Campus Life Prayer Request

Hello Friends,
In this months letter I would like to ask you all to pray for a boy in my Pasadena Campus Life group who I will call “Cal”. Cal hasn’t been coming to our group for very long …perhaps a little short of a year. His parents are involved in his life very little, in fact, he has been raised by his grandmother for most of his life. Cal has been to many psychologist and other types of doctors to help him deal with severe anger issues, depression etc… He is also on so many different types of medication for his behavioral problems that I have lost count. Cal is obviously a young man who is lost and in a lot of pain.
On January 12-14 we will be taking a group of our students to a winter retreat called AVALANCHE. Most of the kids we are taking are non-Christian and they will hear the gospel in a very real and direct way.
I was very hesitant on taking Cal on this trip because of his behavior problems. He is often very disruptive during our weekly meetings. He has been practically begging me to let him go on this trip for sometime now. A few weeks ago, after he had misbehaved very badly during one of our meetings I told him that I was probably not going to allow him on this trip. The look that came on his face once I said this broke my heart. He literally looked like he was about to cry. I noticed some changes in his behavior after that. Although he is still disruptive at times, he goes out of his way to help me and the other adult staff step up the room before meetings and helps clean up afterward as well. I really felt the Lord leading my heart to take Cal on this trip. Just before Christmas I told Cal I was going to take him on this trip with us. His face lit up and he started jumping up and down in the middle of the room cheering. He looked like a young child excited on Christmas morning.
Please pray for Cal this coming weekend. Pray that God will do great things in his heart and change him in amazing ways. Also pray that he behaves and doesn’t cause much trouble on the trip. I am still a little nervous about taking him, but I am trusting the Lord is going to do awesome things. Pray also that this young man will come to trust Christ with his life.
Thank you all so much for partnering with me in this ministry through your faithful prayers!


In Christ,
Gregory Shade