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Volume I, Issue 11 March/April 2011

Prayer Requests: Heather and Maria: seeking non-believers

who attended our Spring Break trip

Summer Opportunities: Many students

will be using their break to go on summer

projects to learn about life and evangel-

ism outside their Christian bubble.

Next Year: our team is constantly chang-

ing, we will be losing a few of our staffmembers but hopefully gaining student

leaders and possibly more staff for next

year. Pray for a healthy and smooth tran-

sition

Spring Break in NYCSpring Break in NYCSpring Break in NYCSpring Break in NYCFirst impressions can go a long way.

Not just of individuals but also ofsituations and places. Our first impres-

sions of our service trip to New YorkCity were less than satisfactory. Forty

five students carrying a weeks worthof luggage wandering through the

streets aimlessly, trying to make it onto subways and busses left us annoyed

as Im sure it left the many New-Yorkers we encountered. Praise the

Lord it wasnt raining. Due to manythings that were outside of our control

make a difference for

Gods glory right wherewe are in Charlottes-

ville. We had challeng-ing discussions about

why its easy to serve

soup to a homeless manfrom behind a table butwhen faced with a beg-

gar on the subway weare speechless.

How can we simply givea dollar when we hold

the greatest treasure ofChrists love and for-

giveness? Their physicalneed is obvious but their

spiritual needs are not.We continue to grapple

with these realities and Ihope that you would

take a second to thinkabout this reality in your

own lives as well.Thank you for your part-

nership and prayers thatmake these trips possi-

ble. Pictures on next page.

we ended up arriving at our

destination two hours laterthan planned. Whatever

bonding and learning activ-ity we had planned for that

night was quickly tossed

for relaxing social time.Many of us leaders wereworried the morale of the

group on day one wouldnegatively effect the stu-

dents attitudes throughoutthe week but we were

pleasantly surprised. Wesplit into four groups of

eleven and managed toserve eight different or-

ganizations giving 645hours community service.

In the process of servingwe also challenged students

on the worldview and per-spectives of those less

privileged than they are.Our goal was not to log in

do-gooder hours but togrow in maturity as believ-

ers and learn how we can

Lifelines Ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ

Mindy Sue Colvin

(269) 908-06111027A St Clair Ave

Charlottesville, VA 22901http://give.ccci.org/give/0593522

mindysue87.blogspot.comwww.lifelinesuva.com

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Spring Break Pics counter clockwise from top:

sorting clothes to give to the homeless, playing

Jackpot at Union Square, serving at a soup

kitchen, painting a mural for a childrens wait-

ing room at social services, building shelves

for file storage, taking a break and playing in avacant filing cabinet

weekend of canoeing, camping

and climbing for our students we

find out that only three will be at-

tending. The purpose of the trip

was to build community, depth ofrelationships and grow as a group.

Considering less than half of the

group would be there we had to

make a decision about what to do.

In Lifelines we often do All-or-

Nothing programs, saying that

the group has to decide and either

everyone agrees or no one goes.

We decided that this trip was one

of those times. The purpose andgroup dynamic would change,

and not for the better, if only

three went and we wanted the en-

tire group to feel how their deci-

sions effect the other members.

Instead of throwing it all out we

as a staff team went on our first

team bonding trip. It gave us the

chance to practice what wepreach and deepen our relation-

ships and build community. It was

An incredible weekend. At one

point it started to rain

and all six of us

crammed into a three-

man tent for three hours.

We talked about our in-

terpersonal needs, con-

flicts with our team andhow to serve and love

one another better in the

future. It is seldom that

our focus is taken off our

student ministry and

placed on our own lives

and yet its so important

to be emotionally healthy

ourselves in order to

have and run a healthyministry.

When working with

students one must al-

ways stay flexible. Al-

ways. After many

weeks of planning a

Staff Canoe Trip

Right as Jon and I hit the rapidsOur staff team, minus John