Experiencing God

I have really been experiencing God through intense times with Him. I have been really excited to spend time with Him whenever I can. I feel as though He is really working and moving in my life. I desire transformation in my life, and He is responding by bringing that transformation in many different ways. Danny

role model

Will has really been a role model for me these last couple of weeks. After staying with him in Boulder and then talking with him the weeks following, I have a huge appreciation for his honesty and how he handles situations. In particular I have been amazed by how he has handled the situation with Amanda. Thanks for leading in that dude. Danny

Experiencing God

I have experienced God as ministry has just exploded this semester with the athletes! I am so thankful for the opportunities he has given me to go deeper with athletes from different teams and am eagerly awaiting what else he has in store! ~Mik

Role models on my team...

Each person on my team has been a role model and an example to me. To be more specific, Elizabeth has been so great to have this year! I am so thankful for the experience she brings to the team and how she has shepherded me, especially this semester :)
~Mik

Staff account balance...

When I look at my staff account balance and contributions, I am SO thankful for the faithful supporters the Lord has provided! It amazes me how God has always provided for me, even after purchasing a home last year and raising my salary. ~Mik

When students don't respond like I hoped for, I...

get discouraged. But then I realize I can't have impossible standards, or expect perfection from people. I have to remember that God is the one in control, the one who changes lives, not me. It reminds me to be on my knees even more. ~Mik

When I look at my staff account balance and contributions I...

Well a few weeks ago I would cry...pull all my hair out...light things on fire. But now it is a time of blessing and I am so thankful and grateful to the Lord. I do realize how much we still need the Lord to provide for and we are asking him for that of course but when I look at the account I see how we have what we need and thats all we ask.

When I look at my staff account balance and contributions, I . . .

. . . wonder how I am going to make it another month. God has miraculously provided in the past and I know He will provide but I know that I can't just sit back and let it happen. It's hard to not know how He is going to provide, and who He is going to provide through.
I am super blessed and thankful though. Because I went into last summer not knowing how he was going to provide but He did. And I stressed out during and after the summer trying figure out what I could do. Thankfully He blessed me through those next several people I asked.
-David

When students don't respond like I'd hoped I...

At first I probably think that I either did something wrong or could have done something better. Not that I did something wrong to them but that I could have approached something differently. Of course we want the best for every student so when someone doesnt' respond how we'd like its a little sad. But I know that God has them in their hands a lot more than I have the student in mine. So I like that.

Rybo

When students don't respond like I hoped for, I...

am usually disappointed, but rarely do I get hung up on the disappointment. What usually happens though, is that I then question my expectations. It's hard because I don't think I have high expectations, and that they are expectations that I have heard passed down from leadership. So there is this friction between what we are aiming for, and then what is reality.
David

When students don't respond like I hoped for, I...

am usually disappointed, but rarely do I get hung up on the disappointment. What usually happens though, is that I then question my expectations. It's hard because I don't think I have high expectations, and that they are expectations that I have heard passed down from leadership. So there is this friction between what we are aiming for, and then what is reality.

When I look at my staff account balance and contributions, I...

It makes me anxious. I always feel like I'm behind in support and I get depressed.

When Students Don't Respond Like I Hoped For, I...

I have a hard time not feeling like It's personal against me. I know that that's a problem and I need to get better at extending grace and having realistic expectations about them.

When I look at my staff account balance and contributions, I ....

...I am thankful. I see the Lord's continued and constant provision to us. I am also aware that I need to stay on top of these relationships with our ministry partners and raise new support. - Palf

Staff Account

When I look at my staff account balance and contributions, I am grateful for how the Lord has provided. I also see how he provides exactly what I need for each month. However, I would like for the monthly contributions to be a little higher. When I look at my account, I always tense up, because I realize I'm barely breaking even each month. I want to stay ahead of the game and raise new support before I need it.

-Laurie

When students don't respond like I hope for, I...

...tend to get discouraged initially. I struggle with being performance-oriented, so I feel a personal sense of failure when students don't respond in the way I had hoped. I generally respond this way when I'm not walking in the Spirit. I try to perform in ministry out of my own power, and that generally fails no matter what I do. When I am filled with the Spirit, relying on Him to work through me, it is much easier to continue trusting the Lord even when students don't respond how I had hoped. I do like to step back and evalute why they didn't respond well, but I can separate my own performance from the situation and look at things through the Lord's eyes.

-Laurie

When Students Don't Respond Like I Hoped for, I...

...get disappointed. I've had this happen a lot, especially in regards to DCC and other conference/retreat recruiting. It's really hard for me when they don't come or don't show up because I really believe that these events will bring a lot of truth and freedom to their lives. I think I am growing in my capacity to not get disappointed, but I'm still in progress. - Palf

Taking a day with the Lord is. . .

most of the time refreshing. There has been several times though that I feel like I am forcing it, and I walk away with any particular warm fuzzy 'feelings.' And its then when I doubt my time with the Lord, I wonder if Jesus ever felt that when he got away. . . if He would ever walk away not feeling any closer to God. It doesn't seem like it. It may be better to look at someone who wasn't fully God. . . How about David, he wrote Psalms and several of those were written out of frustration and I am sure He didn't feel anything warm and fuzzy after his times with the Lord.

My Sleep, Exercise and eating habits are...

Really good, I am feel like I have got back into a grove after a long break of being in transition and conferences. It is my goal to cook a little more and eat even better at home. I feel like the only reason I don't, is because I don't know how to. I would love to cook something new every two weeks, and I have yet to start but I WILL get there soon. :)
~David

Staff account and contributions

When I look at my staff account balance and contributions, I really see the Lord at work in ministry when it is going great. I am so quick to follow the ups and downs of MPD rather than look to the Lord to provide. I always have to remember that I am called to this ministry, and that the Lord would not call me to this ministry and not provide the funding. It is such a blessing when my account is full and looking great, or when an ask for funding goes really well. I have truly been blessed lately by the Lord using our supporters to drop notes of encouragement. I recently had a supporter send a note to Nicole congratulating her for getting into nursing school, and then telling us how proud she is of what we are doing here on campus and what a blessing it is to be involved. It was truly a blessing from the Lord to lift our spirits and give us energy.

Danny

Students responding differently than hoped.

I find it very tough to experience students responding differently than hoped for when it is negative. When I prepare and then share with a student and they do not respond as I have prayed or hoped for, I often find myself asking God why. He then ever so gently reminds me that all things are in His hands, and there is a purpose and plan in everything. On the other side of the coin when students respond positively and I thought it would be a negative reaction it really blesses me. I find myself taking credit for something that the Lord has done sometimes and others I do give Him the praise. It reminds me that I constantly must check my attitude towards what I have been doing and what the Lord has been doing.
Danny

My Financial Partners Know...

My financial partners know that I am involved with ministry and that I hang out with students at college. But sometimes I don't think they know much more than that. Once last year I was eating dinner with my cousin Troy (we are very close friends) and his wife. I was telling them about what I was up to and about a few things going on on campus. I was making sure that they had been getting my newsletters and asked them if they enjoyed them. Troy's wife said that they had but that she hadn't had much time to read them but she assured me that she loved the pictures. "Keep sending more pictures" she said. While I was talking, about some of the things included in my newsletter she stopped me and asked "what is it again that you do".
I want to make sure my partners know what is going on in my ministry and I want them to know what type of battle we are fighting on our campus. They need to know. I hope that they want to know but it seems that maybe the pictures are all that some of them care about and all that they need to be satisfied with how their money is being used for the Kingdom. When I go to my church at home, most people smile and say its good to see you but hardly any of them ask me what ministry is like on the Mizzou campus.

Dustin