemingly were born 20 years too early (or too late).

So what does God promise?

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:25-34

Freedom.

I need freedom from knowing.

I need freedom expecting God to tell me why he does.

I need freedom from the belief that my value is directly related to how well I can answer questions; internally and externally.

God can provide for himself, the rest of us our dependent. That reality is either the terror we will run from and hide from for the rest of our days or the freedom that will set us free.

Oh God, I need to be free.

Hope

Lately God has been telling me to be an optimist.

This doesn't seem like the radical of a call. Most of my life I have been considered an optimist. Even when I was shy kid in Junior High with no friends, I am not sure that I was depressed. When I was in High School, while I was not really involved in anything, I was mostly content and occasionally happy. In college, I actually chose to hope and believe that Jesus might really not be dead. he decision put me on the path of making other optimistic choices; going to China, dating Donan, bringing up my faith life to friends and eventually going on staff with InterVarsity.

However, faced with harsh realities in life I have grown less optimistic, less childlike and ultimately, more practical.

My mind reverberates with phrases like; "realistic goals" and "incremental changes". I have even had people at my church tell that I have grown up. Their evidence? That I don't talk about changing the world as much anymore and I seem more grounded.

How do you pray grounded prayers? How can a grounded person believe in foolishness like resurrection from the dead? How can groundedness and transformation co-exist?

My groundedness is born from my deeply held desire to no taste disappointment. Too often I have watched people I love make poor choices. Too often I have believed that I have been "fixed" only to struggle again. Too often I believed in a miracle that God has chosen not to perform (at least not how I hoped He would).

So day by day, year by year my life becomes less audacious and more practical. Practicality becomes a vice grip on my lungs and I learn to breathe shallowly.

And ultimately, God becomes smaller and smaller.

So now, God is asking me to learn how to hope again. The image God has given me? A balloon.

I have become taken with the image a balloon being released from a child's hand and floating up, up and away. A balloon, completely subject to the wind has become the rallying image for my heart.

I want to fly far from the ground. I want to believe in a God who can do the impossible. I want to live an impossible life. I want to live in a disappointing world with counter-cultural, ballsy optimism. I want optimism to become as much of a spiritual discipline as praying or reading the Bible.

So I am trying to re-learn hope. I am asking God to teach me the ways of hope. I know that hope will often leave a person looking foolish and naive, but what do I have to lose?

After all, I already believe that a dead guy didn't stay dead.

24 Hour Prayer Tent: October 1, 2010

Our tent was on the Glen Terrell Mall and open from midnight to midnight. Over 35 students and staff attended the tent. InterVarsity partnered with campus chapters of International Justice Mission and World Vision ACT:s as well as other campus ministries. Because of this amazing partnership, we had two people pray almost every hour for 24 hours!

Highlights of Comments in Prayer Tent Guest book

• So excited to see God's people present and not afraid to pray. Let's pray big prayers, for God to do big things, with strong belief in their fulfillment.
• God is powerful and good. It is good to be in fellowship with other believers.
• Lord, I pray to heal the sick and the suffering. Make use of your servants to solve the injustices and do your word. You are the Almighty and I cry out to you to end what troubles my heart.
• Thank you for doing this. God knowns the world could always use a little more prayer and divine assistance.
• It is awesome that you guys are raising awareness of these things and that you give people an opportunity to pray on campus for something that is so important.
• Favorite scripture passage, "Jesus wept." We know the problems of injustice firsthand. His compassion and love can guide any movement for justice.
• To really experience life to the fullest we must STOP the thing that are wrong in our lives. Take a good look around, ask God to BREAK our hearts and begin to change the wrongs in the world.
• I feel compelled to follow and be where God wants me to be. Helping those who have experienced so much pain and suffering.
• Prayer tent is the best tent on campus.
• We had a guy come to talk with us. He said he felt lead to come here tonight. It was interested because we had just finished praying that someone would come in. We prayed with him and it was a great interaction.
• We talked to a professor for almost an hour. One of the things we talked about was community and quiet and how technology limits our ability to have both. He was very interesting to talk to-- he said he had come to be at the university because he liked discussion and questioning of the academic world. He said he was disappointed at the lack of discussion here.
• We need to serve God on His terms, not ours. If he tells us to go, we should go. He will always take care of us so we shouldn't be afraid to follow God. And, prayer tents are awesome!

christian consumerism

JESUS IS LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if you know this is true press like. :) on ♥

This is a link that I saw on Facebook yesterday. Many of my friends posted it and thus it ended up on my profile a few times.

I find myself hesitant to "like" it.

It may be my rebellious nature, but I am hesitant to "like" Christian statements...even ones that I agree with like the one above. I think that I feel pressured, which I don't like very much. I also feel like this mouse click becomes the determiner of whether or not I am Christian or love Jesus. Isn't the Christian life supposed to be about a lot more than facebook statuses or liking or disliking statements? Isn't a worldview that has been dangerous enough to get people killed consistently for 2000 years something that cannot be captured in a single line?

I was curious enough about this particular status to click the the heart button though.

What I found was a page that ranking the number of "likes" various statements had achieved. "Jesus is Lord" was along side statements about being "badass" or various "this person is hotter than this person" ideas. And what else was on that page...ads. Ads equal revenue on the web.

So what I realized was that liking "Jesus is Lord" really meant giving money to some organization that Facebook has reported is phishing and installing malware on people's computers.

I have no beef with saying "Jesus is Lord". Saying so in the 1st century was actively affirming Jesus over Ceaser. This is a statement that is dripping in revolution and power. It just makes me sad that this statement is now used to target Christians for computer hacking and financial gain. I think Christians (myself included!) are so ready to affirm what we believe in words, that we can feel like we are not faithful or bold if we are hesitant to agree with every Christian statement or email that comes our way.

I believe that we affirm or deny Jesus' Lordship in how we live. Having more "likes" than someone else, or find 1,000,000 Christians doesn't really further Jesus' Kingdom. How we love others does. How we serve others does. Introducing people to Jesus they haven't met with scripture study does.

I will gladly be used by somebody, if that will show the sacrificial love of Jesus, but not so that some company can make a few bucks.

I Believe

i believe...

I believe in God. He is good, fair and just. I believe that he is the embodiment of love. I believe that the world was created out of the abundance of that love.

I believe that Jesus is God's son and is God himself. I believe that Jesus lived in most dynamic, perfect and revolutionary life that can be lived. I believe he was executed for being too dynamic, perfect and revolutionary. I believe that he rose from the dead and that when he died he got what we had coming. I believe that him coming back from the dead is what we now have coming.

I believe in God's Spirit. I believe that God exists in the world now. Is doing stuff now. Is healing hearts and bodies now.

I believe in damage. I believe that the world that was created out of love has been damaged. I believe that people want more than they need or are entitled to. They want more stuff, power and escape than they can handle. I believe that damage is fueled by a spiritual enemy who is just as spiteful and greedy as God is loving.

I believe that nothing has to stay dead.

I believe that everything can be restored.

I believe that I am never allowed be violent towards someone else. I am not to wield my power against them.

I believe that God has a Kingdom. It looks like Jesus, stretched out over/under everything.

I believe that God's Kingdom is my home and my nationality.

I believe that fear and guilt are evidence of the damage, not of the Kingdom.

I believe that God doesn't make people love or live with him. But invites everyone to.

I believe that I am inadequate.

I believe that I am infinitely valuable.

I believe that the Kingdom is a welfare state.

I believe that good and beautiful things belong to God.

I believe that God is a creator and he loves when we create.

I believe that God is not intimidated questions. I believe that his enemy is terrified by them.

I believe that God weeps.

I believe that God laughs.

I believe that God angers.

I believe that God relents.

I believe that God is curious.

I believe that God is fascinated.

I believe that God is not satisfied.

I believe that God loves me more than my wife does.

I believe that people are supposed to be together, with God.

I believe that people are not supposed to hate other people. That offends God.

I believe that people should not be the ones who make seeing God harder.

I believe that Jesus came so that people could see God.

I believe that Jesus started church so that people could still see God.

I believe that church can help people see God still.

I believe that Jesus lived simply. I believe that matters.

I believe that Jesus lived with people.

I believe that Jesus spent time with good people.

I believe that Jesus spent time with bad people.

I believe that Jesus forgave people.

I believe that Jesus gave purpose to people.

I believe that Jesus offended people that he loved.

I believe that Jesus was honest.

I believe that Jesus only yelled at religious people.

I believe that Jesus didn't squelch curiosity.

I believe that Jesus wasn't racist or sexist.

I believe that Jesus was too beautiful to ignore.

I believe that Jesus was too beautiful to live.

I believe that Jesus is still alive.

I believe the church is supposed to look like Jesus.

I believe the church can look like Jesus.

Day 4

Missed yesterday. In my defense though, I left my house at 8AM and got home at 10PM.

75 "perfect" push ups and planks
2 Samuel 15 and 16.

David's son started a rebellion against him and drove David out of the kingdom. People who are loyal to Saul's family have taken the chance to mock David for being an illegitimate king.

I wonder how I would feel if my son had betrayed me and I was driven away? How would the voices of my legitimacy land in my heart? Would I believe that God had grown tired of me?

Out.

Day 2

Read: 2 Samuel 10-14

Work our: push ups and sit ups

So today's scripture was ripe with sexual sin. David's affair with Bathsheba was the most famous passage that I read today. David got caught being a peeping tom while another man's wife was sun bathing. Being king, he was able to ask her over and sleep with her. She became pregnant and David arranged for the murder of her husband. It is a pretty ugly episode for the "man after God's heart" who has been given the Holy Spirit.

The second story of sexual sin is much less famous, but in my opinion is far more interesting. David's son Amnon falls in love (or is it obsession) with his sister Tamar. He fakes sick in order to rape her. After he rapes her he instantly begins to hate her.

I found this shift from infatuation to hatred fascinating. This seems to be so true when it comes to sexual sin. You want something, you are fixated on something, you long for something, all you can think about is those things and then you have it...and hate replaces the fixation. Self-hate, hate for God, hate for the person and hate for the situation all fill the place where fixation was before.

I think that it is like that with every lust. You want that car. You read all the reviews. You dream about that car. Then you get it and it is awesome. Until it starts to pull to the right while you drive. Then the car is crap and you begin to hate it. I do this with cell phones. I have seen people do this with living rooms. And this passage reminds us that people do this people.

Out.

discipline day 1

So today is technically day one of my discipline time (since I am off of vacation).

Read: 2 Samuel 7-10
Ran: 2.25 mile run

Today's reading was pretty interesting. David took Saul's grandson in and God made a covenant with David to "build him a house".

Run was tiring. I don't run with the sun up too often. I am not sure if I am out of shape or just not a morning runner.

One thought: discipline is not magic. I had hoped that reading and running would make transitioning into a day of fundraising easier. Not so much. I still stalled after breakfast and avoided the stress of the day by overclocking to the processor on my cell phone. I am hoping that discipline will seep into the rest of my life. It is my prayer that God would help me be more prov-active and less reactive during this season. I hoping that discipline will make space for this transformation.

Out.

discipline

This will be a quick post, due to the fact that I am on vacation in Canada (supposedly camping, but Sean and I ended up in the Canadian version of Bend).

I need discipline to survive. I felt remarkably un-stressed at Summit, but as soon as returning to Moscow to "rest" my stress returned. I think that stress pushes me away from discipline and discipline. As Fat Bastard would say, "it's a vicious cycle".

So plan of action; between now and the beginning of the school year I will:

• Read two chapters of scripture per day
• Work out 6 days a week
• Blog that I did it and a quick thought

This will begin for real on Monday, but today I continued in 1 Samuel 16-17. David was anointed king, Goliath was killed and the Spirit of God left Saul to live with David. I think that it was a big deal that David killed Goliath because the Spirit was in him and not just because he was a stud. I am curious how much the Spirit of God leaving Saul leads him down the road towards hunting David down. I think that when we teach David about Saul and David, we need to talk more about the Spirit. Seems like a big deal.

Sean and I went on a six-mile hike.

And I blogged!

Jeremiah Out.

the correction of missions

Hello. Long time, no blog.

It is amazing to me how much of your view of the world can be based on who you choose to compare yourself to. One of the core values of Summit (recent two week urban plunge) was simplicity. The question is; simplicity in comparison to whom? It is easy to find people that I live more simply than and it is easy to ignore people who have really chosen to live a simple life. I can spend most of my year reveling in my own relative simplicity. I can scoff at others who are more wasteful and materialistic than myself.

This is of course why I need mission trips.

I need to see that others do not get to choose their level of simplicity, it is a choice that has been made for them. I need to spend some time really living by needs and become struck by how little I miss my toys. I need to what drives people to work long hours for $60 a month (and room and board). I need to see that is actually possible to live differently.

Consumerism is something that we breathe in all the time. We are advertised to constantly. The video we see, the print we read and the sounds we hear all tell us what we need and currently don't have. I am aware of the ads that I reject, but what about the other hundred ads that I barely notice until they have found a home in my desire? Is it possible to long for God and toys at the same time?

At Summit, we eat on $6 per day, per person. You can barely go to McDonald's on that. But we do it. We labor together on dinner. Eat together and clean up together. We work for our housing. We live in a space that is enough. We eat food that is enough. We cut our extraneous noise so that we can hear God. We serve others after getting enough sleep.

For four weeks this summer I was able to experience what it is like to live by enough. Now I am back in the world that tries to convince me that I need excess and that right now I do not really have enough.

Without the call of mission I am not sure that I would have the discipline to reorient. And how long can one last between reorientation? Weeks? Months? Years? What does 20 years of no reorientation look like? Where do you end up at the end of that journey? I suspect that you end up consumed by what you don't have. I suspect that you end worried about having enough all the time.

Mother Teresa said that we invented poverty because we don't share. I don't think that we fail to share because we are greedy, but because we are scared. I think that fear blinds us to what we have and what we need.

Mission creates freedom because mission creates in us the difference between God and world's definition of enough.

Prayer Letter June 2010

Summit is a two week urban project designed to explore core InterVarsity values. We spend six hours a day volunteering with local service agencies. We spend two hours each afternoon in prayer, praying for transformation in the neighborhood as well as in our own lives. We live simply, cooking our own meals with healthy and filling ingredients. We limit our cell phone usage so that we can spend more time with each other. We study scripture together to learn more about the character of God and His heart for the world. We watch videos about individuals who have lived out these values in their lives like Mother Teresa. For two weeks, we soak students in the values of simplicity, prayer, community and service. They leave in a process of transformation. A few highlights from students:

• “I learned a lot about prayer and I think that as I spend much more time in prayer, that God will change my life.”
• “Summit has changed my perspective on how to approach intimacy with God. As I leave, the greatest change will be in my daily walk with God. I know now my need to daily surrender my power to God as an act of dependence and invite him in to speak and work.”

Year in Review…

- In August, Jeremiah and Donan hosted “Sexy Pizza,” a Q and A on sex and the bible. 75 students at WSU attended.

- In October, WSU and UI students attended annual Fall Conference and encountered God in new ways.

- 6 students from University of Idaho attended Urbana, a national missions conferences.

- 2 Greek women from WSU attended InterVarsity’s national Greek conference in Charlotte.

- WSU InterVarsity grows from 5 at the beginning of the year to 10!

- 4 WSU students and 3 UI students attended Summit.

Thank you for your partnership in seeing lives changed, campuses transformed and world changers developed!!