(To the right is our welcome week event "Nav Olymplics". This is just 1 or the 10 teams competing in the crazy fun activities. This is just one way that our leaders have opportunities to Live among the lost) We work for the Navigators because of how the calling has been ingrained in our hearts. Even if we weren't on staff, we strongly believe that this would be our life calling. With or without the Navigators we would be following their calling of:
"To advance the Gospel of Jesus Christ and His Kingdom into the nations through spiritual generations of laborers, living and disciplining among the lost."
More specifically the part that we are most passionate about is living and discipling among the lost. As we are getting older and the freshman are younger (yes they are born now in 1991), we are starting to find it harder to just meet students on campus. Despite the obstacles we are noticing with age, this year has been especially fruitful in finding the lost. Lindsey has been taking early morning workout classes at the campus recreation center. From that she is grabbing breakfast with women she is meeting who may or may not know who Christ is. Our prayer and hope is that these women can produce a situation similar to what Rich is experiencing with Liston. More specifically, Rich continues to pour his life out to his colleague Liston and they are starting to read the Bible at lunch. Besides that, God has been providing continual conversations with our student neighbors and scenarios that challenge the generosity of their "friends" compared to what they experience around us and the men upstairs. With these scenarios, God bring us great joy and connection to the Him. The risks we take, the time invested to make the relationship comfortable to talk about God, to opening the Bible together for the first time. This is the excitement we want to share with you as you read this and the praises we have for these opportunities. Thanks for your devotion, love, prayers, and continual support to allow us the time to build these genuine relationships that are nurtured in Christ to share the Gospel to future generations. For both the mission and support, we are truly grateful.
