LARGE

This year we are moving our focus of ministry from a weekly meeting format where we attempt to begin as many Bible studies as possible, and emphasize a big weekly meeting, to a format where we emphasize less Bible studies in hope that they would be larger communities where students can come and find growth in Christ, and a large tight knit community.
Last night was our first night to see how this happens. Autumn and I are leading a group, which we call Large Groups, our other staff is leading a group, and we have 4 sophomore students taking on a group themselves. We spent the last week putting on events around campus where we can meet people, specifically freshmen. As we did these events we were getting phone numbers, and sitting down one on one with them to get to know them and to share the Gospel. We were hoping that all these people would come and check out a Large Group.
We are so thrilled this morning to see how God provided for us. Our Large Group had 28 people, which was a blast! We had a great time meeting some new people, and seeing alot that we had previously met. Our student lead Large Group had 32 people show up, and our other staff lead group, which meets off campus and targets Greeks and athletes had 12! Each group studied what a committment to Christ looks like from Luke 9:58=61.
We pray that each students felt welcome in involved, and that we would do a good job not only pursuing them spiritually but socially. We pray that they would come back next week, bring a friend, and dive in deep in the community on Large Group!