A letter to my cousin

My cousin sent me a message asking about the first Gathering this quarter and figured it would be a good update on here too, so this is just cut and pasted from my response to her. Sorry for my laziness but it works :)

The first Gathering went pretty well. It was a bit smaller since it was the first week back that's not to uncommon with everyone adjusting to their new schedules. We did have two new people, one is a guy, who in his own words was walking away from God until a week ago and God presented Himself in a way that can't be ignored. He had some contact with Mark (our campus director) already and he is really excited to have us as a community since Satan is definitely attacking this choice. This one girl had asked me if we could hang out sometime so we have been trying to find a time which has been hard but I'm excited that she is really open to it. It was a bit disjointed, Mark's strong suit is big picture and not so much details which has been difficult for me since I am totally into details and recently in a job where that was a huge part of it. So today we were meeting with Mark and Barb (his wife) and they asked me to pray about taking over administrative stuff for the Navs. It was something I had been thinking about but was unsure how to bring up so I am still praying about it but I'm already getting excited. Especially last semester it was hard because I felt like I didn't have anything to bring to the table and felt non purposeful. Right now we are in the midst of training and I really didn't feel like any of my talents were being used. I know this semester has a lot of traveling still but I am excited to start doing some things that I can feel like I am contributing more. It will make the things I cannot contribute to yet be easier to handle. So be praying that next week more students will be able to come, if it's God's will that their schedules work out. That we continue to get to know the the students. That the guy who just turned back to God that the people in his life help him to know God more even if it's not easy. Also as staff we are trying to figure out what we will be doing this summer. Mark is taking a group to New Zealand and due to a wedding if we were able to go at all it would be late. There are some other ministry possibilities both local and in other countries so we are not sure where God wants to take us for that. So prayers for our decisions and also students thinking about joining the New Zealand trip.