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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

"A Week in the Life of a 50-something Campus Missionary" | The Curran Events May 2015

The Curran Events May 2015

"A Week in the Life of a

50-something Campus Missionary…"

Note: This is a letter composed by Margee last May...

                                ...Daniel's laptop got stolen and we never sent it out. -D & M


Hello all!! (from Margee)

It has been a big year of transition for me!!  As many of you have figured out by now, I’m not serving over at UC Berkeley with Athletes in Action anymore, but up at UC Davis.  I commute an hour each way, 3 days-a-week and love Davis. I thought I would give you a little peek into one of my weeks

SUNDAY, May 17: 5pm: UC Davis Farewell Fiesta: I serve on a team of 16 CRU campus missionaries and Interns.  We celebrated the end of an amazing year at Lori & Jeremiah Kepners home and said goodbye to 5 of our Interns.    It was a great time of food, fellowship and reflecting on what the Lord did in and through us this year. We ate too much and laughed a lot!!  Love this team.

MONDAY, May 18: 9am Monday: I worked out with my maters swim team and prepped for teaching “The Master Plan of  Evangelism” (MPE). It’s a great little book about how Jesus discipled a few to reach many. On Mondays, I usually visit Daniel’s mom in Walnut Creek.

Katherine, Rebecca and Deborah




Katherine, Rebecca and Deborah have been such fun to meet with each week this year.  We have had a great time studying various passages of scripture and relating them to our lives. I always look forward to my discipleship times with them!!
TUESDAY, May 19:  After a 6:45am swim, I loaded my dad’s trusty old bike from the 1980’s on my bike rack, drove to Davis, parked, unloaded my bike and rode off to campus. I ran a stop sign right before campus and got issued a ticket by a policeman “hiding” behind a sign.  Oh dear, not a good start to the day. At 11am, I met with 3 other CRU women for our weekly “Greek Prayer Time” and prayed for sorority women to come to Christ.  Afterwards, I got a ride with Jenn Floth (one of my directors) to the Kepner’s house where Lori, Jenn and I (the 3 staff moms) meet twice a month to encourage one another to excel still more.  At 2pm,  I met with Cameron, a married new staff woman to talk about life and discuss “The MPE”.  Fun fact- Cameron led Hannah’s freshmen bible study when they were both students. I usually meet Tuesdays at 3 with a Discipleship Group of 3 sophomores. This week they invited me over for a home-cooked meal at an apartment. to celebrate. It was delicious and such a treat!!


WEDNESDAY, May 20:  I co-lead a Women’s Bible Study on Wednesday mornings at our church (for the last 6 years).  It has a great place to connect with women and study the word together. I also host a Mom’s in Prayer group at our house from11:15-12:30.  I have been praying with some of these moms for 17 years. We have seen the Lord do the exceedingly abundant in answering our prayers for our children.  This is one of my most important hours of my week because I need their camaraderie to pray for our young adult kids!!

THURSDAY, May 21: After my morning swim I once again loaded my bike onto my car.  I drove to the Martinez Amtrak Station and caught my 10:04 train. It’s a 45-minute, peaceful ride.  I hopped off and rode from the Davis Station to campus, …careful to STOP at every stop-sign this time!!

At 11am,  I had a Bible Study with Jessica and Jen. Jen graduated in March and Jessica is in her 4th of 5 years. We talked about the last 2 chapters in MPE. At noon, I met with aGroup of Sophomores, Allie, Sierra and Kimberly (below)   to “cover” for Taiko, a wonderful staff woman who is off campus raising support full time.  It has been so MUCH fun!! 

Sophomore Bible Study, Allie, Sierra and Kimberly



At 1pm, I usually try to have lunch with international students. This week, Kay who has been involved with CRU in Hong Kong joined me and Anna Kehl.  Often we lunch with women from Turkey, Japan and Saudi Arabia.  Each week is different!

lunch with international students



At 2pm, I met with “The Cookie Club” : Anna Kehl, Anna Olsen and Taylor. These 3 CRU interns  “named” our group back in October: each week I make cookies for all of the bible studies I lead- and  I often share the recipes!!  The cookies are a big hit!  What fun we 4 have had this year! I taught them how to study the scriptures by “color-coding” the text and we have been enjoying our discussions about MPE immensely this quarter! 

“The Cookie Club”



One of my favorite groups this year has been our FridayMorning Breakfast Club, pictured above: Taiko, Jordan, Lisa, Hannah, & Annika. Taiko is on staff with CRU and is one of Hannah’s current roommates.  Jordan, Lisa, Hannah & Annika all lived together for 3 years as undergrads!!  I usually cook breakfast and then we head to the word for perspective! This quarter we have loved discussing MPE!!  It is so much fun to have my daughter in a bible study!!
Friday Morning Breakfast Club



Thank you so much for praying and giving so this 50+ year old campus missionary can have the privilege of having such an impact on college women,

Love, Margee

----Our mission Donation Portal: https://give.cru.org/0259597 ----

PS  (Coming in our next Curran e-Vents, ...a report on our summer mission in Santa Monica!) Old Prayer Request: Pray for us- on June 2nd, we arrive to serve for 5 weeks with the Santa Monica Summer Mission’s Leadership Team.  Pray for Jesus to refresh us and to give us energy to serve our 25- member staff team and 80 college missionaries. Pray for the Gospel of Jesus Christ to go forth powerfully in Santa Monica!!
Daniel & Margee Curran, ...serving as campus missionaries with Cru in the Pacific Southwest Region

Daniel Curran

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Thursday, May 9, 2013

“Oh Taste and see that the Lord is good” | May 2013 Curran Events (lots of pictures)


The Curran Events
May 2013 | Spring Snapshots
“Oh Taste and see that the Lord is good”
-Psalm 34:8

Greetings!!
Our hearts are full as we reflect on all we have seen the Lord do in the past few months.  We thought we would create a newsletter with photos to give you a snapshot of what God has been doing in the 3 ministries we are working with: CRU Grad Networks, New Staff and Intern Development, and Athletes in Action-Berkeley









CRU Grad Networks News:
Tom: PhD in Environmental Health Science. Tomas is doing pioneering work on developing clean water for developing nations.
Jake (center) is getting his Masters at the School of Information and integrating his faith and his academics. He's started a G3 in his department.
Carrie is getting her masters in Social Welfare, works at Children's Hospital Oakland & CRU leading a small group of upper-class women.
Leslie: is earning her Doctor of Optometry. Leslie often has a full-car heading to Reality Church in SF and saw one of her colleagues baptized!!



New Staff and Intern Development
Daniel loves his monthly “Bay Area Training Days” that are held on the UCB, UCD and SFSU campuses.  It is a very enriching time for the New Staff and Interns to gather with peers and talk about life as new missionary on the field.  They gain practical training in field ministry and how to pray and reach out to new to student populations.
(Left: Daniel with 3 New Cru Staff at San Francisco State)





Athletes in Action at UC Berkeley
Above: AIA student athletes at a Sunday Volleyball game and BBQ.     


Left: Margee’s swimmers and water polo bible study girls


This has been a GREAT year with Athletes in Action-Berkeley. There are more than 50 students in small groups. Over 10 athletes have come to know Christ personally for the first time, or come back to Him.  God inspired us to plan and host 3 amazing retreats this year. 17 went on a Spring break mission trip to the Dominican Republic and their lives were completely transformed!!  6 swimmer gals went and even taught kids how to swim in a jungle river!!  Deep friendships have been forming all year and many of the athletes are banding together to form living communities next year!!


Summer Plans | Colorado State University




In June we will be heading to Ft. Collins Colorado for 6 weeks.  For the first 4 weeks, Margee will be finishing up her Institute of Biblical Studies certificate.  She will be taking 2 classes: Biblical Interpretation and Biblical Communication. Daniel will be a TA for the Bible Study Methods course (his 7th summer serving in this capacity).  Hope will be living with us in Ft. Collins because she’s been chosen to be a summer intern with CRU’s High School Ministry.  Hope and her team of 8 interns will be running programs and serving 800+ CRU missionary kids (like her) who will be in Ft. Collins during the course of the 6 weeks.


This summer marks our 30th Anniversary
...of serving on staff with CRU!!

What a privilege it has been to serve with CRU for THIRTY years!!   We have worked on several campuses: Ohio State, U of Oregon, Idaho State, University of Washington and UC Berkeley.  It is an honor to bring the good news of Jesus to college students, to disciple them to follow Jesus for a lifetime and see so many go to the world.

30 years of GOD’S faithfulness!! During our 30 years on staff , we have received more than 750 paychecks.  99% of those have been FULL paychecks- PRAISE THE LORD!!  Thank you VERY MUCH for your faithful prayers and giving on our behalf!!  We are speechless!!!

The 30/30 Project --- Over the summer we'll also be working on a special project the Lord has put on our hearts to help us meaningfully reconnect with some of our former students.   We're really excited to work on this together!!  

Check out our updated mission donation portal: https://give.cru.org/0259597

We hope these snapshots have given you a picture of what God has been doing in our midst.  It's been a great year.  Psam 63 rings true right now with us, ..."the Lord is good!"

Thank you for your friendship and commitment to us as His campus missionaries!!

Jesus’ Shalom,    Daniel & Margee Curran


(above) taken in April during our trip to Irvine, CA
to watch our a Curran "athlete in action" (Hannah)
during her Big West Water Polo Championships


Yosemite on an adventure with 2 graduating Cal athletes
Daniel wearing a special dad t-shirt given to him by 
our other Curran "athlete in action" (Hope)
who swam her first year at UC Santa Barbara 



“Oh Taste and see that the Lord is good”
-Psalm 34:8