Just a week ago, my son stood next to the sunflowers we planted with LAUP students at the LAUP house this spring. They have grown so powerfully in such a short amount of time...much like LAUP over the past five years.
These past summers, I have had the pleasure of seeing LAUP grow into something that it's never been before. LAUP has always maintained a wonderful prophetic role of making disciples of InterVarsity students, and calling them to gain God's heart for the poor and the city. But in the past five years, we have seen the Greater LA Division of InterVarsity--the CAMPUSES--take an ownership of LAUP in an unprecedented way.
Every campus in the Greater LA area fights to get their students at a LAUP weekend dip each year. For the past three years, we have averaged bringing over 300 students through some kind of LAUP experience every year. Young staff are visioning for how to integrate love for the poor and ministry in the city into their plans for discipleship and campus growth.
It's been a wonderful season.
And I don't want it to end.
This afternoon, the two front-runners for the LAUP director job--a married couple that has been incredibly excited to explore the possibility of the role--called me with hesitation about how well it would fit them. I'm not sure what God is doing...but I feel led to PRAY and I want to call all of us that love the legacy of LAUP to PRAY.
1. Pray that God will speak clearly to whoever the next director is with a strong call.
2. Pray that God will pour out his Spirit on the students as LAUP begins this weekend.
3. Pray that we will be able to see the growth that's come these past five years not be the HIGH POINT, but the FOUNDATION of a whole new era of growth.
I'm praying right along with you!
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