My Team!

During my 1 year internship I will be on a team with 8 single students and 6 families. We are very excited about getting to serve with these families as well as share the gospel with Italians. Last summer when I was in Italy, we got to experience that the Italians loved getting to interact with believing families. Most of the Italians have never seen families with more than two children, and many have never seen a family that love each other and whose foundation is faith in the gospel.

Single Girls

Me (Jeane Carroll Brookshire)

Missy Cargo

Valerye Windham

Lucy Baird

Single Guys

Hunter Cole

Jonathan Pruhdomme

Families

Justin and Gayle Gallo

(have 2 small children not pictured)

Ryan and Christina Burrage

Jim and Angela Davis & Family

Kevin and Missy Shoemaker & Family

Justin and Abbey Valiquette

(have 4 small children not pictured)

Dylan and Chevas Grace & Family

"May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins." Colossians 1:11-14

Why Italy?

Over the next year, I will have the chance to serve with Campus Crusade for Christ in Salerno, Italy at the University of Salerno. Campus Crusade is an interdenominational Christian missions organization whose target mission field is college students in the U.S. and all over the world. Campus Crusade focuses on reaching college students because there is a tremendous competition for their mind and their hearts. How they are influenced in college will most likely affect them for the rest of their lives.

Of all places in the world, why Italy? In Italy, the assumption is that everyone is a Christian, and it would be quite unusual to find someone who has not been to church. In fact, most Italians claim to be Catholic just out of tradition. A question that we asked a lot in Italy last summer was: “What does a person need to do to enter Heaven or be ‘right’ with God?” Most of their responses were: “by being a good person” and “going to church”.

Galatians 2:16 teaches that “a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ.” Sadly, the assumption that everyone is a Christian is not true, and that the students in Italy view religion as a moral checklist, and not a personal relationship with Jesus Christ our Savior by His grace.

During my one-year internship I will be serving with a team of 5 families and 8 students. We will take initiative to share Christ with lost students on campus, follow up and disciple those who trust Christ, build relationships with them, encourage their growth in the Word, and challenge them to share their faith with others. We are seeing the Lord move in a great way in Salerno and I am so excited that the Lord has led me to be a part of it!