We're on the News!

Hi All,

Every year CCC has a conference, Big Break, during the month of March. Students from all over the east coast come for spring break to party with friends and soak up the sunshine. Big Break gives CCC students the opportunity to share their faith with peers on the sand throughout the week. I attended Big Break with Boston students the past two years. This year, the conference made the local news! So nice to see something positive being broadcast. Watch the link below...


http://flash.video.worldnow.com/wjhg/WJHG_1603201117590112305_8817793C.mp4


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Pray for Japan

Like me, I'm sure you've seen the devestating images of Japan all over the news. My heart breaks for them all. Thankfully, all CCC staff are ok. Below is an email from one of our international staff there. Written on Friday, March 11th.


You may have heard about large 8.8 earthquake in northern Japan. Around 2:46pm, I felt the whole church building I was in swaying, so exited and knelt on the cement and prayed for Japan. I knelt both in prayer, but also because I felt like I would fall otherwise from the strength of the rocking of the ground under my feet. Sanae-san and I prayed together, wondering about the severity. Soon after, I spoke with Cam and made my way to the kids' school, finding them all on the field. Interestingly, at 2:45pm the day before, the school had conducted an earthquake drill. Today, the announcement included, "This is not just a drill." But that was obvious. The aftershocks have lessened, but now the images on the news are producing the shocks. The area around where we vacationed last summer (Miyagi) is flooded, and possibly hundreds of bodies (so hard to write this) are being found. But all JCCC staff are accounted for.



Cell phones and trains not working meant many people are stranded, and a few extra kids are spending the night here tonight. As I turned out the light in the girls' room, we noticed more aftershock tremors.



People think about what they believe in at times like this. The ground shaking so hard has an effect like this. Our national student conference, called CHANGE Conference begins this Monday and we'll be having a day of outreach (which Cam is in charge of) where we'll have these kinds of conversations with people all over Tokyo. Please pray for open hearts across Japan. (I've felt tremors twice since I began writing.)



Hebrews 12:25-29 says, "25See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven? 26 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”27 The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.

28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, 29 for our “God is a consuming fire.”

Thank you for your prayers.
Love, Cam and Kristen