Father in heaven there was a moment when you threw Pharaoh and his horses and chariots into the sea in order that you might get great glory

over the greatest world power.

And you've never changed,

and you mean to do the same thing today and get glory over all the principalities and powers and world rulers of this present darkness that make war against campus outreach and all of her

great designs.

And so I pray that your name, Yahui, will be lifted up in power in this conference and that in

everything we do you will get glory. And that all of the enemies of light will be put to naught.

Lord, strengthen the hands of these leaders around the world I pray, encourage their hearts,

enlarge their vision.

Reveal yourself in these days.

Do more exceedingly than they could ever dream or imagine

on every campus and many campuses yet to come.

I ask this in Jesus' name, amen.

So January 5, 2001, I was introduced face to face with campus outreach for the first time. I stood in front of

4,000 students in Atlanta at the campus outreach National Christmas Conference

and from that meeting on and that lunch

gathering that we had there on it was in my heart to bring campus outreach to Minneapolis.

And God was so good to us.

I have said publicly more than once and I'll say it again now that it may be that the most

important part of my legacy for 33 years at Bethlehem Baptist Church will be that that happened.

One of the reasons that I was so eager to see

campus outreach come to Minneapolis and to Beth for him was because I felt from the

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