Spring!

Spring is finally here!! Finally, the "cold" has left and the sun and warm weather have arrived. I am extremely thankful for that. Anyways, UPDATES! Its been awhile since I've updated so I guess that's one New Years resolution already down the tube ... oh well I guess its a good thing that I'm not too crushed. This semester has been awesome! Currently, Chad Smith, the campus minister at Belhaven University, is making his way through a series about Glorification and the New Earth. It has been excellent so far and has everyone looking forward with eager anticipation. Its also influenced quite a few students to rethink their ideas about community and what good community looks like. That has been wonderful to see because one of the things Chad and I are focusing on the most is trying to build good community and the only way we can do that is if students understand what good community is. So needless to say God is at work. We have just returned from our Spring break weekend trip to Memphis, TN and the Rising 2010 conference. It was a wonderful weekend and our eclectic bunch of students really came together as a group. It was good to watch God working in these students lives over the weekend. Pictures will be forthcoming. I always get excited around spring break time because a lot of students really get their worlds rocked for some reason and I'm looking forward to the return of students on monday and hearing all about what happened. God changes many student's lives because they return brokenhearted and with a loss of confidence in self. They finally realize how meaningless life without God is and how they drift like a ship without a rudder when they are apart from Him. Keep these students in your prayers this week as they are on Spring Break and ask God to hold them safely in His hands as their worlds are rocked. Ask Him to show these students what life could be like if they turned to Him and put their faith in Jesus.