Monday, February 18, 2008

Inaugural Blog


Welcome! I'm glad you found us here. I'll give you just a little bit of background (hopefully not enough to bore you!), and tell you a little bit about where we hope to be going.

My name is Christine, and I live in a beautiful, colorful neighborhood in San Francisco, called The Mission District. I love my city.

God brought me & my husband here about 3 years ago to work with college students through Campus Crusade for Christ. Honestly, it's been a difficult journey since then. This can be a tough, dry, lonely place to live, and we've had a rough go at it. But through it all, God kept a deep love in our hearts for the city, the culture, the people, our neighborhood, and college students. We've learned a lot, and opened our minds & hearts to new ways of experiencing Jesus and growing in him.

For the last 3 years, we've worked with an amazing team... but God is starting something new, calling people in different directions, and next year, Chris & I will be the only ones left in San Francisco, starting a new team, and leading this experiment called City Limits.

So that's a bit of the background... now where are we going?

We are hoping to start a community of everyday people who are seeking to live out the Gospel in real life. We want to reach out to the college campus (specifically San Francisco State University) and to the community (our inner city neighborhood) with Jesus' love, and see if we can't bring those two worlds together.

We want to express and experience Jesus' love through art, story, community, and through serving & loving the needy in our neighborhood.

This is still in the "dreaming" stage, and we hope to get things rolling with a new team in the Fall. If you are interested in being a part of that team-- as a student, an intern, or a volunteer-- or if you think you know someone crazy enough to try this out, please let us know.
We would love to have you along for the journey.

2 comments:

Daniel Curran said...

Great Christine, let the conversation begin!

Anonymous said...

Christine,
I just found out we have this neat blog!!!
Can I be a contributor?