Update - Kyle

1. Where are you working?
I'm working part time for Cru at Ball State and part time for my local church here in good ol' Muncie, IN. I've loved my time with Cru here--it has taught me way more than I ever imagined about things I thought I'd already mastered. I've gotten to teach with regularity, something that has confirmed God's call in my life to become a teacher.

2.Plans for next year:
I will be getting married in May! Then my wife and I will be moving to St. Louis so that I can begin my seminary studies at Covenant Seminary. I am so excited to begin this new stage in life. I've wanted to go to seminary for years, and finally I get to! I can't wait to be married and experience the joys and challenges of that intimate relationship. Beyond that, I hope to finish my M.Div. in three years before heading overseas to get my Ph.D.

3. Something significant the Lord has taught me the past 6 months:
Christo-centric hermeneutics: or to put it another way...the unity of Scripture found in the meta-narrative that finds it climax in Christ. Seeing the OT in light of Christ brings it alive. I've loved teaching it this year.

4.Serving the local church:
Guys, I love my church. In fact, it will be one of the hardest things to leave behind. It is gospel-centered, humble, community-oriented and growing. I get to teach a Sunday school at our church to the adults called "The Road to Emmaus: Seeing Christ in the OT". Teaching that class has really led me to believe God is calling me to become a teacher. I've preached at our prayer service and I will be teaching at two plenary sessions of our Spring conference tentatively title "God, the Church, and Homosexuality".

5. Other personal life updates:
I'm becoming slightly emerging--something that should shock you all. No but really, I feel like I'm starting to see the important contributions that the diversity of christian traditions has to offer the church. There are values that come behind that diversity that reflect different aspects of the gospel, even as different cultures get certain aspects of the gospel better than others (see: China, community).

6. Prayer requests:
-Wedding! Pray for the planning, but even more for the marriage that will Lord-willing result.
-Moving: Christy and I need to find jobs and place to live in St. Louis. So pray for the Lord's provision in that.
-Perseverance: that I would continue to push hard after the Lord by his grace day in day out.

Thanks guys. You're a blessing.