Hello from Colorado! i'm currently sitting at an elevation of 9000 feet in Horn Creek Colorado.

    

    For those of you that i wasnt able to see, i drove back from Louisiana at the beginning of May and stayed in Rochester for about two weeks before leaving for here. It was an extremely brief stay but it was good to be back.

    Our work in Louisiana has finished, we closed up shop, but many of my teammates (in fact, most, are going to continue living and working in New Orleans to further the gospel there. That place is in such great need of the love of God and i'm excited they are staying there! As for me, i'm not sure where the next few months will take me. i'm hoping to spend this month and a half in Colorado "finding myself" a little bit and seeing where God would have me and finding out exactly what gifts and talents God has given me and just what it is that i want. i'm discovering that knowing exactly what it is i want is terribly hard!

    As we (Danielle and Rebecca from my team are also joining me in Colorado) drove up to Colorado to staff a summer, i was listening to a favorite radio program of mine called This American Life. Each show has a theme and this show's theme was "Big Wide World". The show explored when your world is suddenly blown apart and becomes a lot bigger for you. This exact thing happened to me as i experienced seeing the mountains out here for the first time. This is the farthest west i have ever been in my life and i'm realizing the God's world is way bigger than i've ever experienced and ever can experience. It excites me! It also blows apart my small ideas of what i think my future will look like and leaves me craving more experiences like this one! Just look at those mountains. If you look in the bottom third towards the left our camp is right around there, in the foothills of those mountains! It's amazing.

    i'm actually in Colorado for a reason. This is my summer assignment for Crusade. i'm staffing a summer camp for inner city kids from Denver. i'll be discipling college students from around the country as they work the camp and i'll be working the camp myself too! i'm excited to see how things work here since they havent told me much. i'm expecting God to do big things out here. Would you please pray that God would work in my life providing me with direction and a servant's heart out here and for the college students that i will disciple? Thanks so much! Please excuse the quick prayer letter! Computer access is very limited here which is something i'm quite excited about!

    Again, thank you so much for your support. i realize that without your generosity i would not be having these new experiences and it means a lot that you would care enough about me to provide them for me. Take comfort in knowing that your gift is impacting eternity through the students i will be able to minister to this summer. You're storing up great treasures in heaven through your gifts!!

    Your friend,

    James!