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Why a Support Team?
InterVarsity is a worldwide ministry reaching college students with the gospel of Jesus Christ.  As a full time campus missionary, I will be dedicating my time to leading and mentoring college students into the fullness of following Jesus.  This includes worship, teaching, evangelism, justice, discipleship, and spiritual disciplines of the Christian life.  But I can't do this full time without help, both financial and prayer.  To be a full time campus missionary requires raising 100% of your salary through ministry partners such as yourself.  Although some way see it as a burden, a support team is really not about money at all, but is it's own form of ministry of bringing people into the movement of God on campus.

Won't you please prayerfully consider joining my prayer and financial support team and partner with me in this important and fruitful ministry?  Joining my support team would mean joining in this ministry with me, through prayer,financial support, and advocacy.  If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of, either through prayer and financial support or just prayer, please sign up above with your email and name and you will be given a monthly update about what I'm up to on campus and how you can pray for my campus, my students, and me.  

Why give?
At first, I was very skeptical about raising funds to support myself.  But soon God showed me that being dependent on God means also being dependent on His people.  If I am going to really dedicate myself fully to seeing God move on the college campus, I have to do it full time and be willing to ask for help.  But what's exciting is that by asking God's people, I am asking God's hands and feet, the body of Christ himself.  So if I trust God to provide, I can trust His people just as much!

My hope is that whatever you would be able to give, whatever your circumstances, you would give in the spirit of the Macedonian church who, "In the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity."  Who "gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability. Entirely on their own, they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the Lord’s people."  Therefore, "since you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in the love we have kindled in you—see that you also excel in this grace of giving (2 Cor. 8:2-7)."  Raising support is actually a privilege for me to call people into sharing in my ministry and to "excel in the grace of giving."

What will my money go toward?
Your financial support will go toward everything that makes it possible for me to be a campus missionary.  This includes mundane things like rent, food, gas, student loan payments, and phone bills.  It will also pay for ministerial needs such as advertising supplies, music supplies for worship, or meals with students for disciplining and mentoring.  Most importantly, this money makes it possible to dedicate myself fully to serving the college campus.  Practically, this money goes directly to InterVarsity USA, who will then pay my salary with your money.  This allows your gift to be deductible and also allows me to be employed by InterVarsity, meaning I will be able to go on their insurance, plus other benefits.  At this point, some of your money will go to paying the InterVarsity ministry as a whole, but I will end up seeing your money again through discounted gas and tickets to conferences and other events.  In the spirit of giving, I will be giving 10% of my income to my local church and other local ministries.

 I want to help but cannot support financially at this time.  
Supporting my ministry is not just about money! I need people to cover me, my ministry, my campus, and students in prayer.  As we saw at Pentecost, prayer is the foundation of any movement of the Spirit of God and a strong prayer support team is even more important than finances.  Prayer and financial support are both indispensable to my ministry on college campuses.  This not about others giving me their money or prayer so I can do ministry, this really is about joining a team where we do ministry together. We are just different parts of the same body! That means that if all you can give is 10 minutes of prayer once a week, I would be overjoyed to have your support.  

Additionally, I need advocates, people who will direct me towards their friends and colleagues who need to hear about this opportunity and what God is doing on these college campuses.  If you would like to help support me through prayer or advocacy, please sign up for me email list and contact me indicating how you would like to help.

If you have any other questions, don't hesitate to contact me via the Contact Me page at the top.


 Thanks and God bless!

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