Campus Crusade at Georgia Tech

From the Campus Crusade national director, Mark Gauthier:

I wanted to update you on what the Lord is doing and to give you some specific prayer requests from our team at Virginia Tech. It has been encouraging and overwhelming to see your response, and the response of so many others who have received emails from you. As of this moment, over 400 replies have come to my email box. I am awed when I think about just how many voices will call on the Lord to work on Thursday. I have heard from all over the US and from our staff in New Zealand, Europe, East Asia, South America and Africa, to mention just a few. I’ve also heard from many I don’t even know, but who have communicated their desire to join with us in seeking the Lord. Dennis Rainey will be calling his one million radio listeners to pray also on Thursday. The body of Christ is an amazing thing!

As you go to prayer tomorrow, I want to simply remind you of the promises of God. He promises to move on our behalf when we seek Him in prayer. How and why He condescends to us remains a mystery but “this is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.” (1 John 5:14) God promises to glorify His name, the name above all names, as we walk in dependence and submission to Him. (2 Thes. 1:12) And finally, God will bring people to Himself as He is lifted up. He is drawing people even now as students are looking for comfort, as they join Christians who are praying on campuses, even as they search the internet for the answers that they seek. I am convinced that He will use this tragic event in the lives of people all over the world to bring many into the only relationship that offers real and lasting peace.

The staff at Virginia Tech have asked us to specifically pray for the following things:

1. The families of the students who were killed
2. The students who were injured and still in the hospital
3. Four students that were involved with Campus Crusade were killed. Please pray for their families and friends.
4. Survivors of the shootings who witnessed the horrors of that day. Pray for God¹s grace and comfort
5. Pray for wisdom for the CCC Staff and other campus ministers and pastors as they seek to counsel and love the hurting students

We will be joining students all over the country as we pray for Virginia Tech tonight at Real Life. Crusade has also created a Facebook group for the Call to Prayer. You can read more about it there, and on the Campus Crusade for Christ International website.

This week at Real Life, we’ll be finishing up our series on “Questions of God: Why Do They Matter?” when Trent McEntyre speaks on “The Qur’an and the Bible.” Also, we’ll be presenting our graduating seniors.