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
