Behind-the-Scenes Missionary: Web Designer
For most of our ministry updates, we don’t get to share Matt's behind-the-scenes ministry work. He is the only web designer for the entire campus ministry. He works on multiple websites that bring resources to staff and students worldwide. We often joke that he might have more people come to Christ through his websites than Holly does through her writing and teaching. He just finished a 3-year project revamping and restructuring Cru’s seminary website for staff. All staff must take 12 seminary classes in their first few years on staff.
Matt’s now creating training videos for anyone who joins staff and wants to be a web designer. The list of websites he could work on is long, and we desperately need more people to join staff and help. The challenge is that people don’t want to raise support for web design. Would you please pray that more tech-savvy people would see that web design is part of the Great Commission and necessary to reach people worldwide online and join us? Please pray that Matt will not get discouraged with his workload or that he is doing it alone.
On a more personal note, Matt and Carter joined a group called Trail Life. Trail Life is like Boy Scouts for Christians. They went on their first camping trip with 12 other father-son pairings and enjoyed bonding, nature, and a bit of spear-making and throwing!
While the guys were away, Briella hosted a slumber party with her best friend, Shay. They started talking about heaven, and Shay asked if good people go to heaven. Briella invited Holly into the conversation, and she explained the gospel to Shay. Shay decided she wanted to put her faith in Jesus, and the girls prayed together. Please pray for her new faith that it will grow and be strong.
This was an unexpected weekend because Holly was going to fly out to VA to speak at a college retreat, but she could not fly there due to Hurricane Helene. After giving her written talks to the team, they scrambled to find people to take them, make them their own, and teach them over the weekend. The group of only 100 students saw 11 people indicate decisions for Christ! Though Holly would have loved to have been with these students, it’s incredible to see how God could use her talks there while also engaging with Briella and Shay about Jesus at home. God knew 12 people needed to receive Christ that weekend! Please pray for all of these changed lives to grow in Christ! Thank you for your partnership with us. You, too, are “behind the scenes” as prayer warriors. You are making an eternal impact!
