Discernment Update
Ventura County, California
I apologize for the blog silence over the past couple of months! Despite the silence, there have been tons of exciting things going on!
One of the biggest and most exciting pieces of news is that God has led Bekah and I to decide where we’ll be moving and what we’ll be doing. Bekah and I will be co-leading InterVarsity’s planting effort on college campuses in Ventura County.
Ventura County is North of LA and South of Santa Barbara. There are 3 community colleges and 1 four-year university in the county that serve over 41,000 students. With the exception of a small Christian group at the smallest campus, there is currently no ongoing witness to the Gospel on any of these campuses. This is a huge and humbling opportunity to get to play a role in bringing a contextualized witness to the Gospel to a place where there is virtually no ministry happening.
Bekah and I are overwhelmed with enthusiasm at the prospect of getting to serve together in ministry as a married couple in a new place, but I’m also certainly beginning to grieve the losses associated with leaving San Diego – the place I’ve called home for the past 8 1/2 years.
Please pray: for us as we prepare our current campuses for transition as well as prepare for our own personal transition; that God would provide us with housing, a church, and community in Ventura; that God would provide abundantly for our ministry budgets; and that he would give us wisdom and guidance as we seek to develop a planting strategy for Ventura.
If you’d like to pray specifically for the campuses in Ventura County, here they are:
Ventura College
California State University, Channel Islands
Oxnard College
Moorpark College
