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Back to School Time

August 19, 2007 by Keith Seabourn Leave a Comment

Over the next few weeks, college students will be traveling to their college of choice. You may know some students who are going for their first time. If you know a student who might be interested in connecting with Campus Crusade for Christ’s ministry on their campus, check for information at using our ministry locator. Many of our campus groups have their own website and you can find information in the ministry locator. You can also find a contact person.

Click here for the ministry locator.

Why not pause right now and pray for the students you know who will be returning to college.

Some things to pray:

  • Pray that Christian students would find a place to connect spiritually through one of the excellent Christian groups on campus.
  • Pray that students who have not yet found Christ will have experiences that awaken and quicken their spiritual interest. Pray that they will find someone who truly follows Jesus who can share the gospel with them.
  • Pray for those fulltime vocation Christian workers with Campus Crusade for Christ, with Navigators, with InterVarsity, and with denominational ministries who will invest their lives these next months in seeking the lost and discipling the followers.
  • Pray for Christian professors who are sharing their lives with students every day in the classroom and in informal opportunities, sometimes in the midst of hostile environments where their economic futures may be adversely affected because of their ministry activities.

I recall how significant our colleges years were in spiritual formation in our lives. College was the time for both Kay and myself where we learned how to walk daily in the power of the Holy Spirit, where we learned how to and began the practice of taking the initiative in sharing Christ with others, where we made commitments to follow Christ for the rest of our lives and to participate in helping fulfill the Great Commission.

Filed Under: Ministry, Prayer Requests

Campus Mission 2007 is over

August 4, 2007 by Keith Seabourn Leave a Comment

Campus Mission 2007 (the event) is over. Campus Mission 2007 (the mission) is beginning. 16,000 students from 129 countries were invited to sign a pledge:

The CM 2007 Pledge

Because…

…the lost can not perceive the majesty of the Lord, and God deserves the glory, honor and praise of all.

…God desires the ends of the earth turn to Him and be saved

…Christ died for all; therefore all deserve the opportunity to hear the Gospel.

…the Lord deserves the rewards of Christ’s suffering, which are the redeemed from every nation.

…the deepest needs of the human race can only be met by Jesus Christ.

…Jesus said “the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few”.

…Jesus made me a light to the nations, so that His salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.

Because of these…

… I choose to invest my time, energy, resources, and abilities in light of eternity, to follow Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit, in unity with the Body of Christ.
In full surrender to Him, I will go to the unevangelized university students of the world, and beyond, “that the earth may be filled with the glory of God as the waters cover the sea!”

My name
July 5, 2007, CM 2007, Busan, Korea

See some of the excitement:

Filed Under: Ministry

Renew, Revitalize, Reconnect (and fishing!)

July 16, 2007 by Keith Seabourn 2 Comments

Some people are beach people. For them, Florida must seem like heaven with 1,350 miles of coastline. But Kay and I are mountain people. I prefer my water in a mountain stream full of trout.

Kay and I are in Colorado. We’ve been here a while, and have a while longer to enjoy mountains. Every two years, all 5,000 U.S. staff of Campus Crusade for Christ gather on the campus of Colorado State University. Kay and I are sharing an apartment with our “boss” and friends Roger and Maggie Bruehl.

Our focus is a time to Renew, Revitalize, and Reconnect.

Renew our calling to fulltime ministry

Revitalize our spiritual lives with a change of pace

Reconnect to the big picture of the vision and direction of Campus Crusade for Christ as well as reconnect with our staff friends from around the U.S. and often from around the world.

RECREATING with nature (recreation)

Kay and I have done our share of fishing. It’s been great. We’ve fished the Poudre river. We’ve fished Red Feather Lakes. We’ve eaten one meal of trout. Very good!

This morning, we fished at the YMCA of the Rockies where we are for a few days. Kay caught one. I got skunked!

Keith fishing Kay with a nice rainbow

Filed Under: Personal

Acts: The Missionary Roadmap

July 16, 2007 by Keith Seabourn 5 Comments

One of the things I’ve done is to take a seminary-level study of the book of Acts taught by Trinity Evangelical Divinity School professor John Nyquist. This “bible study” came complete with

  • 382 pages of textbook reading
  • 28 chapters of Acts reading
  • a summary book chart of Acts giving titles to each chapter and paragraph
  • a 10 page paper

All this in 5 days of class( plus one day of writing the paper)! It was great. It was rewarding. It was refreshing. It was revitalizing.

The Holy Spirit reminded me of four major themes in the lives of the disciples and the early church:

  • Engaged in evangelism
  • Empowered by the Holy Spirit
  • Prayerfully dependent on Christ
  • Unafraid of persecution and sacrificial suffering

I wrote a paper to help me process my thoughts. You are welcome to read it if you want. It is in Adobe Acrobat format, so if you do not have Acrobat Reader, you can click here. It is free!

My paper is Acts-The Missionary Roadmap.

In case you can’t wait to get to the conclusion, I wrote:

What does this mean?

There seems to be a tendency to reduce the missionary enterprise to training, to strategies, to tactics, to methodologies. Acts is a reminder that at the core of the missionary enterprise is the commissioning of God to go, the empowering of the Holy Spirit for supernatural effectiveness, the communing of prayer for wisdom and direction in daily decisions, and the role of suffering in the “presentation to the nations of the sufferings of his cross in the sufferings of his people” (Piper).

Tell me what you think?

Filed Under: Personal, Thoughts

My birthday

July 8, 2007 by Keith Seabourn 5 Comments

Last Friday was my birthday. I’ve celebrated all weekend.

Keith & Kay at Dowdy lakeOn Friday, Kay and I went fishing with friend Peter Culver. We didn’t catch anything, but the scenery was great. If you’re fishing but not catching anything, at least it was at 8,000 feet in the Colorado Rockies with pine trees all around! There are worse places to not catch anything!

Keith in sombreroWhen we returned, we went to eat Mexican food. My “friend” Peter promptly announced to the waiter that it was my birthday. Nothing happened, so I thought I was safe. Then at the end of the meal, I got to wear a sombrero while they sang in Spanish to me. At least we got free sopapillas out of the deal!

On Saturday evening, Kay took me for a steak and a movie. We saw Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (the new one). It was OK, but it was over 2 1/2 hours, so it seemed long.

After church, we came home and cooked our trout. That was great!

Tonight (Sunday evening), we had about 12 friends over for coffee, cake and ice cream. It was Blue Bunny ice cream, which is OK. We couldn’t find Blue Bell ice cream here!

I’ve decided that 56 is starting out really good.

Filed Under: Personal

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