Huntington, Indiana

We arrived this morning at Huntington University in Huntington.
A very nice campus. And we are looking forward to get more involved in the missions emphasis week and campus life. Tonight we will go to the basketball game between Taylor and Huntington.

From Victory to Florida

So, yesterday the US hockey team lost on olympic ice to the Finnish team. Go Finland! So far, we're undefeated. Next we have to score against the Russians...

This morning Michael and I flew to Orlando, FL. At the moment we're at the Campus Crusade HQ's enjoying their hospitality. They have ponds (or swamps?) right in front of the buildings. Apparently they've had alligators in there. I was sure they were just trying to trick the Finn...but I guess they were serious.

We're here for a conference called Fusion. It's for 20 and 30 somethings, so a step up from college age. Tomorrow morning I'm looking forward to hearing what Dan Kimball has to say about the "emerging church". It is an interesting concept for sure and it's on everyone's lips here in America.

Prayer then and now

Did you know that the "Birthplace of American Foreign Missions" is in Williamstown, MA? In 1806 a group of college students had a prayer meeting out in the fields. Because of the rain they had to seek shelter by a haystack. They continued there prayer meeting and they dedicated their lives to missions.
Two hundred years later we see again that students are praying on their campus.

To learn more about how you can get involved in prayer for your campus and the world; check out this website.

Team Moose in Idaho Two Weeks Ago

Snowmobiling is fun!

We had a couple of days of on the mountains of Idaho on our Northwest tour.

Pacific Lutheran in January

So, we're a little late posting these pictures...
This is our team with Aaron (amazing dude) at Pacific Lutheran where the students did 48 hours of prayer. Every slot was filled! And this is a pic from the actual prayershack.

48 Hours of Prayer at the University of Oregon in January

Rome

Yesterday we visited Rome (in Georgia). We were part of the Missions Fair at Berry College. We met some of the students on this beautiful and very large campus. We had one specific meeting with a group of students that wants to start a 24-7 prayer on their campus. It was exciting to be at their first meeting and encourage them to take the next steps. We will come back to the campus in a couple of months to pray with them again. It is great to see that all over the country students are praying for their campus and for the world.

Toccoa Falls

We got back from the Northwest on Friday and Erik and I drove a couple hours north from Atlanta two days later. At the moment we're at Toccoa Falls College.

Last night there was an international fair. Missionaries from different organization presented clothing, food and stories from all over the world. Our OM team took pictures. We had a bunch of native costumes with us and we dressed people up wearing them and took pictures. We'll send these pictures later to the students as their "missionary prayer cards". You can imagine that this was quite the hit. Students being excited about getting to wear all these costumes and getting their pictures taken.

We also have these temporary tattoos and we were tattooing people. That's always fun!

This is a great school. Everyone's really friendly and it's easy to get to know people. Thanks for your prayers!

If You Lead Me Lord

At one of our meetings we sang this song.
We want to share the lyrics with you.
Invitacion Fountain (Words and music by Michael J. Pritzl)

All who are weak, All who are weary
Come to the rock, Come to the fountain
all who have sailed, On the rivers of heartache
Come to the sea, Come on be set free

If you lead me Lord I will follow
Where You lead me Lord I will go
Come and heal me Lord, I will follow
Where You lead me Lord, I will go
I will go, I will go

All who are weak, All who are weary
Come to the rock, Come to the fountain
All who have climbed, On the mountains of heartache
Reach to the stars, Come on give Your life
All who are weak, All who are weary
All who are tired, All who are thirsty
All who have failed, All who have broken
Come to the rock, Come to the fountain

Day 20 - NW Tour

4:00 AM Alarm; 4:15 Get up; 4:30 Shower; 5:00AM depart Moscow, Idaho; 11:00AM arrive Seattle Washington; 11:30 still looking for Car Rental Return; 12:00 Check in to Airport; 1:20PM depart Seattle; 9:00PM arrive Atlanta.
sleep...

Day 19 - NW Tour

We met up with the Intervarsity people at their apartment in Pullman Washington to discuss possible 24-7 prayer meetings at Washington State University in the future. We had a great time talking with them. Afterwards, we headed over the boarder to Moscow, ID and the University of Idaho. We had a great time with the Intervarsity Chapter there. Erik had a lot of fun talking to the students and knowing all the small towns in Idaho that they are from. Erik even met a fellow farm guy from Counsil. A small community far away from most places.

Day 16 - NW Tour

Today we went to Erik's church in Idaho. We shared in the Singles Class, and Erik snuck out to visit his home class and give them an update. Erik and Michael also shared briefly in the "gym class" about OM.

Day 15 - NW Tour

Finally a break. We all went off to see a great movie "End of the Spear". This is a great movie. Half of the proceeds go towards missions work among the indians. The other half goes towards making more movies like this one.

If you have never supported missions before now is your chance. You can go to a movie AND support missions at the same time. GO See the Movie. It's great.

The Prayershack

On Wednesday night about 20 people squeezed into a room the size of a receptionist's office. The walls were painted bright red and prayers were written and drawn across the walls. We were there with a bunch of students from the Pacific Lutheran University (PLU), who were just finishing a 48 hour prayerchain. Yes. They actually had someone praying in the shack for 48 hours straight. During the night too. They want to see their campus changed.

We've been on the road for two weeks now in the NW and God is raising this generation up to pray. It's amazing to hear students share their hearts for God and for the world in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.

Yesterday we took the daring 8 hour long drive from Tacoma, WA to Boise, ID. Amazing scenery with crossing the mountains and seeing snow. God's creation shouts the glory of God!

We're in Idaho for the last week of our trip. We've got some days off and some a couple more meetings. Thanks for keeping up with us...we appreciate your prayers. Nothing happens without prayer.

Day 14 - NW Tour

Erik met a professor at Northwest Nazarene University to talk about Internship opportunities with OM. They also talked about future visits of OM to NNU in chapel for example. Mark from NNU is origianally from Georgia living in Idaho, and Erik is originally from Idaho and living in Georgia. Ironic.

That night the team shared in the Intervarsity Meeting held on Boise State University. A great group of people. Afterwards we all headed off to Michelle's place for snacks.

Day 13 - NW Tour

Today we drove to Idaho. We stayed at the home of Erik's parents. :-)

Day 12 - NW Tour

Back to Seattle today to pick up Michael at Seattle Pacific University. Erik had a meeting with Career Services as well. From there the team went back to PLU for a closing prayer meeting in the shack.

Day 8

Today was very busy at Mission Fest NW. We met a lot of students who were very interested in missions.

One highlight for the day was listening to the keynote speaker -- Steve Saint -- son of martyered missionary Nate Saint who went to the Auca Indians in Peru in the 50's.

Also our team met up with 3 exdouloids with whom Erik and Heidi were shipmates. It was great to connect again. Also we found a shop that sold Pear Milk Tea. Erik hadn't had it since he was in Taiwan several years ago. (It's famous for having a huge straw and big jelly balls that you suck up and chew with the tea.)

Day 11 - NW Tour

We left PLU for George Fox College just south of Portland. Some really cool people from our office in Atlanta joined us: Ross, Gary, Helena, and Pat. We set up in an auditorium, and Gary spoke again. Our team shared about the history of the 1806 Haystack Prayer Movement, the Student Volunteer Movment, SVM2, and the new 24-7 movement, and how God has and is using students.