Well, it seems like there are still a few people out there that care to read this blog, so I guess I will try to update you all on what has been going on.

Obviously, it has been a really long time since my last entry, so it is going to take a few entries to catch up.

So we will take it a bit at a time.  I think the last time I wrote it was about New student outreach, so we will pick up from there and I will give a brief overview of what has happened since then.

So shortly after NSO was over it was time to go to Fall Conference.  I always really enjoy this weekend because it is the first opportunity that the students get to forget about school for a weekend  and focus on their relationships with God, as well as getting to know each other.  Since Fall Conference happens at the beginning of the school year, it is the weekend when the new freshmen stop feeling like the new kid in school and start to feel a part of the community.



After Fall Conference, Vision conference came along.  I taught a seminar on justice in the Black community.  We talked about how the labels that are put on us by society can distract us from dealing with what is really important in our communities.


 

Vision Conference was lots of fun!

Then it was time for Men's Large Group.  That is, large group worship planned and run entirely by the guys in the chapter.  It was a night of celebration.  As you can see, it ended with lots of fun with balloons!




And of course prayer is very important in everything that we do.  I have been really happy with the commitment to prayer that the chapter has taken on this year!





And then there was the National Underground Freedom Center in Cincinnati, OH.  It was a museum that documents the struggle for justice in America since the very beginning of or country's origin.  It is a museum that I think everyone should visit.




So that is a little update, a very brief one.  Stay tuned!  Coming soon: My adventures with Barack Obama.

Hey Folks,

Here I am for a third time in one month.  Really, I think this is some kind of record for me.  Anyway, I wanted to let you all know that things are in full swing here at IU.  We got the year going with a full out sprint that we call New Student Outreach.  Here are some pics...

Of course we had to start off New Student Outreach with the traditional painting of the bridge.  For those of you who don't know, there are a couple of bridges on campus that anyone can paint to advertise an event.  These bridges get so much foot traffic  that advertising on them is priceless.  However, there is one catch.  Anyone can paint over it at anytime, first come, first served.  But by God's grace, our ads usually stay up at least 5-6 days, sometime much more than that.  You can't beat that for free advertising. 





Here is the crew that helped paint.  Aren't they a good lookin' group!  :)  Meanwhile, there was another crew of about 10 people that were walking around campus hanging up flyers and using sidewalk chalk to invite everyone on campus to our free picnic and our first meeting of the year.




Then there was the legendary shopping trip at Sam's Club.  It takes a lot of food to feed 200 hungry college students.  Here is Leitia, she was our NSO Coordinator this year.  She did a great job of thinking through the details of everything that needed to happen to get NSO rolling.




Then it was time to fire up the grill!  If you grill it, they will come!!




It was a great!  We had a nice shady spot.  Many students came, ate and just enjoyed hanging out.  We met many new people that day.  Many of whom are already becoming strong members of our group.  We are now enjoying getting to know them and are looking forward to hanging out with them at Fall Conference, (more on that later).






At Faith Fest, we met many more people.  Faith Fest is an event on campus where all of the faith based organizations hand out flyers about their organizations.  Here are some really cool people that came to help get the word out. 




And there was the "What's your Passion" display.  This was awesome.  I could not have predicted that we would get such a great response from students on campus.  It seemed that students were more than willing, even eager to share with us about the things that they are passionate about.  People wrote everything from music, to cats, to justice.  By the end of the day we had many more artistic representations of people's passions than we had space for.  It was great!  We also got to invite people to come check out our passion at our Large Group meeting that was happening on Thursday evening.

This will probably become a regular part of our outreach this year along with many other things.

So, that is a small snippet of New Student Outreach.  So I am going to try to update you all periodically on what is going on in these parts.  So stay tuned for the next installment.

In the mean time, I want to hear from you all.  Post a comment and tell me "What's your Passion?"