After serving one year on mission at my alma mater, Wichita State University, I served one year as a campus missionary at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, IN where I am now honored to serve as Team Director.

Buried deep within the heart of every man and woman is a pang, an ache, a cry, a desire for something greater. Most of us don’t recognize it on our own, but when someone invites us to admit to our ache and get in touch with it, we feel like our life is a movie to which we’ve arrived 45 minutes late.

I was invited to admit to such an ache during my undergraduate studies at Wichita State University, where I first encountered authentic masculine friendships. In the context of these relationships I realized that none of endeavors I had sought to receive “image” and meaning from actually told me the truth about who I was and what I was made for. In the context of one friendship in particular I was told the real story: I was created good and for the highest form of love, but my immediate availability to that love was stolen away out of deception and disobedience which came to explain why so much of my life was awry. I was captured. And that greatest form of love actually took flesh, in Christ Jesus, Who came to dwell among us, teach us, and love us; He loved us to the point of death on the cross, the God-Man offers Himself in act of perfect love, bridging the infinite gap between God and Man, restoring me and you to right relationship with the Father. We have been rescued. Now He asks, “Will you let go of everything and trust your life to me? Will you go and find those who are lost the way that you were lost? Will you cooperate with me in this great rescue mission?” He begs a two-fold response of each of us: personal and missionary.

During my undergrad I had a lot of opportunities to turn myself over to worldly success, for recognition and security. As my relationship with the Lord became more concrete, they lost their appeal and faded to greyscale; life with Jesus became the colorful palette within which I desired to live. He invited me to sell everything and follow Him on the most daring of adventures, the most crucial of missions.

The fight is on, will you come with us?

In Saint Matthew’s account of the Gospel, the Lord Jesus commissions us “go therefore and make disciples of all nations”. As a full-time missionary family, Christina and I have the great task and high privilege of responding to this high call with our entire lives. As a team director, I have the particular responsibility of investing in a team of missionaries and the students at USI in order to glorify our Lord and strengthen the Body of Christ.

Most people aren’t given the opportunity to give so radically of their daily lives, but as St. Mother Teresa of Kolkata beautifully put it, “some give by going, others go by giving”. Your active participation in this mission through spiritual and financial support is a concrete way to fulfill the Lord’s commission, it mobilizes each of our efforts on campus, and gives us the freedom to give ourselves to this mission full-time. If you would like to be part of the movement to set captive hearts free and invite the lost into authentic relationship with the God who knows each heart, we’d love to meet with you.

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