vision trip
Posted by Drew | Filed under General
Today at 5 pm the group of students from SMU and TCU will arrive in Florence. I got to meet them all yesterday in Bologna. They came to see both cities since they are only about an hour apart. The ministry in Bologna is new. There’s a couple there who are pioneering campus ministry, and praying for laborers in the form of a STINT team this fall. And that’s part of the reason this vision trip is here - we hope some of them will come back on STINT or summer project.
Several of you might wonder why these students aren’t from MS or other southeastern states. All the vision trips I’ve been a part of came from schools like MSU, Ole Miss, Central Florida.. Well, now that I’m in Florence, I’m connected to a different region of US campuses. Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas. It’s called the Red River region. And they are responsible for sending to Florence, and are beginning the partnership with Bologna as well. Ole Miss, by the way, has moved it’s partnership focus from Pisa to Salerno, and now to Rome.
All that introduction to explain that this week will be very busy. Kelly and I were in charge of the trip, making arrangements, planning details… So she and I will have a good bit of work to do.
I just realized most people won’t know who Kelly is. I’ll have to introduce my team at some point. Just not today.
But thanks for your prayers this week. Our goals are
(1) that we can effectively utilize 16 additional laborers for the ministry here in Florence,
(2) that the students here would have a positive experience with Campus Crusade and international missions, and
(3) that they would also gain a vision for what God is doing in Italy so that they could continue to participate in some way, and share that vision with others when they return home.
