Students, Emergency Room Visit & On Campus
The last 10 days have been busy.  As you can see in the first pic all 110 students and staff arrived for project.  We set up a meeting room in the unused retail space of the apartments we live.  This night I walked through some training with every on how to share with someone about walking in the spirit. 

Just about 10 days ago our youngest son, Josh, feel at a bowling ally on UIC's campus, hit his forehead on a cement curb and the blood flowed.  We found ourselves at Rush Emergency room.  We are thankful that all it took was stitches, would have been much worse apart from his hard head.  Below is a pic of Josh with his over sized hospital gown just before they cleaned and stitched it up.  Josh was a champ through the whole process.

We have been on campus meeting students and sharing our faith over the last few weeks.  Mostly at University of Illinois Chicago, University of Chicago and Illinois Institute of Technology.  Believe it or not there are quite a few students on campus throughout the summer.  We have meet and talked with international students from around the world, quite a few from Middle East and East Asia.   I met a Jr. at UIC studding computer science.  He and his family moved here from Lithuania when he was 5.  We hung out for about an hour and I had a chance to talk about what it means to know God personally.  At one point I asked him why did Jesus have to die?  What was so significant about his death?  His answer, "He died to pay for our death penalty, separations from God because of our sins."  He was understanding the gospel and why we need to place our faith in Jesus.  Hoping to meet up again with him this next week.

Pray for us as we walk onto campuses throughout Chicago that God would give us favor with students and faculty.  Pray for the conversation we are having with international students.  Many of them coming from places that are hostel to Christ and the gospel.  The pic below is on University of Chicago's campus at the arches entering the main quad.  I am standing with Joel Benedetti, a friend and PHD student on campus.  I know Joel from his days as an undergrad at Miami.  Looking forward to spending more time with him this summer.