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Decision Point Annual Report 2022-2023

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new areas: Central California, Northeast Ohio,<br />

and Colorado. Bob Willis brings decades of<br />

international ministry experience to our team.<br />

Luke Peters served as captain for the Wheaton<br />

College basketball team and will be a dynamite<br />

leader for the growing movement in Ohio.<br />

Andi Custer, whom I’ve known since we were<br />

missionary kids together overseas, will bring<br />

a contagious love for the Lord and the lost<br />

to students in Colorado - and I believe soon<br />

throughout the Rocky Mountain region.<br />

God has also grown the impact of our Online<br />

Coaching Center. As our team had opportunities<br />

to promote the mission on a broader stage at<br />

camps, conferences, and on social media, we<br />

were able to help more students around the<br />

nation bring the gospel to their schools. Our<br />

online coaching team equipped students for<br />

campus outreach in 12 states where we do not<br />

yet have personnel.<br />

With the rest of the country before us, we continue<br />

to pray earnestly to the Lord to provide laborers<br />

for his harvest. Visit <strong>Decision</strong><strong>Point</strong>.org/join to<br />

see our staff openings. Pray with us, consider<br />

joining our growing team, and please share<br />

these opportunities with your friends.<br />

Praise God for how He has led and guided us<br />

since Warren founded this ministry 21 years<br />

ago. On a personal note, this year I completed<br />

my 20th year of service with <strong>Decision</strong> <strong>Point</strong>. It<br />

has been a privilege to serve under Warren’s<br />

godly leadership during these years. I was<br />

humbled earlier this year when he called to<br />

say that he would like to pass me the baton as<br />

CEO. Warren has made a huge impact on my<br />

life and the lives of so many around the world.<br />

He has set an amazing example of faithfulness,<br />

prayerful reliance on the Holy Spirit, and<br />

unrelenting sacrificial service for the Lord.<br />

I am grateful for his continued service with<br />

<strong>Decision</strong> <strong>Point</strong> as Founder and a member<br />

of the board.<br />

As we look at everything going on in our<br />

world today, I am reminded how lost this<br />

generation is. That’s why we’re committed to<br />

proclaiming the gospel to the next generation<br />

till every student has heard. We want to see the<br />

next generation say, “I have decided to follow<br />

Jesus.” We are praying that God will save this<br />

generation and ask that you join us in fervent<br />

prayer toward that end as well.<br />

As we help students lead for Jesus in an<br />

increasingly hostile world, we are helping<br />

them count the cost on the front lines and<br />

be resolved to lead. God has called us to<br />

strengthen a remnant of young leaders who<br />

are ready to stand for Christ, live for Christ,<br />

witness for Christ, and endure hardship for<br />

His name because He is worth it.<br />

And students are doing just that.<br />

Students are standing for Christ, even when<br />

it means standing alone. Eli is a young man in<br />

the San Francisco area. Eli came to a <strong>Decision</strong><br />

<strong>Point</strong> event earlier this year where he decided to<br />

recommit his life to Christ and reach his school<br />

for Christ. He had to put up with students<br />

tearing down his posters, a club advisor who<br />

was unsupportive of his mission, and hostility<br />

from other teachers. “One time,” Eli said, “we<br />

were passing gospel booklets and a teacher<br />

asked me what we were giving out. I gave her<br />

a copy of the booklet and she started yelling<br />

at me…I found out she even reported me to the<br />

Vice Principal.” But Eli stood strong through it<br />

all. The Lord rewarded his effort and he saw<br />

170 students attend his outreach this May and<br />

many of his peers decide to follow Jesus!<br />

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