Change the World - animation

One of my teammates, Val, who studied animation as a student, put my design to movement and sound! Here's the final piece. The video will hopefully be used as an intro video for InterVarsity chapters' large group meetings or events. Great job, Val!

Prayer Letter Templates

I wish I knew the number of prayer letters that are sent out each month but I think it's a LOT. (1000 full time InterVarsity staff x at least 100 donors each = 100,000. And I'm sure there are tons more!) These letters represent stories of God changing lives through InterVarsity, they represent passionate staff who are giving their lives to the mission, and they represent hundreds of thousands of people who support the work through their financial giving and prayers. People like you!

A project I have been working on for the past several months is creating user-friendly, attractive prayer letter templates that staff can use to communicate with their partners. Here are a few samples of the final designs!

Please pray that these prayer letters will be useful for staff - that they will clearly communicate God's work and encourage our partners to continue supporting the ministry of InterVarsity.

Banner Designs

Wanted to show you a couple of banners I've designed recently. The white banners go with a New Student Outreach package I worked on this spring. The blue banners are for Asian American ministries.

Hard at work for Orientation for New Staff

As promised, here are a few pictures of the display I worked on! The first photo shows a little diorama I made while coming up with the design. The rest are photos of the actual thing set up onsite!

 

 

 

My June update is a video! View here:

Team Day with 2100

Yesterday I spent the day with the 2100 team at a farm! (From Madison it does not take very long to get to farm land.) We had a great day of fellowship, learning and discussion. In the morning we read through Romans 12 as well as shared about significant things we've each experienced the past 6 months. Later in the afternoon we talked about our strengths using a training tool called StrengthsFinder. It was interesting and encouraging to learn about how each of us have different strengths, and to think about how we can use what we're naturally good at and enjoy doing in our respective roles. We also had some down time to just relax, spend time together and play games. We also finally got to take a group photo!

left to right: Jill, Matt (the photographer!), Becky, Steve (standing), Scott (sitting on floor), Dan, Val, Grete, Gary, me, David, Mike and Glenn. 

 And here I am playing croquet for the first time! And I won! :)

Here are some ways you can be praying for our team:

• Pray that the Team Day would bear fruit in the relationships we have with each other both as Christian brothers and sisters as well as colleagues.
• Pray that our team would continue to work together well towards our mission of communicating the gospel to students.
• Pray for God's provision in our overall financial needs. Each of us has been asked to raise an additional 3-5%.
• We will be joined by 4 new people next week. Adam Jeske will join us as Associate Director of Communications. Angela, Carolyn and Josh are interns who will work with us over the summer. Please pray for good transitions in joining our team and in their move to Madison.

Aisulu's last day

Today we said goodbye to our intern, Aisulu (pronounced Eye-soo-loo), pictured above in the middle. Originally from Kyrgyzstan, she was on staff there with IFES for several years. Since her fiance lives in Pennsylvania, she was looking for an opportunity to work/live a little closer and was able to connect with InterVarsity since we are part of IFES (an umbrella organization for student groups all over the world!).  It has been a great time having her on the graphics team these past few months. I learned a lot about Kyrgyzs culture, and in helping her learn more about graphic design, it's helped me verbalize ideas and principles, which has been a good way for me to learn as well!

Aisulu is moving to Pennsylvania where she and her fiance will be married. She is hoping to get another internship or opportunity in the graphic design industry. Please pray for God's provision and guidance as she moves on to the next chapter of her life!

New interns will be joining us for the summer starting June 1st. I'll write more about them when they arrive!