Project Destiny Prayer Letter

Dear Friends,

I’ve got some exciting summer plans that I’d like to share with you! This summer, I’ll be helping to run a church based day-camp for middle school students who live in the Chinatown area of Boston. I’ll be trying to reach out to kids in the neighborhood where I now live by hanging out, playing basketball, teaching a guitar class, leading morning chapel activities, and taking them on field trips around the state. I’ll also, along with the camp planning team, care for a team of volunteers who are giving up their summer to live together in Chinatown and be a part of this neighborhood outreach.

The name of this camp is Project Destiny—so named because we believe that God will use the summer to impact the eternal destiny of our students. The camp exists to meet a need in the community that neighbors can perceive—the need for summer youth programming—while addressing a need that they don’t yet perceive—the good news of the Gospel. I first became involved with this ministry in 1997, and since then, I’ve often returned during my summers. Over the years, God has developed in me a heart for urban youth, especially in Boston and Chinatown. Beginning last February, I joined a small team of like-minded Christians, who want to see the love of Christ extended to this community, and we started planning year-round for the summer camp.

This year, we feel that an area of need that is not addressed in the community is education in music, arts, and technology. We’ve made some changes to our academic program and what results is a curriculum that offers classes in creative disciplines at an incredible low cost to students’ families. My contribution to this will be teaching a guitar class that covers the basics of general music education as well. I’m pleased and excited that we are able to bring this opportunity to a low-income area of the city.

From my years of partnership with Project Destiny, I know that God uses it to change lives. Because we share the gospel every morning and present it in a relevant way, as well as living it out every day, every student comes to understand what the Gospel. Many students come into the camp and end up coming back to our church’s regular youth groups. Some former students that I now consider friends gave their lives to the Lord during camp and now, as college students, are returning as camp counselors to share the Gospel with other community kids. We know this is only possible because of the Lord working on our side.

Would you consider partnering with my work in Project Destiny this summer? In order for the camp to really change lives and impact this neighborhood, we’ve got to be aligned with God’s plans and desires. We need a lot of wisdom and sensitivity to what the Holy Spirit is doing. For this reason, I invite you to partner with me through prayer.

Also, I invite you to partner with me financially. As I mentioned before, we want to offer these great arts and technology opportunities to families at a fraction of the cost of running the programs. Each student pays $200 or less for the entire summer. My guitar class, alone, will cost almost $2,000 in materials, like guitars for students to practice on. Aside from that, we need to fund field trips and other activities that make this camp valuable to people in the community. Volunteer counselors, who are living full time in the community, will also require food and other living expenses. It is a great opportunity for me to practice faith that God will provide—and I know he will. Would you consider contributing financially to help me meet a fiscal goal of $1205?

I’m so excited for this summer to start. I can’t help it when I think of how the Lord will be changing the destinies of campers and expanding the vision of counselors. Would you partner with me in prayer and finances? I look forward to hearing from you.

God Bless,
Steve Liu

Here are just a few areas that I could use prayer in for this summer:

• Project Destiny is an intense ministry that calls for long hours of service—60-80 hours a week. Pray that I will not be tired of serving and that I can look to the Lord for sustenance.

• Pray that I would have the wisdom and discernment to know how to care for a team and to lead them as we serve together.

• Pray for the unity of our staff as we bond to become a team

• Please pray also for our students, that the Holy Spirit would work in their hearts and penetrate their lives with the Gospel.

If you would like to make an eternally significant contribution to Project Destiny, send checks to

Steve Liu
5E Oak Street
Boston, MA 02111

Please make checks out to BCEC—Project Destiny with Steve Liu written on the memo line. To ensure that your contributions are tax deductible, federal regulations require that the church reserve the discretion to apply your contributions to other church ministries when necessary.

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Between Dorchester Youth Group, Chinatown Youth Group, Project Destiny, Josiah Quincy Upper School, and anything else in between, I've realized that I should have a place to update my friends and family about everything going on in my ministry life. God has blessed me with many opportunities to serve him and I should faithfully share these joys with other like-minded people. So from this point on, Ministry in Boston will be a record of God's faithfulness through all the struggles and victories of my urban ministries.