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HealthyFellow.com

2009-05-06T08:22:00.000-07:00

Saw this interesting blog about various health tips, it's interesting. Not sure what to think about it. It's a natural health blog.

Ethan Playing Soccer

2007-03-24T08:07:00.001-07:00

Princess

2007-03-24T08:05:00.000-07:00

Big Break Update...

2007-03-13T07:12:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! I apologize for the mass email but I wanted to give a quick update about Big Break 2008. I am also looking for a productive reason to take a break from studying for my Greek exam!

Amy and I are so thankful to all of you for your prayers. We got on the road last Friday planning on stopping halfway between Detroit and Panama City Beach but Ethan and Libby decided they wanted to get to Mama and Papa's without stopping. They were amazing and we made the 18 hour drive in one day stopping only for gas!

Our students arrived the next day safe and sound. Monday and Tuesday Amy was really sick and that threw a bit of a kink in the works but God was glorified in it as our students stepped out and led one another well. Monday evening I was able to speak to the 150 or so students from MI, IL, IN, and OH on Colossians 1:15-20 and the following evening to about 30 men from MI about true manhood.

The week was incredible on the evangelism from too! There were 500 students from all over the country and they initiated over 2500 conversations and saw more than 80 people trust Christ. The students from Central Michigan University (whom I lead from a distance) and the University of Detroit Mercy saw two people trust Christ!

God is so good! Thank you so much for praying! I suppose it's time to go back to Greek...

Dan Rose | Detroit CRU | Campus Crusade for Christ
309.531.4291 | dan.rose@uscm.org
Detroit CRU
Campus Crusade for Christ

February Newsletter

2007-02-26T16:30:00.000-08:00

Hello! Wow, the last two months have disappeared. Since we returned home from Christmas Conference, where more than forty students from Detroit and Central Michigan University were able to grow deeper in their relationship with Christ, life has been fast paced! Ethan is playing indoor soccer and has had his skill assessment for spring baseball. Libby has started taking gymnastics at our community recreation center. Ministry has been incredibly busy. Almost every weekend has found us engaging with students about Jesus. Seminary is also in full swing as I am taking four classes including my second semester of Greek. There is light at the end of the tunnel! By the end of this semester I will be one third of the way through.

Have you heard of Facebook? It is a social networking website where students from High School through College along with large corporations can connect with one another. This semester we have begun to take advantage of this technology! We have been advertising our evangelistic website, everydetroitstudent.com on Facebook targeting the campuses that we have movements on. It has been great to see the response. Thousands of students have visited our website and over twenty have indicated decisions for Christ. We are trying to follow up with those students where possible.

The other side of this coin is the opportunity to enter into conversation with lost students about Jesus. They are able to email us questions about anything they want. I have been able to dialog with a handful of students who are honestly struggling with what they believe about Jesus. They have many questions and are able to ask them in a way that is non-threatening. I wanted to give you a sample of what one of these students is wrestling with in his own words. I have been able to email back and forth with him over many of these issues.

This is from Neal:

“Have you read Richard Dawkins "The God Illusion"? You should. You should understand that the "truth" is not within the bible but rather when we look at ourselves and the world around us not into a single book which results intellectual inbreeding. Relying in the false hope that your bible preaches to solve problems is a path to generational stagnation. Look at this through a historical perspective. The dark ages for example were ruled by a religious overtone. Now in contrast look at the age of enlightenment and all we have discovered since then. It was only when the grip of the church was released that any real discovery was made in the sciences and true understanding. You can stick with a flat world, a 14,000 year old earth and the boogeyman. I prefer the REAL TRUTH of science and you should too because when your family member is really sick. You can take him or her to a church for a faith healing by a fake who or you can take that person to a hospital where science prevails. What will you choose?”

It is amazing! This is only one example of many students asking real questions! Thank you so much for helping to make it possible for us to be on campus engaging these students. Amy and I love to be able to enter into the lives of these students. On behalf of these students we thank you!

Libby Dancing - Warning This is Funny!

2007-02-14T04:27:00.000-08:00

Ethan Singing - Warning This is Funny!

2007-02-14T04:26:00.000-08:00

New Pictures Are Up!

2006-12-18T21:41:00.000-08:00

For more great shots like this one head to:
Yahoo Photos

December Newsletter

2006-12-18T21:36:00.000-08:00

Hello! The Christmas season is well on its way. This past weekend we celebrated the second week of Advent at our church’s worship gathering. It was a great reminder of how great our Savior and our God really is. The best part of Christmas is the fact that the glory of Christ is revealed everywhere! The first Saturday in December is Noel Night in Detroit. The culmination of the evening was the Salvation Army Band leading a few thousand people in the singing of traditional Christmas Hymns. Amazing!

At the end of each semester we take time to evaluate and think about what God has done and where we believe God is leading us in the future. This semester is no different. Amy and I praise God for how he is clearly at work in the lives of college students. I think of Jose as he faithfully and passionately leads our movement at the University of Detroit-Mercy. Then I think about Lawrence Technological University and how a leadership team is beginning to slowly catch the heart of what it means to be a movement. Finally, I sit in awe of God’s goodness as he provides for the movement at Central Michigan University with solid laborers who love one another.

A few weeks ago our staff team went to the University of Detroit-Mercy to share our faith. Jose and I wrote our own survey to use while engaging lost students. One of the questions on the survey was “What are the three biggest questions you want answers to right now?” I think the answers will both encourage you and break your heart:

o Why am I here?
o Does God exist?
o Will I die being a loser and a failure?

As I read those questions my heart is broken for these students. We sat and discussed these questions and talked about the answers. The really fun part is that the students came from every walk of life. Sitting around a table in Grounds there were white students, Hispanic students, and African American students. It was incredible. The Lord used this scene to remind me again why we are on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ. God is at work on the college campus.

Amy and I are so grateful for your ongoing and faithful support. Each year that goes by we are humbled by your faith and how the Lord continually uses you to bless us and thousands of college students.

October 2006 Newsletter

2006-10-23T19:40:00.000-07:00

The last few weeks have flown by! As I head out to campus every day I am blown away by the creativity of our God. The trees in Southeastern Michigan are in full blown color and it is truly amazing. Each weekend we have been treated to Tiger and University of Michigan victories. The World Series has reached fever pitch here as the Cardinals and Tigers are facing off. Our family loves baseball and now our two favorite teams are battling it out for supremacy. Ethan’s t-ball season is over and he loved playing. Libby informed us that her favorite baseball player is Ethan!

There is so much to share this month but we wanted to do something a little different this time. Amy and I thought you might enjoy hearing from some students and the influence that your partnership with us is making. First, one of our former students, Emily Perkins, has recently moved to East Asia where she is serving as a teacher and sharing the message of Jesus. Here is a portion of the letter that she sent us just after deciding to go overseas.

“Last Thursday I was offered a job with Network of International Christian Schools. There is a school in East Asia that had a sixth grade opening. After much prayer I accepted on Sunday night…

My family is slightly leary of me going. They worry about my safety and loneliness, but I have prayed continually that if it is not God's will for me to go that he would slam the door shut. It looks like instead of closing the door, he has left it wide open. I've told some of my friends that while so many things about teaching in East Asia scare me to death, I feel like I would be disobedient if I decide to stay here instead of going where the Lord is sending me….
I think and pray for you and Dan often. I can't tell you how many times in the past few years I look back on my experience at Illinois State and am thankful that you called to do a follow up with me after I filled out a survey. There is no way I would even think to go to China without the foundation that I received from my time with Campus Crusade. I pray that you continue to have a strong impact on the lives of the college students you work with. They are so blessed to have you in Michigan…

Emily”

October 13-15 was our annual Fall Retreat. It was amazing! The keynote speaker was Kevin Butcher a local pastor here in Detroit. He is a gifted preacher. Here are some quotes from the students who were there. These quotes are from our website and so I didn’t edit them.

SO from this whole weekend. It just feels as f the fire is burning threw my whole body. I am just in comfort right now. I have not felt like this in a long time. Plus the people from this weekend that were helping me out. just simply being a brother or sister in christ. Just the way they loved on me and the way I was able to love on them. I never felt so comfortable around so many people. It was awesome. I never knew people could be so cool and loving. Thank you Jesus.

the fall retreat was amazing, (which is different from a hazing).

the speaker seemed to be describing the last 2 years of my life in many respects.

at first i was like, "wow, there's so not many people here i know, this sucks".

after running into a good friend i had no idea was going to be there in my own cabin and meeting tons of other new people, my mind was changed much.

i am encouraged.

i still don't know why i am where i am. i still don't know where i'm going. but we shall see

.

One highlight from the weekend occurred on Saturday night when Kevin opened the floor for people to share. One student, Mona, stood and began sharing about how the weekend had impacted her and then said that God had been impressing on her to share her story. Mona spent the next ten minutes sharing how as a freshman at the University of Detroit she was a devoted Muslim. Up until the time she went to college she had worn her head covering and was fully observant. She was dating a nominally Christian young man and anytime he brought up Jesus she would swear at him and curse the name of Jesus.

During her sophomore year, Mona’s R.A. was a woman named Martha (who is now on our staff team). Martha sat down and shared the Four Spiritual Laws with Mona. Mona wanted nothing to do with Jesus or with the Four Spiritual Laws. A year later Mona found the little booklet in her book bag and read it again. This time though she did not curse Jesus but trusted Him for the forgiveness of her sin. A few weeks later she saw Martha at a Gospel Choir Concert on campus and embraced her and thanked her for sharing Jesus with her! It has not been easy for Mona since trusting Christ. Her family does not understand or like her decision to follow Jesus. Many of her family will no longer even acknowledge her. Mona trusting in Jesus has cost her more than most of us can imagine. The amazing thing is that this is happening in Detroit, USA not Istanbul, Turkey or Tehran, Iran.

In closing, I wanted to ask you to pray for a few things. Please pray that the Lord would continue to make in roads on the campuses of Detroit. He is at work and it is fun to be a part of it all! However, we long for an even deeper and wider outbreak in response to the gospel. Please pray for our student leaders as they continue to deal with the complexities of leading and being students. Please pray for us as we continue to trust the Lord for our support.

God is at work in the lives of students. Your partnership with us is helping to bring spiritual renewal to Metro Detroit and beyond. Thank you so much!

This Week...

2006-09-08T16:55:00.000-07:00

Hello all! This past week has been crazy! I wanted to thank you for praying. God really showed up on the campuses in Metro Detroit this week. At University of Detroit-Mercy we saw 170 students fill out surveys, 90 of which were men! There were 30 free Little Caesars Hot-n-Ready pizzas devoured in 5 minutes, and Chasing Elvis rocked the campus with the relevant message of Jesus.

This scene was basically repeated all over the Metro area. Thank you again for praying. God is receiving great glory and making his name known!

Dan Rose
Detroit CRU
Campus Crusade for Christ
309.531.4291
dan.rose@uscm.org
Detroit CRU
Campus Crusade for Christ

New Pictures!

2006-09-04T08:52:00.000-07:00

There are new pictures up at Yahoo! Photos

The new pictures are of Libby's birthday, Day Out With Thomas, and from the first Detroit Cru Leaderership Retreat.

September 2006 Newsletter

2006-09-04T08:51:00.000-07:00

Hello! It is hard to believe that the summer has gone and September is here. The last few months have been very full. Our family went to Indianapolis where Amy and I led the Crossroads Summer Project. During the summer I officiated my little brother’s wedding. Ethan and Libby were the ring-bearer and flower girl. This might be prideful, but, those little kids looked like a warrior prince and a beautiful princess that day! We also said goodbye to my Grandma Bev, who went to be with the Lord the following weekend. It was a whirlwind week with tons of emotions. Needless to say we were fighting to keep our heads above water at times this summer.

Crossroads Summer Project was an adventure! We were able to stay in the home of some friends who were overseas. The adventurous part was taking care of their dog, four fish, and one-acre lawn with a push mower! One of the best parts of the summer was Amy’s opportunity to play a role in the lives of two student women. She met with them each week and led their Bible study. It was fun for me to see Amy in action again and to be back in the midst of ministry together. This summer also provided an outlet for me to lead a team again. Last year was difficult as I realized how much I missed shepherding a staff team and ministry. Crossroads gave me the opportunity to do just that and I am grateful to the Lord for the opportunity.

In the midst of the summer Amy and I were struck again by the blessing that it is to be on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ. This came in the most unlikely of places: Ethan’s fifth birthday party. As we left Detroit for the summer I was saddened by the fact that Ethan would not be able to play ball this summer and have a “normal” summer. Those sentiments changed on July 14th. That day we saw staff friends, students, and family come together and invest in our son’s life by being at his party and playing a five-inning baseball game. I cannot communicate to you how deeply that marked Amy and I. What an amazing testimony of the grace of God to our family.

Upon returning to Detroit we knew that there was much to do this fall. However, I do not think that we are really prepared for all that we are about to face. As staff meetings kicked off the reality that we had lost four staff from our team hit us like a ton of bricks. We are trusting God for big things this fall on our campuses. We are kicking off strong the first week of September by bringing in a band called Chasing Elvis. They will be playing all over the metro area to help us connect with freshmen. Freshmen are the single most important people group on campus. If we can reach the freshmen class every year we will have reached the campus in four years! How amazing would that be to see over 200,000 students saturated with the message of Jesus? Freshmen are what get me out of bed in the morning after being up late from hanging with students.
Beyond ministry I am also taking two more seminary classes this fall, Greek and Spiritual Formation. I am looking forward to Greek. During class our professor reassured us that his class has made grown men weep! However, by the end of the first class, all of us were able to actually read Greek. But, did we have any idea what we were saying? Not a chance! Spiritual Formation is a class where we will develop a theology of what it means to be conformed to the likeness of Jesus. Specifically, we will be experiencing some of the classical spiritual disciplines like fasting and solitude. It seems like this will be a refreshing time in the midst of the chaos of ministry and Greek! I realized again this fall how much I hunger and thirst for learning. I can not tell you how excited I am to be in seminary and have the opportunity to grow deeper in my relationship with the Lord through the in depth study of his word and the community of believers!

Amy and I are so grateful for you. I do not think there is enough paper or hard drive space to tell you how thankful we are for your love, friendship, support, and prayers. Because we know that you are praying for us we wanted to pass on a couple of requests to you. Please pray for ministry this fall. Pray specifically for Lawrence Technological University, University of Detroit-Mercy, Schoolcraft College, and University of Michigan-Dearborn. LTU and UDM have established movements and we are trusting God to bring about explosive growth. Schoolcraft and U of M-Dearborn do not have a movement on campus and we need to see the Lord do something radical there. Please pray for our financial support. We are currently short $2,000 in monthly support that we need. Pray for Amy and I as we enter into the whole seminary thing together again this fall. We are both nervous about me taking Greek and the workload that it will demand.

Thanks so much for your faithful prayer and support! Amy, Ethan, Libby, and I are so grateful for all you do on our behalf.

Erik Steffen

2006-06-08T13:59:00.001-07:00

Many of you who read our most recent newsletter have been praying for Erik and Kelly Steffen. This past Saturday Erik went home to be with the Lord. His memorial service will be published on the web soon. Erik was an amazing guy who Amy and I met in 1996 in Ocean City, we were students on summer project and Erik was staffing it. It was a sad day yesterday as we went to the memorial. On the other hand we are joyful knowing that he is with Jesus.

Please pray for Kelly and their two little boys Alex (3) and Jensen (1). You can read more about them or donate to Alex and Jensen's college fund at their website.

New Photos

2006-05-30T13:26:00.000-07:00

There are new photos up! You can see some shots of the deck being built and also pictures from Mother's Day. Hope you all are doing well!

Pictures

Katrina and Campus Crusade for Christ

2006-05-29T19:18:00.000-07:00

Here are some thoughts from Rick Amos (the man who ran the CCC Katrina relief effort) regarding the impact that CCC had in the area.

As you know, Campus Crusade for Christ is a Christian organization. Regardless of where we are on our spiritual journeys, we believe that when we help those in need, we are actually expressing the reality of Jesus to people. This has always been our goal, on the university campus or elsewhere, and we trust and pray that we did this to the best of our ability. We witnessed a real world catastrophe, but we responded with real work, thereby showing the Gulf Coast residents a real hope.

In our damaged world, hurricanes can devastate lives and cities. In all, the hurricane affected 90,000 square miles, causing billions in property damages and displacing hundreds of thousands. Moreover, there were human tragedies that cannot be quantified – such as the loss of friends, family members and loved ones. This is the real world in which we live. This year, we needed to respond with real work. Let me share some conservative statistics regarding what we did together from September to April.

> Over 15,000 people volunteered, including 10,000 over spring break alone
> We prepared and distributed 250,000 meals
> We removed debris from well over 4,000 homes, schools and churches
> We cleaned 2,000 yards

Not only were we able to serve the Gulf Coast with real work, we were able to give its residents real hope as well. For example Kim, a New Orleans resident who lost her home to Katrina told us, “As bad as Katrina was, this is how good it is to make you feel like, yes, we still have Americans that love and care, complete strangers and step up to the plate and help.” The Reverend Leonard Lucas, a Lower 9th Ward pastor, told us, “just you being here (in the 9th Ward) told these people that they were not forgotten, gave them a hope for a new beginning and strengthened their faith for the future.” We are humbled that our efforts have made that kind of impact.

May 2006 Newsletter

2006-05-19T06:24:00.000-07:00

May 19, 2006

Last week, as Amy and I were relaxing and watching “The Apprentice”, I was struck by something that was said. This particular episode had the wannabe Trumps at Rutgers University. They were there to peddle Outback steaks and blooming onions by throwing a tailgate party. The two teams were running all over the place pumping up their parties and hoping that tons of students would come to drink beer and eat steaks on the cheap.
The men, who had a raging party going with the cheerleaders and dance team, lost big time. In the boardroom, “The Donald”, made this remark: “All college students want to do is drink and have sex.” Everyone laughed and then he proceeded to fire one of the poor chaps sitting in front of him. This statement has been simmering for a couple of days now. Is that true? Do college students just want to drink and have sex? This does seem to be the prevailing opinion in our culture, but is it true?

Amy and I have been intimately involved on the college campus since 1994 when we were students until now as staff with Campus Crusade. This is not the reality that we come face to face with everyday. Do students like to party? Yes. Do they drink beer? Yes. Do they have sex? Yes. This is not all they want to do though. In the last few years a transformation has begun, college students both Christian and non-Christian are more aware of their place in a larger global community. Students are serving selflessly all over the world. It is just as likely for a student to attend an “alternative” spring break as go to South Padre Island to party. For example, more than 8,000 students from around the US participated with Hurricane Katrina relief over four weeks during their spring breaks.

This low opinion of college students is not simply found in the general culture but it is also found in our churches. We do not know what to do with these students. In most people’s eyes they are not adults and yet obviously not children either. So what do we do? I was talking with a friend recently who was reading a book about the military. He was saying how it is amazing that the military is willing to trust a 19-20 year old with multi-million dollar equipment (jets, tanks, ships, bombs) and yet the church culture will not trust a student with leading a Bible study.

College students are the powerful percent. They are among the world’s elite who will one day lead our governments and drive our culture. They will be the Pastors, Elders, and Deacons of our churches. College students are not just about drinking and having sex. College students are searching. They are searching for a place to fit. They are searching for stability and they want to know if there is more out there than what they see. Please, hear us, college students are amazing. They have so much potential. More than ever the college campus may be the most significant mission field in the world. Thank you so much for your faithful investment in us and this key mission field.

Amy and the kids are doing great! Ethan is struggling through allergies and Libby is as precocious and beautiful as ever. We are finally settling in to our home. We realized that we never really did that this fall. I wrapped up my seminary classes this semester and I am looking forward to Greek in the Fall. Please pray for our financial support. Please pray for this summer as we lead a summer project in Indianapolis. Finally pray for our friends Erik and Kelly Steffen. They have two little boys and Erik is suffering through terminal cancer. You can read all about them at http://erikandkelly.ministryhome.org.

In Christ,
Dan and Amy

Ethan and Libby

2006-05-16T08:58:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures of Ethan's Spring Show at church:

Pictures

Here is some video from the show:

Video: You will need to scroll down to the download links and then click "download" then scroll a little further on the "download" page to find the download link.

Prayer Requests

2006-05-06T07:11:00.000-07:00

Please for a few things:
1. Pray that we would work diligently on support. We need to raise about $1500/mth.

2. Pray that all that needs to get done to lead the Crossroads Project will get finished up.

3. Pray for the students that are going on summer projects from around Detroit and at CMU.

April 2006 Newsletter

2006-04-03T19:33:00.000-07:00

The last month or so has been crazy! We have been all over the place with Spring Break and visiting family. Our whole family has been sick with some sort of cold (thankfully that seems to be over). My brother, David, came into town for about ten days earlier this month from Salt Lake City, UT. It was great to have him here! Ethan and Libby are doing really well. Libby has finally decided to talk now. It’s amazing to listen to the conversations that Ethan and Libby have together. They definitely keep us laughing! Ethan is still a little firecracker. He and Amy were working on catechism questions and she asked him, “How did God write the Bible?” After thinking this over for a moment Ethan responded, “With a pencil!” Pretty great!

Over spring break I took 32 students from Central Michigan University and the University of Detroit-Mercy to New Orleans, LA. Leading up to the trip I had no desire to go. My heart was hard and I had little to no compassion for the city or the people there. Sure, I felt bad about what happened to them but I did not want to go and help with the rebuilding. About ninety miles outside of the city all of that changed. The trees alongside the expressway were all down and there was trash all over the place. As we continued toward the city on the side of the road was a dead dog and two dead cats. All of them looked bloated as if they had been underwater for a long time. Then I saw in the median of the expressway a baby crib. My heart broke. These were real people and real families. I was overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the devastation.

As we continued into the city it was like driving into a nightmare. The place was a ghost town. There were abandoned cars and wrecked houses. All of them had the tell tale marks of a water line. When we arrived into New Orleans our living location changed twice because FEMA pulled our housing last minute (they pulled it on Thursday, 1500 students arrived on Friday!). The first night we stayed in an abandoned hotel where we had to clean our rooms with mold killer and bleach before we could even move in. The next day we packed our vehicles again and headed to Slidell, LA to work alongside of Operation Blessing (a Christian Disaster Relief Organization). We stayed there for the week and worked under them.

The homes that we worked on had been completely submerged by the hurricane. Actually, that’s true. They were submerged in water after the levies broke TWO days after the hurricane! We were working in one of the poorer areas called, St. Bernard’s Parish. As we drove into the parish everyday it was as if September 1 never ended. All the businesses were destroyed and their signs were unchanged from that horrific day. One morning as we drove into work there was a line of cars that stretched for a couple of miles. These people were all waiting to get food from a pantry. Our two work crews of students were able to gut four homes and prepare them for contractors to come in and rebuild.

This week challenged many of my assumptions about the character of God and who he is. The worst hit parts of the city were where the poor lived. These people had no insurance and have no means to rebuild. One man whom we talked to asked us to go back home and tell the story of what we saw. He said, “America has a short memory. Six months ago a hurricane destroyed our city. Nobody talks about it on TV anymore. To most of America this never happened. Please tell people about this and tell them to come help.”

If this city is going to be rebuilt the Church will have to do it. The government has passed out its money and trailers; they have nothing left to offer. The only way for these people to find hope and mercy is for us to go and bring it to them. I pray that the church will keep on going until the city is restored. These people need us and we need to show them that the church of the living God cares and so does He!

Video and pics...

2006-03-28T08:57:00.000-08:00

There is video from our Katrina trip here:

http://savefile.com/projects/474995

You can also check out the pics here:

http://photos.yahoo.com/daniel_m_rose

New Pictures and Video

2006-02-05T21:17:00.000-08:00

Here are some great shots of the kids!

Head here to see a video of Ethan and Libby sing!

http://savefile.com/files/3310495

A New Picture Place

2006-01-31T19:31:00.000-08:00

Hey all! I have discovered a new place to post our pictures that will be a long lasting solution. So, feel free to check it out at Yahoo! Photos.

Right now there are pictures from Christmas and pictures of New Orleans from a few weeks ago. I will be heading down there in just a few weeks with a group of students from University of Detroit, Central Michigan University, and Schoolcraft College.

Katrina

2006-01-26T09:12:00.000-08:00

Hi! As some of you know I will be leading a trip to do some relief efforts in New Orleans. I created a short video for you to see the reality that awaits us and that many are living in. You can access it here: Katrina Clip

Katrina Relief

2006-01-25T19:57:00.000-08:00

I just uploaded short video of stills that will give you a picture of the current state of affairs in New Orleans.

http://www.savefile.com/files/5989540