exciting news!

So we found out last week that Vida Estudiantil in El Salvador is hosting its first ever Christmas Conference! Christmas Conference in the states is basically a huge week of speakers, seminars, worship, evangelism, and fellowship extravaganza for all the campuses in the entire Pacific Southwest region. It's a big deal in the "Crusade" world, and is an awesome way for students - especially first years- to get excited about their campus, ministry, summer projects, etc. And it's really a great time of simply growing in the Lord, recomitting your life, and getting to come before the Lord in a real way. I went to 2 in my 4 years involved at Cal Poly and loved them. It was such an amazing time of renewal and refreshment for my heart and soul - as cheesy as that sounds...

Anyways, we're so so excited to be in charge of this. We have a goal! Something to work toward! Right now, we have a date. That's about it.

We're staring from the ground up. It's really awesome because we're not recreating a conference from the states. Yes, that's what we know and we'll probably start with those basics, but this is a two day deal, and our minimum desired number of students is 12. twelve. TWELVE. that's tiny. Teensy. nothing. And we know God can do huge things with this. We're going to aim for something more like 50. Really, we just want to trust God in all of this. We need to allow the Lord to have full reign...that our ideas and creativity and agenda would be His own. I'm sure I'll have lots more updates - because this is probably one of the (ministry) things I've been the most excited about in a while since arriving in this blessed country!

ps - thanks for your prayers all! I love and miss everyone...let me know if you have prayer requests! <3