December 2010
Steve Tamayo

Meet Steve Tamayo
He is our South Florida Area Director and is pictured here with his son, Will.  After moving to Florida this summer, he and Amy still need your prayers for a new community of friends and church home.
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Greetings!
During this busy Christmas season, please join me in taking time to "remember that God's insertion of himself into human history was achieved with an almost frightening quietness and humility" (JB Phillips).

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Commitments to Jesus in South Florida!
Steve Tamayo writes: "We've seen 10 students in South Florida become Christians so far this semester!  And every student's story is special. Bill Harward, our staff pictured above in the background, shares excitedly about the Taiwanese student who decided to follow Jesus as she read about him in the gospels.  At Florida Atlantic Univeristy, Deb can tell you about the Muslim student who wanted to know Jesus after seeing visions of him in the clouds around campus.  At BC, the two students who have become Christians this Fall had been consistently and faithfully prayed for and witnessed to by the IVCF chapter.  Every story is special" and is fruit of your investment of prayer and support.
Please Be in Prayer for:
  • New staff and funding for South Florida
  • Discernment in hiring decisions
  • Increased funding to provide more adequate salaries
  • Breakthroughs for 5 staff facing major deficits
  • Stability through various staff transitions

  • Development of contacts at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
  • Summer Mexico mission and various Spring Break projects
  • Our three Spring Conferences
     
  • Unusually strong momentum through Spring New Student Outreach
  • Sonburst hotel negotiations in December

  • Our national Latino Conference in Dallas on Dec. 27-31
  • Greek ministry growth at Stetson and University of North Florida
  • Teams of staff to serve Sarasota and Daytona
  • New Latino and International Student Ministry staff
  • Expansion of community college ministry
Let Us Rejoice In:
  • A strong sense of partnership in common mission on a fun, talented, wholehearted team 
  • Strong cohort of new staff and the great training they're getting
  • Latino Fellowship possibilities at Florida State University and University of Central Florida
  • Moms who juggle babies and students

  • Strong student leadership teams & missional freshmen
  • New Area Director in South Florida: Steve Tamayo 
  • Black students impacted by REMIX, our first regional black student conference
  • Good small group strategies which multiply leaders and reach campus sub-cultures

  • Bold & creative outreaches
  • Sonburst recruitment most ever (530), conversions (10), etc...
  • Record conversions at University of Tampa
  • University of South Florida being in top 25 in country for number of conversions
  • A South Florida chapter we didn't know about!

  • Growth in overall student numbers 
  • Explosion of South Asian ministry at UCF and elsewhere
  • Groups Investigating God co-led by Christian and agnostic students at Florida State University 
     
  • Potential staff member for South Georgia
  • New chapter at Brevard Community College in Melbourne

  • Elsie Mokoban expands ministry to the fifth and final campus of Indian River State College
  • Good crew attending the Latino Fellowship Conference
  • Rebirth of the Rollins chapter
  • Excellent "God & Porn" outreaches in Tampa
  • Strong prayer movements in Ft. Myers and Ft. Lauderdale

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  • The highest concentration of black student leaders nationwide at University of South Florida
  • Nurses Christian Fellowship growing in South Florida
  • Solid overall financial footing
  • Unexpected growth of black student ministry at Jacksonville University
  • Students
Please consider a year-end gift towards the transformation of Florida students.  See a variety of ways to give at www.intervarsity.org/donate.  Thank you!

In Christ,

Evan and Karen Keller