Gilson Family News

Tom: Our Operational Advisory Services team has been working with ministries all around Campus Crusade for Christ, assessing their effectiveness, accountability, and stewardship, and helping them improve in those areas. Campus Crusade’s senior leaders asked us this year to report on any Campus Crusade-wide trends and themes we were uncovering. Tom led the team in writing that report, and it was delivered to leaders just before Thanksgiving. These findings and recommendations in this report affect the very core of Campus Crusade’s leadership. We believe this could be the most significant work we’ve done to date.

Tom also recently led an effort extending far beyond Campus Crusade, a strategy session for pastors, ministry leaders, and Christian scholars in conjunction with the National Conference on Christian Apologetics. The question was: Christianity has great answers even to the hardest questions and most difficult challenges, but are the answers really reaching the people who need them most? How can we do better at this? We’re praying that the work that flows out of this will reach every church in America.

Sara and Lisa: Sara is leading both Jonathan and Lisa in developing some significant new ministry and leadership skills. In particular, Lisa is working to book a Christian band in several venues in our area in March.

Jonathan is doing a twice-weekly computer internship with Campus Crusade for Christ’s Military Ministry this semester.

We need prayers for health—Tom and Jonathan both caught the flu, most likely swine flu since Tom was immunized against the seasonal flu. Both Lisa and Sara had emergency room visits in the past few weeks (they’re fine now). Even our animals have been to the doctor much more than usual; our cat is recovering from a serious attack by another cat on our property.