Jayson & Carrie Whelpley

Attention friends in Northwestern PA!

Mark your calendars for December 8th from 6-9 PM. We’re setting aside some time to visit with those of you who have partnered with us in prayer and financially. We will be at the Startbucks outside of the Mill Creek Mall.

For directions there visit Google. (There is also a Starbucks inside the mall, we will not be there. We will be getting our caffeine jolt at the one just inside the mall entrance where Rt 99 comes in from Edinboro/McKean.)

We’re looking forward to catching up on your lives; since you get to read about us every month and on here we feel like we miss out on our end. Hope to see you there!

We’re back, refreshed from the RSC and full from the feast yesterday.

This Sunday we’re going to be speaking at a church in Saegertown, PA. I’m actually preaching a sermon as well. This is a first for me, pray that God would give me focus and that I’d be able to communicate what it is that He’d have me share.

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Low level stress – and lots of it. Driving 3 hours each day on campus; helping students to manage their personal, social and spiritual lives and share their fatith; planning sermons and talks; helping students make good decisions about their futures – spring, next summer and beyond… the list goes on, and sometimes that stress piles up along with questions. These questions swirl through our mind like, thoughts like

How do I get this student to understand that doing something ‘Christian’ every night of the week is not necissarily good,

Why is it that I am driving to campus every day to spend an hour meeting with one student to let them know what’s going on in the summer for missions projects?

It’s at times like this that CCC excells at taking care of thier staff. This Sunday we’ll head to Valley Forge, PA for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Staff Conference. Time spent with other staff, learning what they’re doint that is successful on thier campuses and what they’re doing to make their time and their students more effective.

From Sunday the 20th through Wednesday the 23rd we’ll be surrounded by those that know better (not ‘know better’) how to do this thing we call campus ministry. Please lift us up to our Master that we would be able to come away from this and the Thanksgiving holiday with Carrie’s family refreshed, encouraged, emboldened and better equipped for the end of the semester and the beginning of the next.

Today was a long one, but energizing. For some reason, I am fueled by conversations with people who think differently than I do, and tonight I got to have a few of those in between some meetings with our student leaders. Besides getting to meet a guy from Brazil who’s given name is Axel (no kidding), I got to hang out for about an hour with Lisa who I met briefly few weeks ago sort of by accident. She’s an amazing, intelligent, thoughtful freshman who has some great questions about faith in Christ and where it overlaps with science and real life, and the fears and frustrations that sometimes accompany being friends with people who claim to follow Him. Pray that she is able to find time and the drive to continue seeking truth, and that God will reveal Himself to her plainly as she makes steps in understanding faith.