I am sitting in the GSU Backcourt meeting with students. This is my office on campus and it is good to be back on campus working.
Our first two weeks have gone well. We won't know until two or three weeks from now how many new students we will have in our group. It takes that long for freshmen to decide which group on campus they will attend and our cores are just forming this week.
We had twelve new students the first meeting of the year and twelve different new students the second meeting of the year. This week Gene will be covering the topic "The Problem of Pain". We are hoping that topic will attraction some attention and get students involved in asking questions and making comments in our Tuesday night meeting.
The women's core meets for the first time this Thursday and I will find out then if I am leading a core this year. If there is an over flow I will be taking a small group. It would be a nice problem to have.
Keep praying for our outreach to men. We haven't had any new men visit our group. We are not happy about that, even though we have met many men and are being intentional about reaching out to them.
Our next major event will be our retreat Sept 30 - Oct 1. Please pray that we have at least 20 students come and that we receive the money we need for it from the university. We have a speaker - Rob and Sarah Malcolm. They are the new Chi Alpaha pastors at Yale. We will be going out to Framingham, just outside of Boston to a beautiful retreat center there. By then the leaves will be bright with color and the countryside will be beautiful.
