We’re in the Rockies!

We just got here to Fort Collins and are adjusting to the altitude. The dorm we are living is on the edge of the mountains and we’re on the 10th floor of the dorm. It’s wierd to be living in a dorm again. We’ll be here for six weeks for our seminary classes and staff conference. Classes start on Sunday. We are going to relax and get some rest and drink lots of water. It’s like 95 degrees out here and really dry. Let us know how we can pray for you.

We are in Saint Louis as these picture will prove. It probably doesn’t prove anything, cause I could have taken stock photo of the Arch. Can you believe it cost six bucks to park there. At least I got a bunch of cool pictures there. Maybe you’ll find them someday on a stock photo site. It’s beautiful here. We are staying in a bed and breakfast across from the oldest park west of the Mississippi. The owner of the B&B is sitting by his little fish pond holding his multi-colored parrot. There are are two dozen chirping birds singing in the ivy twenty feet from our balcony. I could put a picture here, but it’s more fun to imagine. Tomorrow, we will be driving through Kansas, the state that is wider than Pennsylvania, flatter than Pennsylvania, and windier than Pennsylvania. We’re going to try to make it through to Colorado tomorrow, but we’ll see.

Every Thursday at 4 o’clock, Jen and I met to read the Bible together and talk about life issues. Jen recently got married so often the topic of the day revolved around being a godly wife and God’s design for marriage.Every Wednesday at 5 o’clock, Jen met with Audrey to study the Word and pray together. Jen helped Audrey grow strong in her faith and make good decisions. Often they talked about purity in relationships. Every Thursday at 1 o’clock, Audrey met with Meghan to help her learn about God and apply the Bible to her everyday life. She helped Meghan take her first steps in her new faith. Next year Meghan and her friend, Lori, will lead their own Bible Study in a freshman dorm!

This is what we call spiritual multiplication! We help students grow in their relationship with God so they can turn around and pour into others. This is exactly what Jesus did! He had 12 disciples, but three (Peter, James, and John) who He really spent lots of time with. After He went to the cross, these three men went out and changed the world…one disciple at a time! Today there are millions of people who love and follow Jesus because of the work of God through spiritual multiplication. Who knows, maybe YOU are the spiritual great-great-great-grandchild of Peter!