Yesterday

Yesterday was a long day. It was my first marathon campus day of the semester, with 11 hours with students. Thanks to training in IL last week, it was a must to catch up with key students.
At about 5:00 i was sitting in the new University Center in the "Brewhaus," wondering "what happened over break?" How did all this stuff happen with my leaders and i didn't know about it. I learned 2 things; 1. Close Christian fellowship is EXTREMELY important. 2. Regular face-to-face contact is a must when serving a student. I guess Facebook won't take over campus work, after all.
To make a long story short, i went to our first large group meeting a little down in the dumps, and not excited because i had no idea what was going to happen at the meeting. We were in a new room, we just asked the speaker a week before hand, i scrambles with student to find stuff we needed for large group (stuff like a projector and screen that the university said we would have but that wasn't true), and i hadn' talked to the worship team at all before last night.
Something happened that was good for me to see. I was expecting large group to only be as good as the effort i had put into it, but that was thankfully not the case. The students were excited about the new venue. The worship band was awesome, the speaker was great, several new transfer students came, students brought their unbelieving friends, and it was the biggest greatest large group i've ever seen or heard of at Stevent Point. Praise God! Hopes are very high for the semester, now i just need my large group coordinator to get his act together and find speakers!