\u201cDuring the last 17 years we have worked with countless students who have been reached, equipped, and launched from the campus, with varied vocational callings, to live as fruitful insiders among the lost,\u201d Jessica says.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Ordinary young people, put to glorious use by an extraordinary God.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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\r\n\u201cIn many ways, these \u2018sent ones\u2019 appear like many of their peers,\u201d John says. \u201cThey work hard at their jobs, serve at church and in civic organizations, live in neighborhoods or apartments, and get married and have families. Yet in other ways they are living extraordinary lives of Spirit-empowered influence for the Kingdom.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
*Jeff and *Susan are just one couple to whom the Paytons have passed on their faith through Life-to-Life\u00ae<\/sup> discipleship<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u201cJeff works for Boeing in St. Louis, and Susan delayed career advancement to invest deeply in immigrant families in partnership with their church,\u201d Jessica says. \u201cThey are studying a foreign language and purchased a home in a neighborhood with many immigrants who also speak this language in order to be a light in their community. On the lookout for spiritually hungry people, they are developing friendships with Jeff\u2019s coworkers, and Susan recently began discipling a student volunteer.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Another former student, Phil, an Iowa State (ISU) Navigators engineering grad, met aspiring young missionary Olivia several years ago.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u201cToday they are growing a new marriage overseas while working with a locally-led Christian community development organization that trains and empowers impoverished communities,\u201d John says. \u201cPhil engages his vocational training while also supporting their local discipleship initiative.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Preston and Shelby, ISU alums, settled in the Washington, D.C. area, where Preston works in engineering.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n