So grateful for the incredible community of intercessors and givers that keep me and my team in business! Thanks for your prayers for our weekend in St. Louis. Here’s our current team minus Jake (Kansas Univ) and Tom (Iowa State). We took a few minutes early in our weekend to ask the question, “Are we thankful servants?” I had brought a four-page spreadsheet (pic below) – 12 columns wide and 519 rows long! I handed it out and had the staff look at it (impossibly small micro-dinky font in order to fit on one page-width). Every active donor this team has recruited was on that spread-sheet (519 of them). If you’re reading this your name is probably somewhere on that sheet! The columns? July 2024 through June 2025, a year’s worth of giving by our entire team’s donor base. It’s overwhelming to look at it. And you need to know this team is sooooo grateful for every dollar. And we’re grateful for every thought and every prayer. Thank you so much!

NaKhia Grays is an InterVarsity staff director in the D.C. area (center picture in the gallery above). I have gotten to know her this past year – she’s a ministry coach for a new staff member I am encouraging in fund-raising. NaKhia made the mistake of mentioning to me during a coaching call that she is a Working Genius trainer! I invited her to take my team through Working Genius. We burned 3 hours Saturday morning with NaKhia before we knew it! We had to zoom Tom in from Ames.

Hope you had a great weekend. My Saturday was terrific! We had a GCF brunch – Belgian Waffles and Sermon on the Mount. Then I went on a monster bike ride in 95 degree weather! 33.5 miles with a massive bought of cramps in my quads as a reward when I got back. I was writhing in pain on the living room floor till my quick-thinking wife pealed a banana and shoved it toward my gaping mouth! Slept pretty well last night.

Have a terrific week. Thanks again for your support!