The first few months of the school year are a busy and strategic time for our Destino staff and students! We celebrate that many students have begun new relationships with Jesus! Here’s three stories told by Destino staff members. Lauren, University of Minnesota Veronica (above left) is a freshman at the University of Minnesota, living […]
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Last fall, Robert Lopez wanted to start a Christian club on campus. God put on his heart a desire to reach people at California State University Dominguez Hills who didn’t know about Jesus. “I prayed to the Lord two things,” said Robert. “Firstly, I prayed that the Lord use me as His instrument and that
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“I don’t even know why I’m here,” said Jane. “I don’t really like the party scene, but all my friends are here so I came.” Jane, who was about to do Jell-O shots with her high school senior friends, was being honest. Like many on spring break, she didn’t know her purpose. Destino staff members
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“We are looking for people who love Jesus and want to tell others about him.” A few weeks ago the Denver Destino team to helped launch Destino movements on two new campuses in Denver: the University of Denver (DU) and the Community College of Aurora (CCA). After spending each morning in prayer, they approached over
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In Destino, every generation of students includes those who will help take God’s Good News to the world. It’s like a giant relay race of passing on this privilege from one year to the next. This past summer we sent teams to three summer missions locations: Vail, Co., New York City, and the Mediterranean. Joaquin grew
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At the beginning of a summer mission project we always have a briefing where we talk about cultural differences and crossing cultural boundaries. I love leading this segment, because crossing cultural boundaries has taught me personally a lot about myself and my own culture. I was all prepared to lead this segment with our team–Bible
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In Genesis 16:13, Hagar calls the Lord “the God who sees me.” Basically, the story goes like this: Hagar is a slave woman for Sarai, Abraham’s wife. She becomes pregnant with Abraham’s child and is afraid of her mistress (even though having a baby by Hagar was Sarai’s idea in the first place), so she
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On our Destino Summer Mission to the Dominican Republic this year, our theme verse was Ephesians 2:10, which says “For we are Gods workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to.” We spent a lot of time unpacking just what it means to be “God’s workmanship” (or
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