Like tax season for an accountant
That’s what the start of the school year feels like in campus ministry. In addition to digging (and praying and meeting and asking…) my way out of big funding deficit, the beginning of the ministry year is in full effect… and classes don’t even start until next Thursday.
Last weekend we took part in IGNITE! - InterVarsity’s Southern California Evangelism conference. Yesterday we had our very first faculty/staff prayer meeting (yeah!!!) and last night we gathered some of our returning students to prepare for Move-In on Saturday and for meeting and welcoming new students, over the next few weeks especially. Saturday we’ll be sweating it out (literally) in service, helping students move-in into the housing units (their not dorms, trust me). Then we’ve got 3 days of tabling, surveys, a raffle, a big BBQ to kick-off the quarter, our first DEEP, and then the first day of class with our first two Bible studies - day & night - starting off the year. We’re going to be preaching through the book of Luke at DEEP this year, and teaching through the parables in Bible study. Should be good times all the way around.
With the anticipation of all the craziness that accompanies the first half of the quarter (from now until the end of October when we go out to Catalina for our annual Fall conference), we spent sometime today as a staff team to pray. I won’t list out all of the ugly details here, but for those of you who pray, please do. More than just on-time taxes are on the line.