How God Used You;
We could not do this ministry without our team:
Read more about most in the sections below
- Mission trips to orphanage in Naco, Mexico
-Starting a new Christian Challenge Club at an unreached, super liberal Arizona State University Campus
-Our new leadership
-Meals and fellowship each week!
-Lots of students are being met through ASU events.
-Student leaders are being invested in and trained up.
-We’ve been praying for you.
Made possible by God’s mighty power and your prayers & giving:
New Ministry Opportunity!
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world,” (James 1:27).
We have been working with Sanctuary for a couple years, starting with one student to 40, growing and serving, leading people to Christ and developing leadership. A club on campus has become a church. We’ve baptized, gone on mission trips and enjoyed fellowshipping with each other.
Now we are expanding our ministry to a new campus. All of the leadership God’s allowed us to raise up, Eddie Fearing and Brad Schneeflock will be heading up the Poly campus, and we will be starting a BRAND NEW campus at ASU Downtown with a couple of our Poly students.
Sanctuary under Brad will gain more credibility and we are praying that it will become a model for collegiate church plants in Arizona. We will still be connected with our church, but we will be spending most of our week starting a campus again from nothing. It’s exciting to see ministry expand, especially to a campus like Downtown.
Many majors, including Communication (Jamie and I both graduated with Communication degrees) are moving to Downtown, making it a very strategic campus. Also, considering many ministries and churches have moved from the city into the suburbs, it’s refreshing to get to lead a ministry from the suburbs back into the city. Phoenix is the 6th largest city in the nation, and we are very happy to get to serve there.
Pray that we will get connected with the students God has been preparing, learn the culture of the campus quickly, have leadership come in quickly, meet the right faculty, and glorify God, because He’s the reason we’re there. As we’re very outreach oriented, we would love to vision-cast to students who are already Christians and join with them to make disciples of their unchurched fellow students. Please pray for boldness, etc. And please keep Poly in your prayers as it transitions to new leadership.
New Bible Study with Focus on Mexico
We have started a new “Bible study” which we’re very excited about. We are going to be praying for the kids in the orphanage in Mexico, and learning Spanish on the $500 program, Rosetta Stone that we get to use for FREE, thanks to the Southern Baptist Convention. This way will be able to better connect with the kids, and we set ourselves up for a more long term partnership.
We will be going down for the fourth time July 18th-24th. It’s so exciting, and God has already started to answer our prayers for the trip. We have been praying for a translator and for a connection to get some climbing holds so we could build a climbing wall for the kids. Both of those prayers were answered last night, which is why I’m writing about it now. I’m just excited that we get to do this, and that God is actively putting together our trip.
This has become one of the key ways that we disciple students so that we can get them outside of American Christianity to experience Christ in a different way. It has become a great focal point of the church and we love doing it.
Pray for the summer to be all it can be
We have the summer to finish raising all of our support, preparing to work at ASU Downtown, transitioning leadership into our roles at Poly and getting our house and our lives ready for twins.
We were BLESSED to be able to go to Support Development School and learn that God’s call on our lives to this ministry doesn’t involve us asking for money for ourselves, but asking our team to give to HIS ministry and that the ministry He does through us is worth the extra effort of support raising, because the students we are blessed to minister to are worth it! THANK YOU for enabling this ministry!
Powers Update
Dallas is getting ready to have two brothers. We, as usual, are still discussing names, and as usual Jamie is threatening to leave me off the birth certificate because I like some names that are a little out there. Dallas is excited for two
Thank You for Your Prayers!
Please pray…
-PRAISE Mexico Mission Trips!
- Kim as she’s pregnant in AZ heat and she just moved
- New Phoenix Campus
- Children in Mexico: their Spiritual walks, Christian families to adopt them and documents to be worked out.
- Healing with losing Madison Grace
- Our support
- PRAISE – Sanctuary’s amazing student leaders
- Growth and development during the summer
- Prayer and PRAISE: In-vitro and surrogacy: we’re expecting!
- PRAISE: New church plant
-16 have accepted Christ
- C., G., S., J. & M. to accept Christ
How can we pray for you?
