[this just got real]

Hellooooooo!  :)  It's Jeanine here, writing to you from the awesome and hip-hopping... COSTA MESA!  haha.  Nope, not quite in San Francisco yet.   I'm currently at Summer Project Briefing with students from all over the country-- all eager to be sent out unto the nations this summer to tell the world about Christ, how He's changed their lives, and why His gospel of reconciliation is such good news.  So I'll be using this blog to keep you up to date on the whole Summer Project experience as it occurs.  Feel free to stalk me (aka find out how you can be praying for me and my team :0)

[Just in case you need a little reminder of what Summer Project is...]

Summer Projects are missions trips backed by Campus Crusade for Christ that send college students out into the world to share the gospel so that everyone will know someone who truly follows Jesus and have the opportunity to have a relationship with Him.  These projects offer great evangelism training and ministry experience.  They also allow you to experience authentic community with other believers-- students from all over the country who also desire to grow in their walk with the Lord, be challenged, share Jesus with the lost, and take ownership of their faith.  

I've been blessed by the opportunity to go on Summer Project three times as a student-- to Brazil, East Asia, and Hawai'i.  Each project challenged me so much in my walk with the Lord and rocked my world for the better.  In Brazil, I realized that the Lord could use even me, an angsty teenager who didn't have a clear grip on her own identity, for His glory.  In East Asia, I was struck by the realization that God created me to be exactly who I was for a purpose-- that as an Asian-American I could go places and reach people with this gospel that is neither a culturally Western nor Eastern belief, but a universal gift for God's creation to reach out an accept.  In Hawai'i, I learned that God could handle my brokenness and the mess of emotions that is my life; I learned that He neither shied away from it, nor did He want me to cover it up with a "good Christian"-facade.  I learned that I could come to Him, no matter what state I'm in.  

All to say, the Lord changed my life through Summer Projects.  And I am so excited to be going to Berkeley/San Francisco this summer, now staffing a project, pointing these 15 students-- now in the shoes I used to fill-- towards our Lord who is better and best.