I am ordering books for my team of student leaders to work through next year: Tim Keller's book Prayer and Sophie de Witt's discipleship book One-to-One. I'm ordering 6 copies of each.
I would love to invite you to sponsor a copy or two you can give a one-off gift of $15 or $30.
Australian: Click Here to Give
United States/UK (tax deduction): Click Here to Give
I will write your name in the front cover so that students will know that you have blessed them with their copy of the book and have invested in the learning, training and discipleship.
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In 2020, I plan to host 4 events for YOU, my prayer and financial supporters to come and learn together. I will present some of the content and workshop/electives I've led for the students and also take you through a history of women serving on mission in the church throughout the centuries. Stay tuned for more information in the Facebook group and these email updates.
Family
My family and I have just returned from our pilgrimage (every 3 years) to visit my grandmother who lives in the high dessert north of Los Angeles. My parents (missionaries in Germany) also flew out from Germany to join us. We enjoyed early morning donut runs, warm weather and piddling about with family on nature walks, Native American museum, playing with old-school Barbies and lunches at the local rural airport diner.
I did my best to check-out of work-mode and be 100% present, enjoying my family.
Ella and Olivia loooooooooooved Chick-fil-A and swimming in my auntie's pool. Locals thought they were nuts as the water was too cold for them but not for us Tasmanians.
Mike reconnected with some cyclying buddies from last time and participated in a race our first weekend there.
Please pray for that region of the US. They are currently experiencing devastating wild fires that began while we were there.
Connecting and Investing
In August, I worked with a local church's elders and church members to begin an ongoing conversation to identify and equip and empower and encourage the men and women in their congregation into leadership positions that were available to them. The elders had observed a gender imbalance in certain church roles and welcomed the opportunity to help them fill these gaps for the sake of the gospel so that both men and women were complementing each other in the mission of the church to see their community know Jesus and become mature followers of Jesus. In return, the church blessed me by investing in my work on campus with university students.
While in America with my family this past month, I've also welcomed new financial supporters bringing up the monthly financial support by $200 per month. The missions coordinator at the church we attended also invited me to keep them posted and send through more information about how they can pray and support my work.
If you'd like to invest in my work through regular, ongoing financial support, please click on the buttons below.
Giving Back to You
Sharing resources is my way of giving back to you and supporting your own relationship with Jesus and your church family and your own ministry. All links have been shared in Christine: Behind the Scenes. Join us in the group to discuss how the content might affect our lives and gospel work.
The Early Church Thrived Amid Secularism and Shows How We Can, Too: "Faithful Christians have gone before us, bearing witness to the truth of Christianity, the power of the gospel, and the high calling of discipleship. Calling out across the centuries, they tell us that it is possible now, as it was then, to live as faithful followers of Jesus the Lord in a culture that does not approve of it or reward it."
Evangelizing Youth in a Selfie Age: [AUDIO] “The thing about the Narcissus myth is that Narcissus wasn’t just in love with himself; he was in love with the image of himself. I think that’s very interesting in an Instagram age—we fall in love not even with ourselves, but with the curated image of ourselves we project into the world. And yet it’s so empty, it’s so hollow. So you’ve got this really interesting disjunction between investing in an image and, at the same time, the prizing of authenticity.” — Glen Scrivener
The Cross Is Our Stairway to Heaven: "Our salvation was not a transactional matter of a horizontal fix. We are those who have been rescued from a vertical drop. Our salvation comes not from someone on our level, but from someone infinitely above it. How great his condescension! How high and wide and long and deep. And so we confess the source and location of this salvation: 'I lift up my eyes to the mountains—where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord.'”
The (Successful) Pursuit of God: "As Tozer wrote himself, 'Our pursuit of God is successful just because he is forever seeking to manifest himself to us.' This is a generous view of God, more generous than Tozer embodied perhaps. Because I have to believe that the manifestation of God isn’t limited to hours prostrate on the floor or the neglect of a family in zealous pursuit of ministry."
Upcoming Speaking Events
3 November - Good News Christian Church (missions spot)
22 November - St. Johns Presbyterian Church (youth group)
29 November - 4 December - AFES National Training Event (NTE): Strand 12 Leader
