Bonjour mon cheri, een thees month of amore, moi has decided that vous lucky people weel get a taste of amore from zee captain of love - pepe'... While I must tell you what ees happinnin een thees house of stand, I am sure you really want to hear also what ees about een the casbah of love, no?

I thought so...

Laissez le bon temps roulez!

Thees month, we welcome someone new eento the ranks of leadership of stand318, someone bright, charming, and lovable... but enough about moi. We also welcome new leadership into our local branch of stand318, headed by our new president - Candice Howard. Candice introduces herself een thees newsletter here. rrooowwwrrrr... Stephen Blackmon ees our new vice-president, he ees also seengle and available. Zee lovely Courtney Vick, she ees our secretary. A few others have ascended eento offices that weel be mentioned after we talk more about moi.

Present stand318 leadership ees now part of our "executive counsel", as we begin to branch out nationally eento chapters on other campuses een different states. We will have more eenformation on zee new stand318 branches coming to your favorite campus as they develop. Eef you are wanting STAND to be a part of your campus, (and who doesn't, eh?), please call our voice mail and we weel deescuss thees tings with you.

Een talking about expansion, thees month we bring you zee first fruits. Victoria Aleman, (tres rrooowwwrrrr...) author of zee link's newest column, Victoria's (not so) Secret, (moi absolutely *loves* zee title), weel share with you lovely readers what ees happening a leetle west of here, een the heart of Houston.

I am playing it too cool, no? Moi pepe` feeels a love song coming on…

"Pew made me love you

I deedn't want to do eet.

I deedn't want to do eet.

When you said, "Le mew,"

I just could not eegnore eet.

I had to tres amour eet.

I "nose" you made me love you."

Ummm... ok. Eenuf about moi again... Beginning thees month, stand318 weel be joining with Release and other area ministries for prayer on Tuesday nights @ 9pm (check zee calendar on pages 4 & 5). Along weeth our "Prayer Force" on zee 3rd Thursday night of each month, stand318 is going back to the basics in our quest to strengthen us spiritually as we seek to minister to the nation's campuses een zee coming years. Join moi een zee casbah of prayer for Lamar thees month.

Also, moi must mention zee changing of zee link to a quarterly publication as we step- up to magazine status. To receive the latest information about wassappinnin, don't forget to sign-up for our email version of zee link's newsletter on the website. We fill you in on the latest and greatest, (I really must stop talking about moi), and share your events for your ministry.

As most of you know, Passion Texas was held in Austin thees past January. Moi and the rest of our flock of angels attending had a *great* time. You weel not want to miss OneDay.

As moi closes thees issue of zee wassappinnin, moi would like to remind you to visit our website where I have posted zee first in a series of poetry in "Praise Joint"... ees remarkable, no?

Viva l’amour, I pierce you with the "ack ack" of love, flower pot.

Cherie, Je t'amie...