City Girl in a Small Town

This week, Chris & I drove down to San Luis Obispo and I had the privilege of speaking at their Campus Crusade for Christ meeting (W8) on God's Heart for the Poor.

It was so much fun to meet so many passionate, sincere students who were so eager to follow Christ. There really is something special going on there (plus it's just a great town-- so relaxing & dare I say quaint? I love it there). We got to talk to several graduating (or eventually-to-be-graduating!) students who were all fired up about our new team in SF... and many who were just excited about serving the poor in general. Yeah, it was a really great time.

Our hope & prayer now is that God would lead us to more students like the ones we met in SLO... and that some of those students we were able to meet would feel God's calling to join us in San Francisco. They would be super fun to work with =)

Revolution by Heather Zydek

I'm so excited about this blog. I've been reading and thinking about many related issues this summer. One of the best inspirations came from The Revolution: A Field Manual for Changing Your World. I liked it so much I just ordered several copies to share with friends. Message me if you'd like to borrow one! The reviews on amazon are great and informative. I especially enjoyed the articles on Fair Trade Economics and Gang Violence. They were intelligent and empowering. I finished them really feeling like I could make a difference. So, I sent in an application to become a mentor with Big City Mountaineers in hopes of becoming a mentor to some inner city kids in my favorite mountain environments. Check it out.

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.