Beth Beach
GIVE:
CRU
(Cleveland and NE Ohio)
Address: 100 Lake Hart Dr. Orlando, FL 32832
Phone: 888-278-7233
PRAY:
I
would love prayers for my health. I am about a year into Lyme treatment and
mold detox. I would say that I feel about 60% better, which is wonderful and
great progress! Please pray that I would continue to respond well to
treatment and be at 100% by this time next year. I would also love prayer for
preparing and planning for the next school year. God has been faithful during
a year of many unknowns and not being able to meet with students
face-to-face. While I am so thankful for Zoom, my team and I are eager to be
back on campus in the fall. Please be praying for us as we plan for the next
year.
GO (Serving Opportunity):
I know
there is a distance between Marysville and Cleveland so I’m not sure of what
hands out experiences there might be. We do often have Spring Break trips in
Cleveland where we could explore what it might look like for volunteers to
join that week, if a desire is there! I think the biggest way to partner
would be in connecting graduating high school seniors to Cru movements around
Ohio. I would love to be able to connect with with high school seniors who
are interested in hearing more about Cru, whether that is in Cleveland or
connecting them to other staff I know.
2021 Christmas Card from Beth Beach
Michael Gray
GIVE:
Michael
and Amy Gray, through Cru
Address: 534 Fitzwilliam Way,
Orlando, FL 32828
Email: michael.gray@cru.org; amy.gray@cru.org
PRAY:
a. Our
girls’ schooling – We’ve been homeschooling this year, even though the school
building was open (neither we nor our girls believed they could handle masks
and distancing all day every day).
Katie is almost 11 (April 18th) and will be in 6th grade next year,
while Emily is almost 8 (April 22nd) and will be in 3rd grade. (Some particularities about Katie are also
a reason we’re not sure it’s best to send her into 6th grade at a public
school.) We’ve begun looking at a
co-op, so if we homeschool next year (which is very likely), then it’s also
likely we’ll do the co-op one or two days-a-week.
b. Time balance of life and work – This could potentially always be a
prayer request, especially with the girls at home.
c. Fruitful sabbatical – As mentioned above, our summer assignment is for a
sabbatical, and what’s mentioned in our “Summer Goals” would be our prayer
requests for it.
d. God’s provision financially and in every other way – As is one point of
this application, we are pursuing more financial partnerships in order to be
in a better position to do what God has called us to.
We have currently a number of practical
life realities (house necessities and vehicle maintenance, for example), as
well as our ongoing theological and ministry development (Mike with seminary
classes and Amy with business analyst training opportunities), just to name a
few things.
But provisions we’re
asking for also include wisdom and discernment in parenting, our ministry
work, and the aforementioned time balance.
GO (Serving Opportunity):
If
there are people in the congregation who are interested, we could work to put
them in touch with one or more of the many Cru campus movements in and around
central Ohio.
October -November 2021 Newsletter
William Cross
GIVE:
Ministry
of William Cross with Bridges International/Cru
Address: 2869 Easy Street Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Phone: 937-594-3423
Email: william.cross@bridgesinternational.com
PRAY:
12-1-2021 Prayer Request from William Cross
12-2021 William Cross Thank You Card
GO (Serving Opportunity):
There
are various opportunities
available, if volunteer teams are interested in visiting or already have students attending one of our campuses, that my team would love to discuss
with further.
