Caleb Tells All

Fun in February

January is gone and my birthday is almost here! In honor of my wife, here is the birthday cake she made me a few years ago...It has my favorite baseball team at the appropriate positions with appropriately numbered Teddy Graham players.
Let's celebrate me with an update of what GOD has done in the last month and what's on deck for February:

Praises From Us!

1) We are free to focus 100% on students the rest of the year! What a great example of God's grace to have all our funds in place to minister as effectively as possible. Thank you so much.
I can, in some small way, relate to Paul's affections towards the Philippians in Phil. Ch. 4. Thank you again.

2) The semester got off to a smooth and FAST start. We have our bible studies back in swing with 3-4 women Monday nights studying the "five assurances" we have in Christ. 3-4 guys on Sundays (or 6:30 a.m. tomorrow...we're building discipline this week!) studying the book of Philippians and a few other men at Wartburg. "The W" opened in the last month and I have been able to get quality time with men there in the last week especially working out and playing basketball.

3) One of my key guys at Wartburg has intentionally started reaching out to another student on his athletic team. He is a reliable man and has begun to teach others!! (2 Timothy 2:2)

Pray For Us!

1) A New Contact!
For development of a deeper relationship with a new student centered around basketball. I met with this one student, a few times last semester and talked about God and his relationship to him. Just today, he agreed to get together and shoot some hoops. Pray that this would be an intentional time that points us to the cross even more than the rim. Please also pray that I would present the gospel in a clear way that IS inviting and doesn't intimidate. We know that the gospel is a stumbling block to many so please pray that I wouldn't be one myself!

2) Men's and Women's Retreats, Feb. 15-17, 2008
We're expecting over 50 students to each for a Friday night - Sunday noon conference. The men will be staying in Cedar Falls with the women making an hour and a half trek south. Please regard these opportunities in prayer, that the men and women would meet God in a unique way with others of same mind and spirit. These retreats can be an eye opening experience to many as God honors his promise of being with us whenever 2 or 3 gather. Please entreat the Holy Spirit to meet us in a unique and decisive way. (Also, pray for quick healing of the bumps and bruises at the men's retreat.)

3) Joshua Team at UNI
"The Joshua Team" will be beginning in February at UNI. I will be a part of the staff leading this intentional discipleship training program. We're designing the curriculum to guide students toward a desire for the lost around them and for making their lives reproduce in others for the advancement of the gospel. These will primarily be 1st and 2nd year students attending so please pray that they will be committed and that the impact from the class will redirect their futures their remaining time on campus but even more so after they leave.

4) Prayer Workshop
Last week, I spoke at NavNight on prayer to 25 students. We looked at what it is, where we should do it and 5 ways to do it. This next week we will examine 4 reasons why we should pray. Please pray that they will have a new passion to meet with God privately and in small groups. Before you get too impressed with me here's where ALL of my material came from.

5) Jeremiah 6:16
While listening to a sermon today I believe God has given me a verse to come back to again and again as we discern what he has for us next. Would you ask for wisdom and guidance and opportunities as we stand at this "crossroads" between the end of our Navigators term and whatever is next?