Santa Monica Summer Mission 2015

It’s awesome to see how summer missions are accelerating the gospel around the world! From the Santa Monica Summer Mission alone, we’ve seen tons of students trained and sent out to reach their world for Christ.

After being a part of the Santa Monica Summer Mission in 2013, Christina, Taylor, and Jen decided to give their first year out of college to serving as interns with Cru! Riley and Paul gave that same year to serve on a campus, reaching students for Christ, in the Middle East!

Last month, at our Kickoff Weekend, we trained 61 new missionaries with Cru for the next academic year. As I(Scott) greeted our new missionaries arriving for the weekend, I counted person after person who had been in Santa Monica with us, just in the last two years. Nick, Avonna, Scott, Rolan, Noel, Annie, Megan…20% of all those new missionaries had been with us on the Santa Monica Summer Mission!

Four of these students were with us in Santa Monica! Here they’re being trained as new missionaries with Cru for the next year.

This doesn’t even include the scores of students who have been sent out into their careers equipped and experienced at living on God’s mission wherever they are. Word has spread that the job you get in Santa Monica while on summer mission, is great training to be ‘on mission’ wherever you work in the future. Scott recently accepted another student to this summer’s Santa Monica Summer Mission. When asked why Conner wanted to be a part of the summer mission, one part of his response was, “I want to live missionally in my first job, to set a pattern for living missionally in future jobs.”

Becky and I are super excited to direct this year’s Santa Monica Summer Mission together! We love equipping students to bring the gospel to their sphere’s of influence. Will you join with us this summer in God’s work of training and sending more laborers into His harvest through the Santa Monica Summer Mission?

It takes a lot to move a family of four for over a month to do this work. For room and board in West LA, transportation, and summer mission supplies we will need $5,400 for our family. These expenses are above and beyond our normal financial needs.

This summer we also have the responsibility of attending our biennial US Staff Conference in Fort Collins, CO. This is an anticipated time of vision, training, equipping, and refreshment for us as Cru missionaries. But to drive there, room and board, kids camp activities, and tuition for those two weeks, our family will need another $5,200 beyond our normal financial needs.

Would you prayerfully consider giving a financial gift to enable us to direct this year’s Santa Monica Summer Mission, and attend our US Staff Conference? We are so grateful for how much you sacrifice for God’s Kingdom already! Whatever you give we will be incredibly grateful for!

To give by check, please make it out to “Cru” and return it in the envelope provided. To give online, simply go to give.cru.org/0494086 to “Give a Gift”. Please send your gift by June 1st, as we will leave soon after for Santa Monica, and have less access to our mail.

Thanks again! We are SO grateful to partner with you in God’s mission to college students!

In Christ,