Prom Gone Wrong
“Our aim was to throw a really fun party…as we celebrated good things about prom and poked fun at some of its tired traditions”
At #conferencewin, we spent time brainstorming themes. We had 1 minute to think of 3 different themes. One of our themes was Prom Gone Wrong. Something struck us about that theme, as we talked more we realized we had a wide range of experiences of formals and proms. Almost immediately we began to think of ways to throw a party called “Prom Gone Wrong”. Our aim was to throw a really fun party, with good food, games and merriment as we celebrated good things about prom and poked fun at some of its tired traditions.
We decided we would try this as our first outreach event. As we planned for this event, we thought about food, music, games and prizes. We also hired an RIVCF alumnus, Ainsley to set up a Prom Photo booth. We also offered to take interested students out shopping at local thrift stores to find their perfect prom outfit.
We encountered a few setbacks: too much food and too ambitious a meal that we set out to prepare ourselves took us out of some of the intentional inviting process; the room booked wasn’t entirely conducive to our vision for the party; and perhaps the most surprising setback was that the Ryerson Student Union had paired up with a course union and threw a Prom party on the same night as our event! But, despite the setbacks, we had a great time! Friends who hadn’t previously come to an IV event came and had a great time!
One of my highlights was when Serena* and her boyfriend came to our event. Serena is one of my childhood best friends, she is not a Christian nor is she a student at Ryerson; however, her boyfriend worked for the Oakham House (where the majority of our meetings and events are held). I ran into her boyfriend one day when I was on campus and invited him to come to our event, he said he had to work, but mentioned Serena might be available**. I asked Serena if she’d be interested in coming, and she was! She came and had a great time. And though her boyfriend was working he kept coming by and checking in on her and our event; suffice it to say, we received the best service from the Oakham House staff that evening! It was such an unexpected blessing to share my work with this good friend, and also to build connections with the staff of the Oakham House; two things I had really been praying for!
Another added blessing was that a couple of my intern housemates came, and were a great help in welcoming people and inviting them to participate in our activities for the evening!
We learned so much in the process of putting on this event. Though in some regards it didn’t go as planned, we were blessed and surprised abundantly throughout the all aspects of planning and putting on this event. Following the event, we had some time to debrief as a team; and also have some great follow-up conversations with our friends who came to the event.
*name changed
** A little sidenote: Serena and I had a wee falling out in high school when I first became a Christian. Since then, we have reconnected, and she’s asked questions but on the whole, she is baffled by my work with IV.
Vision for the Year: Join the Party
“…we have put on events that are fun and accessible to people wherever they are in their faith journey”
Our vision for the year was inspired by a talk given at #conferencewin. My students were struck by the words and imagery that our campuses are filled with people that are alive but spiritually dead. As they thought of their friends and classmates, they felt compelled to be more missional.
During our time visioning in June, we took account of the people who were not in the room, and accounted for ways we have not welcomed people well and brainstormed ways to be more invitational to these groups of people. As we reflected on this brainstorming at #conferencewin, we realized we wanted to be known as a fellowship that has joy and is invitational. One that is bold in their faith, and spends time studying and applying God’s Word, but also gathers people together and has great fellowship. We don’t aim to downplay the costliness of following Jesus, and put forth a misaligned understanding of the gospel; but we noticed our previous trend was to over-emphasize the costliness and suffering for the gospel and downplay the joy of life as God’s people in His Kingdom.
As part of this vision, we have put on events that are fun and accessible to people wherever they are in their faith journey. Our aim is that these events will help people gradually gain awareness of our fellowship and eventually help bridge them to some of our other weekly ministries.
We advertise for these events by making buttons with a logo we created at #conferencewin. We have used this logo on all our posters and flyers for events. We are now seeing people recognize our logo and that our fellowship has more campus-wide recognition than in previous years!
#conferencewin
The anticipation was heavy in the air. The wait seemed endless. As they watched the countdown before the light turned green, they readied themselves for the big moment. Finally, the light turned green…
Imagine this: A group of 140 people consisting of staff and students from across Ontario, assembled in chevron formations at opposite corners of the Spadina and Bloor intersection on a Friday evening in late August, who once signalled, burst into a hokey-pokey flash mob and stop and disperse when the streetlight turns red.
This is how we kicked off #conferencewin. What is #conferencewin? It is a conference that serves to teach and practice innovation and creativity in our New Student Outreach to staff and students of Inter-Varsity fellowships across Ontario.
In addition to the hokey-pokey flash mob, students participated in a poetry slam and received teaching on innovation and outreach and had time to brainstorm new ideas for an outreach event to kick off the year. They also had the opportunity to present their ideas to the group gathered and a select few were able to then present their ideas and ask for funding from a special grouping of guests in our version of “Dragon’s Den”.
All of my student leaders were able to attend, and from their time at #conferencewin they came up with their vision of the year: Join the [King’s] Party; and also planned our first outreach event “Prom Gone Wrong”.
As we finish up this semester, we are still able to see the fruits from some of these events and their impact on our movement across Ontario.
Summer Visioning with students
“What followed was an explosion of creative ministry ideas…”
Following City/Script, my student leaders were excited to be begin visioning for the upcoming school year and explore creative ministries ideas.
During the last weekend of June, we debriefed the year and began to prayerfully make plans for the upcoming year. We studied the building of the tabernacle passage of Exodus 35, and asked God to show us how and where to use the gifts He had given us.
What followed was an explosion of creative ministry ideas, as we discovered using our passions as a way to engage in ministry.
- Jenna: running ministry, to offer a place to worship God while honouring and taking care of the bodies He has blessed us with!
- Elizabeth: movie ministry, to offer a place to use popular culture as a way to engage non-Christian friends in spiritual discussions!
- Bethany: Worship, to lead and serve the community in a ministry that has needed new vision and life for the past years!
- Lauren: Cooking Classes, to serve as places where her friends from her program could meet her friends from her faith community and discuss spiritual things while cooking!
God convicted us of the places where He wanted us to be more invitational to the people He was calling on campus. So we set forth to study a gospel to get people in Scripture and interacting and discovering the fullness of Jesus; and what His life and ministry mean and model for us. We chose to spend time this fall studying the Gospel of John in a manuscript study on Thursday evenings.
We also realized that as we engage in a lot of new forms of ministry, that we really needed to set aside time to pray with God, and see what He is inviting us into on campus.
As we took account for the ways our fellowship had not pursued students in the past, we began to brainstorm ways to reach new students. One of the ideas we had for orientation week and the first week of school was to provide a map for students of the campus and the surrounding areas, noting the places to eat, make copies and buy supplies and find entertainment. We would also point out on the map where our fellowship gathers and offer the map to students free of charge.
City/Script
“…it was one of the most moving moments of my staff life.”
Every May, the Inter-Varsity fellowships from across Ontario come together to intensively study scripture of Mark’s Gospel or Genesis for one week. This year marked the 7th anniversary and was my third year attending the conference.
Up until this year, city/script was one of those conferences that Inter-Varsity as an organization was excited about, but not one I was excited about. I thought it was great, but found myself much more excited by other ministries and conferences of Inter-Varsity. That changed this year.
This year, we were amazed as God doubled our enrollment for the conference! Last year we had just over 120 people, and 3 Mark 1 studies, 1 Mark 2 study and 1 Genesis study. This year we had 5 Mark 1 studies, 2 Mark 2 studies and 1 Genesis study and had 188 people enroll!
My staff role at this conference was to find ways for the students to creatively process what God was doing in their hearts and lives that week. I partnered with my friend, Dave, who is Campus Staff at OCAD University. Together we visioned for and set up a studio space with 6 stations and various mediums for students to creatively express how God was speaking to them through the Scriptures they were studying. We also organized a coffeehouse, in order for students to share stories and display the artwork that was created, that happened toward the end of the week. I loved this role! I’m sure I would have loved teaching scripture but I loved using my creative gifts for this ministry.
But the one thing that made me rethink how I felt about this conference happened when a student in my Mark study decided to accept Jesus as his Saviour. This student was part of a group of students from the University of Ottawa. He came as a non-Christian and left on fire for God! Throughout the week he would ask a lot of thought provoking questions that made the long-term Christians really come to terms with what they believed. His skepticism could be easily perceived by anyone in the room. Then, after a gospel meditation, something shifted for this student. Something HUGE. He left the room, then came back visibly shaken, and then shared what had happened, and how he had just gone outside and asked God if He was real. This student then confessed that he was terrified about how God would answer. What followed next was one of the most moving moments of my staff life, as this student shared what was happening for him, I watched as students from his campus who were dispersed around the room all began praying for him. Then, students from my campus and others who had just met this student 4 days prior, began to envelop him in hugs and prayers. The emotions were high in the room, as people surrounded this student. Soon as communal prayer time started, and the room began to pray for each other and for this student. We then took a break, and Dan our study leader (and Campus Staff and housemate of the above mentioned student) asked the staff in his study what to do next; to push forward in the text or spend time in prayer in our campus groups. We opted for the prayer time. When I ran into Dan later that night, and asked what happened during their prayer time, he shared that this student accepted Jesus as his Saviour! This happened mid-week, so for the rest of the study we got to see this student transformed as God’s fire burned bright in him! This student shared his testimony during the coffeehouse, and a clip of it can be seen here.
Seeing this student’s transformation not only moved me, but my students as well, and created in them a desire to be a community where stories like this happen, and to be the kind of community that welcomed this student into God’s family.
A Semester in Review
Before I launch into some of the amazing things that have happened this summer and fall, I want to share a few highlights from earlier this year.
The Ryerson Tree:
“If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.” – Romans 11:17-21
On March 5th, GTA Ministry Director and my supervisor, Jamie came to teach scripture at Ryerson. She taught from Romans 9-11 and focused her teaching on the grafting of new branches. As part of the application of this text, I made a tree with many branches and the students made leaves and wrote words to describe themselves. Some leaves were adorned with broad words like “nerd” and “mature student”; others were more descriptive denoting programs and ethnic identities. Once the students finished their leaves they took turns pasting them onto the tree. Once everyone put their leaves on the tree; we took some time to look at the tree and see how we were represented. We then, started noting what was not represented on our tree; students noted specific students that hadn’t been around for a few weeks; as well as programs of study like “nursing” and “engineering” and then groups of people like “international students”, and “LGBTQ”. We began to write these people down on the blank spaces on our tree and began to pray for ways we could begin to reach out to these people.
The follow week, Ainsley, a Ryerson Inter-Varsity alumna, came to teach scripture. She taught from Romans 12-13; and focused her teaching on Spiritual Giftings. As part of the application of the text, we spent some time doing a Spiritual Gifts test. Ainsley made leaves of each of the spiritual gifts and asked us to write our names down on our top two spiritual gifts; and then attach them to the tree. We took some time to look at the tree after everyone had placed their leaves on it; and see the gifts that we bring to the community and how these gifts can help us reach those who were not yet part of the community.
Tell Me A Story:
What happens when you ask University students to take a break from studying and tell you a story? You find yourself with a community board game.
One thing the students of the Ryerson Inter-Varsity group love is playing games. So we took something our community loves and decided to invite students, staff and visitors to the campus to help us create a board game by telling us a story in words or pictures. We took their online and in person submissions and used them to create game cards. Once the game was completed, we invited people to come and play the game with us and made copies of the game to be sold to fundraise for student scholarships for Inter-Varsity’s regional spring and summer conferences.
Moses, one of my graduating New Media students, clocked more than 50 hours on this series of events by creating all of the web and print promotional materials; postering around the campus and taking risks inviting friends from his program to participate in the events! Moe had this to say, “I enjoyed the creative exploration and experimentation involved when working on the print and web design for Tell Me A Story. The time we had creating surrealist artwork with the Ryerson campus was fun and helped me grasp a deeper understanding of IVCF’s passion for community building. I loved playing the game and seeing all the beautiful artwork that had been made.” (Check out Moe’s website here.)
We still have some copies of the game left, so if you are interested in learning more, please click here.
Year End Banquet
We feasted on a variety of homemade and store bought treats and said good bye to some of our Extraordinary Kingdom Leaders at our Year End Banquet. One of the unexpected highlights was when we invited people to share their answers to the questions: How did you find Inter-Varsity and what caused you to stay? Each person in the room shared their story, even the alumni and special guests, the room was filled with God’s wonder!
Cooking at York
This year, all of the members of the GTA regional staff team have been sharing our ethnic and cultural histories (more about my story can be found on my other blog). This has involved us sharing our ethnic background, as well as significant interactions with other cultures that have shaped our identity and ministry; and sharing a creative expression of our stories such as poems, songs or cultural dishes.
Inspired by the cultural dishes that were made, and by a desire to offer a service to his students while exposing them to new cultures; Dan, Campus Staff at York University began hosting bi-weekly community dinners with his York KCF fellowship. During these dinners, a guest chef would come and students would learn how to cook different meals, as well as have meals from a variety of different cultures.
I loved this idea not only because I love cooking, but I loved the idea of getting to spend time partnering with Dan and his ministry at York! I offered to cook a traditional South Asian meal of Briyani on March 7th. On the day of the meal, I headed over Dan’s house with two of my students, and began preparations for the meal. By the time York students arrived, most of the meal had been prepared by my students; but it left plenty of time of fellowship.
The timing of this dinner was shortly after our Kingdom People events; so many of the York students at this dinner had already met my students, and they were able to continue conversations started at Kingdom People.
I wasn’t sure what to expect going into this dinner. I knew that I’d be cooking a meal and hanging out with Dan and his students; but it was added bonus when a few of my students accompanied me. Conversations flowed easy and smooth while we ate the meal. I might have made it a bit “too” spicy, and there was a lot of people passing the yogurt to cool the meal. As Brian, one of my students said, “You raised the bar on spiciness”. Despite the spiciness of the meal, the students eagerly ate. Dessert was Chocolate Banana Bread made by Joy, Dan’s wife, which people thoroughly enjoyed and helped cut the spice in their mouths!
After the meal, the students lingered, and continued to have conversations until about 10 pm! It was a really enjoyable evening spending time with Dan’s students and having an opportunity for them to spend time in fellowship with some of my students.
Kingdom People
In January, rather than planning our own separate winter retreats, the GTA regional staff team and students from various campuses got together for three consecutive weeks of teaching and training. We called these events, Kingdom People, as we wanted to follow up on some of the teaching from the winter conference, Kingdom Calling.
We wanted to call the students towards living a life of the Kingdom, by offering stories and teachings about right relationship with God, others, and themselves. Each week, different staff amongst the team lead us through scripture study and interactive application. For more stories and photos of the events, click here.
My involvement with the events varied each week. On the first week, I lead the students through an interactive sensory experience; depicting the garden and the fall in Genesis. I also lead the students in an activity where they were to create a groundling, and continue to interact with their creation throughout the course of the evening. The second week, I helped create personalised invitations for the students, as part of their application of the teaching and invitations they had received throughout the course of the evening. The final week, our household created a meal as part of the potluck dinner served that evening.
I really enjoyed these events and interacting with students from various different campuses. It was exciting to meet them and see how they were processing through the teachings and invitations extended throughout the weeks of teaching. It was also exciting to see the students interact with one another and begin to dream up ways to continue relationship and support one another’s ministries!
As the weeks and months went by, these events served as a marker for many students of significant change and the beginnings of inter-campus relationships and partnerships.
Christmas Celebrations
We’ve reached the end of the semester! Students are now finished exams and those from out of town are heading home to their families and finishing their Christmas shopping!
I’d love to share with you a conversation I had with Vanessa about how the semester has been for her:
A: How has it been being president this year:
V: Well, it doesn’t feel that different than being a general exec member, we’ve all really worked well together the four of us. In community meetings and exec meetings I have an overall picture of what we’re doing, and making sure we cover what we need, it’s a bit of an extra responsibility but it’s been a really interesting experience. Exec meetings and planning have gone really well. The biggest difference is in the large group meeting where I am opening and closing meetings and directing the group more than just participating and more aware of how each individual is responding and engaging to the study or how certain people are reacting to different things; often I feel like a third party viewer and feel a little bit at a distance at times, but at the same time it’s been amazing to see the things I have gotten out of the studies as well.
A: What has been your favourite thing so far this year for this semester:
V: It’s been interesting getting to know people, especially since the group is lots of new people, even the “regulars” are people that first started coming to the group occasionally last year. It’s been exciting not knowing what to expect each week, and we are getting more into a groove with things. It’s great doing study, as many are experiencing manuscript for the first time and are enjoying it. It’s been interesting doing the social events and having a chance to relax and get to know people, it’s less like hanging out with old friends but more about getting to know them and getting closer to them, and getting close in a way I wouldn’t be outside a group like this.
A: What has been the coolest thing that God has done this semester:
V: It’s been cool to see how application of passages has hit personal things for me. I was worried that being part of the planning and exec team would kill the life and connection with God that the group has been offering me. There have been times when I have come to meetings really tired and God has consistently met me and by the end of our time together I am so excited by the stuff we’re talking about and don’t even notice how long we’ve been talking – a complete 180 to how I entered in. So it’s been really exciting despite having a busy semester and a very different responsibility and relationship with the group this year. He’s met me in that journey and brought great excitement in what I’m doing.
A: Tell me about the Banquet Vision, as it looks very different to how it’s been done in the past. How did the brainstorming happen, how did you feel as you were putting it together:
V: Initially, we were planning a typical potluck, and share what we experienced this semester. But then we began thinking of different ways we could fundraise, not for a particular event, but it would be nice to have something extra for different events we plan, and also the school is more willing to give us grants and funding if we make some efforts to raise funds on our own. And we wanted to start thinking early about fundraising for city/script as that’s something that is a consistent event we attend, but the cost of it is hard for some students. And we can’t plan to do that a few weeks before the conference, we need to start thinking sooner; so we started to think of ideas to do as a fundraiser, and thought of a bake sale or a raffle, and we wanted to do this with some sort of larger point, so we thought of combining it with our Christmas banquet. Initially we were planning to do this all in one day, but then thought to break it up so people could enjoy the bake sale and buy the raffle ahead of time. We figured we’d reach more people and invite more people. It was really interesting to see how it evolved after that. It was a nice break after being really busy and having an intense study, and it was a good idea to invite people to come celebrate the end of the term with us. We were really excited that while everybody else needed to be careful and politically correct about holiday celebrations, we were able to say we are a Christian group and we are going to have a Christmas party, and we can say that and we can do that; it was a little cheesy and contrived in some ways, but mostly it was a lot of fun; we had our own little mini holiday.
A: How did people use their skills and talents:
V: The exec did the brainstorming. Moses designed the poster. Vanessa did some baking. Brian was the representative to the Ryerson Student Union, he organized booking the spaces and logistics of getting a table and the other audio/visual equipment we needed. We had a sign up sheet for members of community to help; some signed up to cook or bake or help staff the table. Jenna brought lots of decorations for the table, as we wanted to dress it up a little.
A: What are you most excited for second semester:
V: I am hoping the core group that has been established continues to come out to fellowship meetings and bible studies. I hope to plan a retreat for the reading week, maybe for one or a couple days. I am really excited about city/script, and given extra fundraising would love if we had a good group of people attend. I’m trying not too focused about end of year, because I am very excited about what will happen up until that point too.
A: Tell me more about the talks of a joint event with OCAD and U of T:
V: We had a joint thanksgiving dinner with the fellowships at University of Toronto St. George and the Ontario College of Art and Design; the students from our fellowship who attended had good things to say. Since then, we’ve talked about doing something or joint events in second term. We figured a good way to do that would be to fundraise for city/script together, as its less about taking away from what each individual campus is doing and is appropriate to get to know the people you will be seeing and studying scripture together during city/script that you wouldn’t normally be spending a lot of time with, and since it’s a larger event, it might be helpful to have more minds working together to pull together a larger fundraising event. We haven’t gotten anything in particular yet, but that is the hope.
Poster designed by Moses for the Ryerson IVCF Christmas Banquet.
Merry Christmas! Please remember the students in prayer as they are resting from a busy semester and celebrating the birth of our Saviour.
Stories from Campus
This semester has been a semester full of firsts!
For many of the Ryerson Exec Leaders, it is their first time in leadership. For the students that regularly attend the group, it is their first year being part of the group. In addition to things being very new for both the leaders and members of the group, there has been new vision and energy for how the group operates and ministers to the larger campus community.
This summer, I met with the Ryerson Exec Leaders to vision for the fall semester. We spent some time in Scripture in Exodus 33-35. The leaders were especially excited about using their various skills and talents in ministry this year. This semester the ministry at Ryerson has been greatly blessed by the skills and talents of the student leadership team.
Some highlights include:
- Vanessa, used skills from her program (Fashion Design) to design and create Inter-Varsity T-shirts for the exec members to wear during the first week of school (photo above).
- Moses, used skills from his program (New Media) to redesign the Ryerson IVCF website and create various posters and flyers for events.
- Jenna, used her amazing interpersonal skills to communicate about events to the group and welcome people into the group at meetings and various outreach events.
- Brian, used his great gifts of administration to organize and communicate with the Ryerson Student Union to book rooms and equipment needed for various meetings and events.
Praise God! For these skills and talents He has blessed these students with and also for the ways He is using them for His Kingdom!
My role with the group looked a little different this semester, as I was made aware of a dire funding situation late this summer, and needed to step off campus to raise my support to a more sustainable level, and my contact with the students was limited. However, I spent some time with Vanessa, the Ryerson Inter-Varsity Executive Team President, who shared these stories:
A: How did you feel making the shirts:
V: I very much enjoyed making the shirts. It was a fun, quick project that people got excited about. Everybody wanted to take pictures of the shirts. It was interesting because I prior to that hadn’t really thought of a way of using my fashion creativity for Inter-Varsity, so it was kinda cool to do that.
A: How did people respond? How did the exec like the shirts? How did people on the campus respond:
V: The exec was really excited. Others who were helping out from the IV community wanted extras. We had a few people from the Ryerson Student Union come by who wanted to take pictures of the shirts. People wanted to take pictures of us with the shirts on the front and back, and I think it made us stand out in a way, like people noticed.
A: Tell me about what Campus Groups Day was like, the set up, how the table was how people responded, etc:
V: Well initially, as we were setting up, it was good, all the exec were able to make it to help put the table together and we were all bringing different elements We were a little bit afraid it was going to rain, and it didn’t only rain briefly and had little umbrellas protecting the stuff. For the most part it was a really lovely day, we had lots of people going by, we had about three pages of people signing up to get information and quite a lot of them came out on the first night. People were very excited about food, we had a variety of different kinds of food; we had cookies, samosas, Brian brought some really cool crackers and mango candies from Chinatown. Some people were stopping because of that, but some people stopped and listened but even having really colourful flyers, and the food and the shirts, people were more inclined to be like “what is this all about”. I was really excited about how colourful and full the table was, it made me really happy that our table wasn’t boring. And we had music and we were all standing and I was trying hard not to dance too much. It was a good time.
A: What was your fave moment? What were some of your highlights:
V: It’s hard to pick “a moment”, It really flowed, so I want to say the whole day was kinda similar. I was excited by how many people we got to talk to. It was a good time. Most of the exec was able to be there for the whole time, and there were a couple returning members of the community that came out and helped out, and they were really excited so it was really nice to some people we hadn’t seen all summer and it was nice that they were involved and just how excited everyone was. It was a really energetic day.
A: Did you have any special significant conversations:
V: Well, there was one girl in particular. At first people would come to the table and ask us what we were about and we’d give them a flyer or a pamphlet and tell them when our first meeting was and tell them a bit about who we are and what we’re about and then they’d usually go on their way, and then we’d realize after that they were in the same program as someone staffing the table, so we changed our approach and started asking them about what they were studying and then used it to start conversations and go from there. Talked to one girl who was a first year fashion design student, and we got to chat about the group and when we meet; she wasn’t available on Thursdays, but was excited to hear about the other events we’d be doing, so I was able to chat with her about the group and some advice being in the same program.
A: Tell me about the first 1 Peter manuscript study:
V: It was pretty good. There were a few returning members and lots of new people and people who were not used to manuscript study; and they were excited about learning this new style of studying scripture. It was a good introduction to manuscript study and to the book of Peter. We kept it more general, and felt it was a good start and good introduction to general themes in the book. It was good to get people interested.
A: How did it feel to prepare the passage for teaching:
V: It was really good going through the passage as an exec. We were really nervous leading the passage as many of us hadn’t lead a Manuscript Study before and we weren’t sure who was going to come and how it was going to go. We took it slowly, and got familiar with the passage and talked about what we thought it was saying, and came up with a few questions. But for the most part, we didn’t know specifically what was going to happen.
A: How did it feel leading the passage:
V: Really interesting, very different, it was really about being what different people got out of it and what they noticed compared to what we had noticed when we had gone through it together. It was kinda funny being on the other side, and kinda holding back and more so listening to what people were noticing and occasionally bringing them back to focus when things got on a tangent. Or being the person that the question was directed at, as opposed to being the person asking the question, instead we were trying to give them an idea of an answer or a place for them to start looking. It was funny, it felt very like – I don’t know – mature. It was a good feeling.
A: Do you have any prayer requests at this time:
V: The main thing to pray for is guidance, that the Holy Spirit would show us where to focus our efforts and what He really wants us to do and so we get a lot out of it instead of just trying to figure everything out on our own. Also pray for peace; and focus as the semester is getting busier and people are starting to catch colds and flus. Pray for strength and health; and for us to be open to new things and to do the things the Spirit is leading us to.
Please continue to pray for the Student Leaders as they continue to serve on campus.
The Arch 