Life looks a little different than it did when you first joined my team! Let’s get caught up!

I graduated from Radiant School of Ministry and joined staff for a year. I felt the Lord asking me to step down. It was a very bittersweet decision and trusted God on what He had for me next!

 My fiancé Casey and I joined Mike and Leah Ureche for a training to reach Michigan State University. Now we know this is where we should be! They have spent the last few years planting grassroots missional movements among college students. They are the directors and founders of Cultivate Network! We felt peace to be under their organization until God tells us otherwise. 

 Cultivate Network is a church planting community that plants simple churches in and around college towns and mobilizes laborers to and through the campus. What makes them distinct is that they aren’t just a ministry for college students, they are a missions community for college students to do ministry. (Eph. 4:12) They have a dream to see what happens in their home which will spread to more of the city, region, new campuses, and the world.

 Jesus told His followers, “Lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.” (John 4:35)

 We implore you, envision with us.  What would it look if waves of equipped students flooded our cities? What if international students were not just welcomed in, but sent back home to plant churches and continue the Kingdom work? God is sending the nations here. The average university has over 100+ people groups from the nations on its campus. 80% of them have never been invited into an American home. We want to change that because they are right in our backyard.

Casey and I have felt a burden for reaching and equipping international students, and we have been praying for someone to partner with that has the same vision. Our prayers have been answered with Cultivate Network!

 Our role is to focus on international students on MSU and WMU (any maybe more… stay tuned). Our dream is to love international students as Jesus would and equip them to see revival in their home countries. Which means expository Bible studies, inviting them to have dinner with us, and teaching them the foundations of starting house churches in their home countries.

 Our other role is still taking short term trips to see the great commission fulfilled. We want to be doing the work and seeing how pastors in the nations church plant, so that we can set our international friends set up for success once they are sent back to their home countries.

There’s an ancient cry rumbling and an old movement awakening. It’s a movement bigger than any of us and one that will take all of us to complete.

 So we invite you. Join us and the Cultivate Network to see revival in the nations.

Casey & Jaden