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Jon & Jenn Mike & Caryn Dan & Heather Amanda & Gabe

Our team: Ayers Bazemore Litchfield McGann (raising support)

The outdoor & experiential learning ministry of

Campus Crusade for Christ.

Mike & Caryn

Bazemore Helping students

to grow in relationship with God, each other, &

in character & leadership.

contact 355 Ethan Allen Pkwy #1

Burlington VT 05408 (407) 574-5958

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Please pray with us... • For Christian students that can be trained to reach their

peers thru the outdoors.

• For stamina as we experience out first semester on an American college campus since graduating from college ourselves!

• For a new community of friends to share life with and mutual encouragement.

Give thanks with us... • A safe move from Orlando, FL to Burlington, VT!

• God’s provision for us in every way imaginable and in ways only He is aware of.

• Many students interested in our trips & ministry. • A full schedule of trips and activities for students… Please be praying for our busy calendar (on back)!

Dear Friends & Family, We apologize for the delay since our last update. Thank you to all who have been praying for our transition. Our last letter left off with us getting ready to leave our home in Florida for a new home and ministry in Vermont. We made it! Here are some highlights from our summer:

LATE JUNE:

• We finished packing, thanks to great help from many friends.

• Mike and his brother, Matt, drove the moving truck up the east coast in 2 ½ days!

JULY

• Caryn & Hudson flew up with her mom (who helped us pack AND unpack!) a few days later.

• Unpacking, some basic training, and getting to know Burlington, VT & our new team.

• Travel to Colorado for the Campus Crusade bien-

nial staff conference. There where heard from Tim Keller (among others), who called us to remember & share the great Hope God is calling us to, not only the hopelessness from which He called us.

• Support-raising time in Ohio AUGUST

• Return to VT to finish unpacking our boxes and setting up the house

• Two weeks of planning & training for the upcoming school year. We feel like we have been drinking

from a fire hose!

• Students arrive & we begin our new ministry!

We are really excited as the school year begins. Our Lifelines team had a table at the Freshman orientation picnic, where almost 170 students expressed an interest in joining us on an outdoor adventure. We call these outings ‘programs’ because each trip has a purpose—whether it is to teach students how to bond or about a specific virtue—and through these programs they experience Christ, as the principles we teach are from God’s Word. Already, we are very impressed with the effectiveness of this approach to attract stu-dents, especially those who have yet to have their own relationship with Christ…and they come back! A non-Christian student shared at our student informational meeting that she is a part of Lifelines because she knows she is loved in our group… she expressed to incoming freshman that through our women’s ‘life group’, she’s learned the Bible really is applicable to our lives. This was great to hear from a student who has not yet made a commitment to follow Christ.

As spiritual guides, we are pointing students toward the Creator, and we are very encouraged that even unbelievers are willing to be guided by God through us, hopefully toward a personal relationship with Him. As our director likes to say: The biggest difference between two people is not where they are, but where they are headed…direction is key!

Thanks for your faithfulness!

Mike & Caryn Bazemore P.S. In all of this, Hudson (now TWO!) has done really well adjusting…he loves our new neighbors and their cats, as well as trips to Lake Champlain (see picture left). Our new home is across the street from an elementary school with lots of play equipment so he—and his parents—get lots of exercise.

In the moving truck with all our earthly belongings.

Caryn practices her knots for climbing

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

SEPTEMBER 6

7 8

1:30pm Staff meeting 7pm WOMEN’S Life group

9

9am Individual Prayer time with God 10am UVM Activities Fair 7pm MEN's Life group

10

1pm Caryn meets with Trainer

11 9am Team training 3:30pm Lifelines Mtg (Student & Staff) 6pm Fellowship/Social time with students

12 12pm Hosting UNH Int’l students 1pm Canoe upper Lamoille River

13 9am Hike Camel's Hump 1pm Kayak the islands

14 15

1:30pm Staff meeting 7pm Women’s Life group

16 9am Individual Prayer time with God 7pm MEN's Life group

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19 8am Rafting the Hudson 10am Hike Hunger Mtn.

20 1pm - Rock climbing

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24


25 9am Team training 3:30pm Lifelines Mtg (Student & Staff) Fall Retreat with students

26

Fall Retreat with students

27 Fall Retreat with students

28 29



OCTOBER 1



3 1pm Bouldering & Trash Pickup

4 5 6



8


9 9am Team training 3:30pm Lifelines Mtg (Student & Staff) 3pm Canoe Overnight in the Adirondacks

10

3pm Canoe Overnight in the Adirondacks

11 12 13


14 9am Individual Prayer time with God 7pm MEN's Life group World Awareness Days

15

1pm Caryn meets with Trainer World Awareness Days


17 8am - Hike Mt. Ellen 9am - Canoe trip

18 19 20



22



24 8am - Hiking Killington

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26 27



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31 11am - Rock climbing

LIFELINES VT September/October Prayer Calendar

KEY

• ACTIVITIES/MTGS WITH STUDENTS (ONGOING)

•STAFF-ONLY

ACTIVITIES/MTGS (ONGOING)

•SPECIAL EVENTS

•LIFELINES PROGRAMS WITH STUDENT GROUPS

Please pray also for individual

appointments with students all week!

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