Summer Internship Reinvisioned

After two very significant and successful events - the Weekend Conference in Mobile and the Week-long mini-internship with Campus Outreach from Georgia College - we’ve decided to reenvision our summer internship program. We will no longer be conducting the month-long summer internship that I used to run at Desire Street Ministries. Pray for me as I begin the process of hearing from God on a more efficient way to shape this vital program of Rebirth.
It is now our belief that in the future we will do more for the kingdom by shortening the experience and inviting more participants. We do not have a facility from which to operate the program but believe that the Lord will supply. Feel free to contact me directly regarding this opportunity.

Georgia College Students Make a Big Difference in New Orleans

Spring break. You know the scene. Uninhibited revelry. Youthful self-indulgence. Partying, drinking and girls gone wild! Stop the tape.
Call CNN, Fox News and MTV. It seems there’s a group of young people that are seriously breaking the mold. They are doing unto others, they are loving their neighbor and changing their world.
They rise early and retire late.
They serve others selflessly by gutting flood damaged homes, assisting minority owned small businesses, tutoring inner-city youth and restoring order from chaos by meeting basic administrative and marketing needs of recovering ministries. They paint walls, build furniture, design logos, organize mailings. They awaken to reading the scriptures. They do not retire until they’ve pondered and internalized the hardest sayings of Christ and have considered the lofty character attributes of sacrifice, justice and mercy, redemptive suffering and of charity and love towards those who are poor. They raise their own support from willing donors. They encourage, smile and are grateful for the opportunity to serve.
Wow! If this is the next generation of young Christian leaders…then the church will indeed be in good hands. They have served their college in the most distinguished way. They have represented their college ministry as worthy emmissaries. They have honored their families and their hometowns at heroic levels. They have made us proud. And yet they will defer the credit and hope that their service was used by God for His glory. All I can say is…wow!
I know you will want to join me in honoring their service and in following their example. These 19 students from Georgia College’s Campus Outreach, we salute you and express our heartfelt gratitude!
Sam Rauschenberg - Senior - Economics and Political Science, Dalton, GA

Jason Berl - Senior - Rhetoric, Moultrie, GA

Ashley Bohanon - Senior - Mass Communications and Public Relations, Conyers, GA

Jason Hughes - Junior - Special Education, Lillburn, GA

Richard Kerr - Junior - International Business, LaGrange, GA

Emily Allen - Sophomore - Economics, LaGrange, GA

Elyssa Sanner - Sophomore - English, Evans, GA

Bonnie Kelly - Sophomore - Special Education, Lillburn, GA

Jess Parks - Junior - Art, Lillburn, GA

Katie Woods - Sophomore - Special Education, Kennesaw, GA

Jenny Proffitt - Sophomore - Community Health, Marrietta, GA

Nadirah Ross - Senior - Mass Communications and Public Relations, Sparta, GA

Kat Mann - Junior - Psychology, Macon, GA

Lane Coursey - Freshman - Undeclared, Conyers, GA

Brent Adams - Junior - History, Savannah, GA

Brian McDaniel - Junior - English, Lawrenceville, GA

Lauren Crowley - Freshman - Undeclared, Augusta, GA

Whitney Fee - Sophomore - Mass Communications, Martinez, GA

Kelly Hartman - Graduate - Campus Outreach Staff, Augusta, GA

Concert for Campus Outreach at Georgia College

I just returned from a short trip to Georgia where I had the opportunity to speak and perform a concert at the Campus Outreach of Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville. It was especially encouraging to have the opportunity to spend time with these extraordinary young men and women both before and after the concert. Thanks to all who came and especially to those who generously contributed to Rebirth International. Special thanks to Glenn Wilkins for the invite and to Sam Rouschenburg for coordination. Also I want to especially thank Jaimie (aka Jeannie) for jumping behind the mike with me at my invitation. You did a great job and are quite talented! Within a couple of days a group of about 20 students from that college will be travelling to New Orleans to help in the city’s recovery. Pray that they might have safe travels and that the Lord’s blessing will be upon us as we explore God’s word together over spring break.

I also had the opportunity to visit with an old high school friend of mine from Macon named Steve Lee. Special thanks to he and his wife Joanie for their hospitality and renewed friendship. Please pray for them that God would continue to bless Steve’s graphic design company called Catalyst as well as their sweet family.

Former Interns Launch a Support Apparatus for Indigenous Ministry in Tanzania

Sydney Schaeff and Melissa Reyes, two former interns, are busy supporting an indigenous ministry work in Tanzania. Melissa has graduated from the University of Florida and is now working at Campus Crusade International in Orlando, Florida. Sydney will be graduating this year from the same university and will begin teaching with Teach for America in Los Angeles, CA.
During their breaks from college they have helped to raise enough support to launch an orphanage and start a school for street kids in Tanzania. Some college kids pride themselves in becoming active in God’s work in the world, but these two have taken the cake!
You can read all about their work and vision at www.hananasif.orgFormer Interns Launch a

Prayer Alert

Please spread the word throughout the body of Christ wherever you are to build a prayer movement for our dear friend Stacey Howard. Stacey gave her life to Christ through our ministry in Desire many years ago. She has developed a rare condition or disease that is causing her lungs to atrophy. The doctors are mystified and unable to treat the condition. She has seen nearly a dozen specialists who are unable to properly diagnose or treat her condition - she has lost almost half the functionality of both lungs. She may require lung transplant surgery but we are praying for God to perform a miracle in her life. She is dear to so many of us in New Orleans!