Coworkers of Christ

"Therefore, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who causes the growth." ~1 Cor 3:7


Hello from the craziness of Fall Outreach season! Fall Outreach is that one time a year where missionaries lose days of sleep, meet millions of faces, hand out thousands of freezie pops, and call hundreds of people to invite them into a Bible Study. Okay, maybe the numbers are a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much! We are beginning the second week of classes for students here at UW-La Crosse and our team of missionaries are busy tending to the people that God has given us through our outreach efforts. Throughout move-in weekend (Labor Day) and the first week of classes until now, we've had one mission: meet as many people as possible. God has definitely blessed us and entrusted us with many souls (almost 130 people who have signed up or expressed interest in faith groups in just a week). We are now busy at work following up with these students to begin building intentional relationships with each of them and getting them organized into a weekly Men's or Women's Faith Group. 

God has blessed our work in His mission in so many ways these past two weeks, from an amazingly supportive chaplain, a welcoming parish community, and eager and excited students, to a deeper and deeper bond forming throughout our team of missionaries as we break ground on our mission here. I am utterly amazed at how God continues to send us His assurance of the work we're doing here. Pretty much every daily Mass reading this past week connected in some way with the efforts we were taking on campus. The verse at the top of this post particularly resonated with our team earlier this week as we realized that God has asked us to plant and water the seeds He has given us, but it is only Him that causes the growth. This is His ministry, and we are blessed to be called His coworkers. Now it's time for us to continue cultivating these seeds and tend after the ones that sprout.

Please continue to pray for Theresa, Matt, Cullen, and I as we seek to connect with all 130+ of these students in the next couple of weeks, and pray for the students hearts' to be open to what God wants to do in their lives! I am so honored to be a coworker with all of you in this mission as well-- God bless you!

Cullen and Theresa- Mean Green Clipboard Machines!

A rousing game of Human Foosball at an outreach event