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I wasn’t willing and I knew it. I kept my window seat as our new traveling companion sat down in the aisle seat next to my husband. She smiled warmly when we introduced ourselves and several times later during the three-hour flight. I had some things to do, but if I had been open to God’s leading, I would’ve offered her the window seat right away when she arrived so I could then sit next to her, chat, and find out her interest in spiritual things. I knew God was speaking to me in my heart and mind and yet I didn’t follow His leading.

A week later, we were returning home on a 757 and I was sitting by the window again. As usual, I preferred to do some things during the flight, but at the same time I didn’t want to repeat what happened on the previous flight. We watched as dozens of travelers walked past us and the third seat remained empty. More than twenty minutes later, Sananda arrived. We introduced ourselves, but I stayed in my seat, with my husband sitting between Sananda and myself. Sh...

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This video comes from our campus ministry in Canada, Campus for Christ. Our ministry operates under many different names all over the world, but this is a great glimpse into a part of what campus ministry looks like no matter where it is taking place.

The Impact of myCravings from The NEST on Vimeo.

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A few years ago I had the privilege of discipling Tim, a Canadian who was doing an exchange year in Hong Kong. Since then he has joined staff with Campus Crusade in Canada (which is called Power to Change there) and is now the assistant to the President there. A couple of months ago he let me know about the new evangelism campaign they were running in Canada, called My Cravings. Last month, at a conference in Singapore I got to talk to a couple of Canadian staff who have been part of the team developing the campaign.

They freely admit that the basic premise of the campaign is borrowed from the UK, who borrowed it from NZ ( “Are You Connected?”, where I was part of the team that put the campaign together.) But I am really impressed with what these guys have done, they have really brought things into the 21st century (“Are You Connected?” was in the 21st century – just, but the world has changed a lot in 9 years!) and have made some changes and developments that I think are really key in reaching this genera...

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Quick update on David’s trip to Canada:

Thank you so much for praying.  I had a very fruitful time.  Shannon and the kids managed well while I was gone but as always it’s much better to be back under one roof.

Here are a few photos from the conference at Columbia Bible College – in British Columbia, that is   Directly below is the Canadian “Ops Team” – about nine full time staff devoted to providing operational excellence for all of their campus missionaries.  In total, Campus for Christ Canada has about 160 staff on campus.

Joshua Wong is one of the trainers on the Ops Team.  He facilitated several excellent seminars on Social Media, Team Collaboration and Digital Basics.

We learned so much!!  The teams in Canada are trusting the Lord for huge things.  It was great to see them so eager to share ideas.  They’ve really created a good learning environment for their teams.

Want to hear some of their secrets? I made a short list of their good habits – very simple stuff which could help any team!  ...

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In this short video, you can get feel for how the Canadian campus staff do their operations training.

Russ Martin – director of campus operations in Canada – talks about some very simple habits his staff have developed:

  • For a team to function well, there must be smooth, well defined modes of communication.
  • Sharing ideas – even sharing failures – is a must for collaboration.
  • One team can learn so much from other teams.  Ideas should not be hidden.  Wheels should not be re-invented.
  • A threaded conversation (such as a message board or Facebook wall posts) is often most effective for sharing ideas.
  • Russ trains his staff to use a threaded conversation rather than email in most cases.
  • Canadian teams have common resource pools online where they can all share documents.
  • Using online documents such as Google Docs provides a great solution for saving meeting notes.
  • Rather than emailing a document as an attachment, the Canadians upload the document to a common resource pool and then share the link.  Subtle but po...

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