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Exciting News! – August 2011 Update

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I’m Engaged!!

I proposed to Cameron on August 10 and she said yes!  It was a day to remember.  For the full story, click here.

After the proposal

New Campus Assignment

I’m excited to announce that I will be on campus full-time at UC Davis starting in September.  Cameron is there, which is ideal since we’ll be married soon. 🙂  The movement is also in need of a male staff member who can raise up freshman guys and disciple students in the movement.  I just moved in to an extra room that belongs to a great family in Davis on August 1.  I’m currently getting settled, and since Davis is known as one of America’s best biking towns, am in the market for a bike!

To get an idea of what the Cru movement is like at Davis, vist the Davis Cru website.

The bike circle at UC Davis

Campus Crusade Name Change

After years of praying, Campus Crusade felt it was appropriate to start using a new name that would reduce one hindrance to the Gospel (the word “Crusade) and better represent the organization’s scope of ministry (not just our work on the “campus”).  The name chosen was “Cru”, a name that many of our ministries on campus have been going by for about a decade without the unneeded connotations that come with the old name.  We have a new name, but will continue with the same message that we have been proclaiming for 60 years.  I am behind this name change and feel that God will use it to help us proclaim Christ in even greater ways than before.  To read an article that I wrote called “Why the Name Change”, click here.

Our new logo

Prayer Requests

  • My new staff team and I start planning for the fall quarter on September 5.  Pray for good preparation for a busy quarter, that our team would bond well, and dependence on the Lord.
  • Before I can start working with the staff team on September 5, I need to work on expanding my team of financial ministry partners.  Pray that God would bless this time of fundraising.
  • Pray for Cameron and me in the midst of engagement.  Pray for good communication, that we would serve and love each other, and good preparation for our wedding and married life.

I'm Engaged!

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After I proposed

As of Wednesday August 10, I’m engaged to a beautiful woman named Cameron Croasdale!  I’m so excited to marry this girl!  We’ve been dating for nearly a year.  I introduced her to you in a previous update,  but here’s the story of how I proposed:

A few months ago, I started plotting how I could make a proposal special to Cameron.  There are many things that she loves.  Just a few of them are words of affirmation, flowers, and gardens.  Way back when Cameron and I were in South Africa together, I began journaling about her.  This has continued all the way until now.  I jotted down things that I noticed about her, such as her beauty, sweetness, love for the Lord, love for others, and love for kids, among other things.  The journal entries kept occurring as we spent time together.  I journaled about asking her out.  I journaled about spending time at Christmas with her family.  I journaled about our day at Disneyland together.  As I prayed about what to do for proposing, I realized that I should probably include some of these journal entries since Cameron is such a words of affirmation person.  A few weeks ago, I began to go through my journal and gather the relevant entries.  I also began to gather pictures from our times together.  Having never done a scrapbook before, I went to the local craft store and cluelessly wandered through the aisles.  I picked out a scrapbook album, colorful cardstock paper, scissors, and glue.  For the next week, I spent hours and hours carefully putting together a scrapbook mixed with journal entries and photos.

Where would I propose though?  Cameron literally stops to smell the roses all of the time.  As I prayed, I thought a garden would be perfect.  I googled “gardens”.  There was the Berkeley botanical garden, but it looked like it was just okay.  Not good enough for a proposal.  I began looking in Southern California, and on the suggestion of a few women, found the Huntington Library in San Marino.  It has 207 acres of beautiful gardens.  Perfect.

The day before I proposed, I told Cameron that we would be going somewhere as a surprise the next day.  The morning of, Cameron and I went to breakfast.  We then went to the Huntington Library, looked at an art exhibit, and then started exploring the gardens.  Cameron found a rose garden and spent a long time smelling the roses. 🙂  She was happy.  We then moved on, with me looking for the perfect place to propose the whole time, since I had never been there and only seen pictures online.  After walking around for about a half an hour, I found it.  It was a bench under a canopy of trees at the end of a gigantic lawn of picture perfect grass.  We sat down and talked for a little bit.

The view from the bench where I proposed

I then asked if I could show Cameron something.  I pulled out the scrapbook and started reading.  I read every word slowly and aloud to her.  She loved it.  It took about 20 minutes.  By the end, she was crying.  Afterward, I said a few things.  By the end of that, I was crying.  I pulled out the ring, got down on one knee, and said, “Will you marry me?”

She said, “Yes”, and kissed me.  I put the ring on her finger, and we were officially engaged.

Cameron and I are so excited to marry each other.  She is the woman of my dreams.  I can’t imagine marrying anyone else.  I’ve told God multiple times that she is such a gift from him, and that he knows what I want and need even more than I do.  My prayer is that she’ll always know that she is loved and cherished, through good times and hard times.

We’ve just begun the process of planning our wedding.  Please pray for us as we begin analyze how much money we have to work with, search out venues, and plan all of the details that we probably only know the half of.  It will be a long process, but I’m excited to plan together with her.  The thing I’m most excited about, however, is that I get to spend my life with this amazing woman.  I love the thought of living life with her.