Malisa and Brian Ellis

Sharing the Gospel in Boston

We're so glad to see you at our website. Perhaps you're here looking for wedding photos? Or to hear more about our work with Campus Crusade for Christ? Or to read our recent prayer letters? Whatever the reason, thanks for stopping in.

Our Vision for Boston

Can you imagine a day when every one of the 250,000 students in Boston heard the good news of Jesus Christ in the most relevant and personal way? We can. And we think we even know how it could happen. Want to find out more?

Our Stories

My senior year of high school I was in a minor car wreck in a coffee shop parking lot. I LOVE coffee to this day. I also love to downhill ski. And a few months later, the woman who hit my car was with me at a ski weekend in Jackson Hole. On that weekend, she shared the basics of the gospel with me and it changed my life.

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If you had asked me when I graduated from College if I would become a full time missionary, I would have laughed. I attended Babson College where I studied finance and entrepreneurship, won Babson's John Muller business plan competition, won the Roger W. Babson award, and aspired to a successful career in business. I loved it. It was fun. And that's where I was headed. But after graduation, I spent a year volunteering with Campus Crusade for Christ: sharing the gospel and building into students lives. And Gods Grace has captured my heart. I saw students lives changed for all eternity across the table from me as I met them for lunch and shared with them the basics of the Christian message.

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Our Recent Prayer Letters

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  Nestor the Wrestler's New Walk with Jesus

  "I've got him beat by a hundred pounds, but I still think he could take me." That's what I was thinking when I first met Nestor, a freshman wrestler from Boston University. But he's not that tough - I mean, sure, he's got a record of 130-35, but I'm a really big guy. Yikes - let's hope we don't have to test it out.
  

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  Glow in the Dark

  I can't convey noise in a picture or with these words, but I want you to imagine this scene: you're in the middle of a football stadium. 5,000 freshmen are jostling for position as they look at all the different activities they can get involved with. And the noise. Oh the noise. The college radio station has huge speakers blaring to the right. To the left, the school marching band is performing. Chaos? How about cacophony!
  

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  Postcard from Boston

  I am reminded that there are around 50,000 students who will be coming to Boston for the first time as college freshman just like Allauki did last fall. Would you join us in praying not only that Allauki would respond to the Gospel but also that the hearts of the incoming freshman would be soft towards the message of Jesus. We are so blessed to have you partnering with us in ministry in Boston. We are overwhelmed by your prayers and partnership. We wouldn't be able to do what we do with out partners like you. Thank You so much!

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  Join us on a Prayer Walk
  

  We walk and pray on the campuses that we're working on as a way of trusting the Lord. Boston University is the largest school in the City. The campus stretches 2 miles and sits in the heart of the city of Boston. BU is home to the national champon Hockey team, thousnads of internationl students, 23 libraries, and one of the hightest tuitions in America: $49,000. As we walked through the campus, we prayed that this fall we would meet freshmen who would one day help change the world as Martin Luther King Jr, class of 1955 once did. Below are a few highlights from our prayer walk. Woud you join us in pryaing for BU's 32,000 students?
  

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  Will you be a fisher of men?
  

  Last week we were with 12 of our top students in the city of Boston. Tuesday morning started with Brian and me talking with the students about reaching their specific campus for Christ: Harvard, MIT, Boston University, Wentworth, and Bentley. We were asking the students to consider being fishers of men next fall on campus. As I finished talking about Jesus calling all of us to be fishers of men, which would mean they were living on campus with the purpose of sharing the Gospel and mentoring others, I looked up and asked, "Would you join with me in being fishers of men?"
  

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  It's Amazing How God Shows Up
  

  We're excited Jenna from Bentley is flying back to Boston next week for "The Summit," where she'll spend a week with us on an intensive summer mission project learning to share the gospel and growing in her relationship with Jesus. Jenna is from Hawaii, so it's a pretty big deal to fly back for a week of the summer. Over the course of several weeks Jenna saw God move in some pretty incredible ways to work it out for her to be part of "The Summit". As Malisa was meeting with her she asked if Jenna would write down what God had done as a way to encourage others students who were wrestling with where God was leading in their lives.
  

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  Walk in Newness of Life
  

  My alarm went off at 6 am and up I (Malisa) went into the kitchen to make breakfast for 25 students who we had invited to an overnight leadership weekend. 3 dozen eggs later and I was waking up the girls who had slept right through their alarm clock last Saturday morning. It might have had something to due with the fact that they were all up until around 2:30am. What else do college students do on Friday nights? Well, this weekend was a bit of a different one for Sadiyah.
  

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