Nate and Alexis Tunnell

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It was in college when God began to lead both
Alexis and I toward full-time missionary work. Even though I put my faith in Christ as a child it wasn't until college that I really began to grow in my faith. During my first year at the University of Idaho I met a guy who was on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ. The next four years, through my involvement with Campus Crusade and being mentored by a staff person, I began to develop a deeper love for God and a desire to make him known to other people.

My freshman year I was challenged to start a bible study in my fraternity and to start reaching out to the guys I lived with. Praying and then taking steps of faith I saw God do incredible things in the lives of my fraternity brothers. God used this experience in my life to grow me personally, show me the need for Christ on the college campus, and reveal to me how he wanted to use me in the lives of college students.

Alexis put her faith in Christ at a young age at a Christian sports camp in Missouri, and began to grow in her faith through her involvement in a local church in her hometown of Flagstaff, Arizona. She attended the University of Hawai'i her first two years of college where she was involved with Campus Crusade. She had the opportunity to lead two bible studies during her time in Hawai'i. Seeing God transform the lives of the girls she was leading and seeing their eyes open to the truths about God had a profound impact on her.

We were married in October 2006 during our last year of school. I finished my degree in Architecture at the University of Idaho-Boise, and Alexis finished her degree in Spanish at Boise State University. Throughout that year we asked God how he wanted us to invest our lives for him. We felt God leading us to join full-time staff with Campus Crusade for Christ to be missionaries to college students. We attended New Staff Training in Ft. Collins, CO during the summer of 2007 and were assigned to the University of Idaho. We are currently working at the University of Idaho and trusting God to move in the lives of college students there.