http://www.relevantmedia.org the ministry of Ryan and Rachel Strandt with Campus Crusade for Christ Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:58:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We hope you are encouraged, celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior during this Christmas season. We have been encouraged this year by your prayers and support as we continue in the ministry that the Lord has provided to us and to you. Thank you for being a part ... http://www.relevantmedia.org/christmas-08/ We want to make it easy to connect with us. Here is the response form from our letter. Hope it is easy for you. Thanks. If you missed our letter or did not get a chance to read our letter, you can read it here. We hope we've made it easy ... http://www.relevantmedia.org/dec-letter_response/ As we approach the end of another year, we are reminded of all that has happened over the past several years. After completing our support in August of 2006, we moved from Chicago to Indianapolis, to dive into full-time ministry. We bought our first house and turned it into a ... http://www.relevantmedia.org/dec-08-letter/ On the Thursday before Fall Retreat, I (Rachel) got an "urgent" email from a Greg, a Butler student. In this email, he tells me that Allie, another Butler student, is dying to go to Fall Retreat, but just can't afford to go. He is practically begging me to scholarship her. ... http://www.relevantmedia.org/nov08-results-from-fall-retreat/ As we continue to build Christ-centered laborers and plant movements in our quest to see every student know someone who truly follows Jesus, we need to build the skills that are necessary to help accomplish this goal. Hence, this semester's Ministry Skill Set Training conferences. This fall, our region has been ... http://www.relevantmedia.org/oct08-what-is-a-skill-set/ Even though our support has not been 100% for some months now, that does not mean that we have not been taken care of by the Lord and the ability to continue in ministry has been such a blessing. In recent months we have seen some new friends join our ... http://www.relevantmedia.org/the-lord-continues-to-bless-us/ Ever since Braden was born, I (Rachel) have been asked, by just about everyone, what I will be doing this fall. In fact, I have even asked myself. I have the wonderful opportunity to stay home with Braden, and eventually our other children, if that is in our future. However, ... http://www.relevantmedia.org/sept-08-braden-in-ministry/ Rachel and I are getting used to being parents and adjusting to ministry with a larger family. After our summer on crossroads which was very encouraging and seeing some support come in, we are starting the fall semester still needing $1300 in monthly support. http://www.relevantmedia.org/the-lord-continues-to-provide/ The students who were on the Crossroads SP this year wrote about their experience and we thought you should here about it. "Strong work is motivated by dynamic purposes." For the Crossroads Summer Project team, our motivation rose from the chance to use our unique skills and talents for the ... http://www.relevantmedia.org/july-08-from-the-students-of-crossroads/ I have started working with a new ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ. The Global Short Film Network seeks to use short films to interact with students and others on deeper spiritual issues. You can read more about the GSFN on their website. I have been helping prepare the videos to ... http://www.relevantmedia.org/global-short-film-network/