Tuesday, July 1, 2008

A School Year in Review continued!


This picture might be a little hard to make out. Its from our Regional Winter Conference. This year OSU won the lip sync. We danced to Circle of Life from Lion King. Paul (from our staff team) is holding the sign up top, he’s pretending to be baby samba. We believe his lack of clothes was a big part to our winning. This year 54 students came to the winter conference, that is more than OSU has sent in a long time. Many of the students jumped off the fence of a mediocre commitment to the Lord and ran towards Him as their Savior and Father.




This next picture is Lindsey with some other ladies at a women’s retreat. The women’s ministry team completely ran this and even spoke! We has a great time. The girl on the far left is Layla she accepted Christ at one of the weekly CRU meetings this year!



This is from our spring break trip to Utah! We’re not all pictured but what a fun group! We learned a lot about the Mormon religion on this trip, it was good to explore their religion and to share about our relationships with Christ with them!




This is some Epic guys on the way to Epic Conference. Aaron (right) was the student leader this year and is passing the baton onto Chase (back right) Please pray for Chase!
Brent loves the Crux retreat! I think its because he gets to go rafting almost every weekend to prepare with the Crux team. What a tough job! This year these men lead the charges along with Brent: Keith, Luke and Ben. At the retreat men are challenged physically, socially and Spiritually. It was a good turn out and great sunny weather for their outdoor pursuits!

These are Lindsey’s senior gals! Some are returning though. Alaina is the gal doing the Vogue. She’s in Australia right now on summer project!

These are a graduating seniors. Each year we pray and commission our seniors sending them to the world to make disciples of all nations. This year we gave them certificates remind them of this commission and to graduate them from CRU! The blond gal in pink is Rachel, she's getting married in 5 days.. on my birthday!

A Year In Review!






Our OSU Staff team started off the year with prayer and excitement!
This picture is Brent with Aaron the Epic leader, discussing their dreams for the school year. At our vision retreat.

This next picture is Aaron, (who is interning with us next year) Chris, and Shawn modeling the lovely Freshman survival kit laundry bags! We had 1000 students to meet and share Christ because of those lovely bags!

For the First time The Epic Movement students joined fall retreat! Brent’s Brother was the speaker for that retreat. Everyone really enjoyed his teaching. We really enjoyed having all the O’Neill’s in town!






Students from our Halloween Cru! The guy in the middle with the hat is Daniel he dressed as Allan(on our staff team) for Halloween. And he’s going to lead worship next year!


This is Noel! Lindsey disciple her this year. She has grown in depth of Love and commitment to the Lord and now she’s on summer project in Tahoe! She got baptized in the lake at the end of June down there!

Crazy students at our Christmas Party! Neha is second from the right, she is one of the international ladies Lindsey got to spend time with this year! Kylie is to the left of Neha, she’s on summer project in Venezuela right now!
Adena, Brent’s Assistant Director left for a year to serve in Costa Rica! We miss her a lot but we're glad she is where the Lord wants her right now. Please pray for the team of 5 americans over there! (Adena, Leah, Lauren, Jason and Jared)



Nathan married Julie and added another member to our staff team! Way to go! We’re hoping they will join us when school starts back up in the fall!
I am thankful to have Simone (from Cameroon) and Rukshana (from Sri– Lanka) in my life. Please pray for Rukshana she doesn’t know if she will be able to afford OSU next year! Please pray that the Lord has her do what will be best for her schooling and relationship with Him.