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Back:  Kyle Wallce, Kyle Lee, Brett Barnes, Ellie Barnes

Front: Tiffany Lee, Maggie Barnes, Melissa Daily, Casey Hyten

Tiffany and I returned from Orlando Sunday night to close out our summer project for the 115 students involved.  The project definitely met its goal as those attending  grew tremendously in a passion for Gods name and renown! 

After the students left on the 29^th we began a staff fellowship time until the 3^rd .  This was an amazing time for us.  It was great to be around the entire Indianapolis team as well as having a special speaker, Mike Hearon.  Mike was one of the first students led to Christ by Curtis Tanner, who founded Campus Outreach in the 1978.  Because he is currently the oldest staff working with CO, he had much wisdom and insight about ministry to pass on to us.  He gave four talks to the staff based around these four points…

1.      Faith, the currency of the Kingdom

2.    Sacrifice, the culture of the Kingdom

3.    Convictions, the compass of the Kingdom

4.    Perspective, the catalyst of the Kingdom

These talks empowered and refreshed us greatly as we move towards the start of the semester (August 16^th- Freshman Move in). 

Vision and excitement was imparted to Tiffany and I as Mike told about his first year on staff at Montevallo.  That year many football players come to Christ and Mike began to disciple six of those men.  From the best of their knowledge since 1983, out of those six men, over 20,000 people have come to Christ, 5,000 have attended summer projects, and over 30,000,000 dollars have been given to missions!  Tiffany and I are praying for this to happen at ISU through us!  Please pray with us that the word would produce these results to impact the world…

“But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.” Mk 4:20

“With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it?  It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes largest than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.” Mark 4:30-32

Lastly we have a new addition to our ISU staff team.  Kyle Wallace just finished raising support and he was placed at Indiana State to target athletes! It’s exciting to have such a big team to labor with! 

For His Glory!

-Kyle and Tiffany