Welcome Back!

It's freezing. Just like it is every January, and you hardy folks have migrated back to your frigid campuses, ready and eager (maybe) to start a new semester. We're glad to have you back.

We're advertising this blog a little more, so some of you have never surfed over here before today. Thanks for stopping by (and stay classy too). We hope this is a place you'll return to often, as we'll have new posts at least once a week. This is a forum we hope to use to communicate vision and direction for Campus Crusade in Pittsburgh - where we're going and what we're doing - and to share ministry tips and help, as well as some things God is teaching us. We hope and pray that God would use the thoughts spilled out here to encourage, challenge, and bless you. Come back often!

And one last note for now. This semester should be an awesome one. As a staff team, the 4 areas we'll be focusing on most are Prayer, Evangelism, Launching, and Funding. In prayer, we hope to see your heart for prayer to expand and to see more of you gathering together regularly to seek God for your campus and our city. In Evangelism, we'll have some exciting outreaches and opportunities for you to gain experience sharing your faith, and take bold steps to have meaningful spiritual conversations with friends. We're praying that this will be the semester that we share the Gospel more than any other! In Launching, we're trusting God and taking the step of faith to launch 7 new ministries on 7 different campuses in the first 7 weeks of the semester. So we'll be driving all over the place, meeting new students, and looking for open doors at these schools: Robert Morris, California U of PA, Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Carlow, CCBC, CCAC-Boyce, and Washington & Jefferson. If you have friends at one of those schools, let us know, and by all means please pray that God would open doors there! In Funding - well, don't worry about it, it's boring and it doesn't need to be on your radar. Just know that we hope to raise lots of funds that will enable us to do more evangelism, have high-quality materials, give you some price breaks on conferences and retreats, and go new places in Pittsburgh and on your campus with the Gospel.

Here's to an awesome semester! Adieu til next week...

--Jason