End of 1st Semester

I've been doing this internship for 4 full months now. It is the end of the college semester and it went great! We had a big finals party night. This last friday on Dec 18th. Tons of stuff was happening. There were 140 college students. We had massage therapists, free food, movies on the big screen in the auditorium, video games in the student ministry room, silent study rooms for anyone who wanted to study and free coffee and espresso drinks. It was open from 6pm till 1am and it was a delight.

Tons of great conversations were had by man of the people on my team. We really loved to see community happening and relationships being made. Sometimes it can be a tough thing being a church and making sure that people feel welcome. There are so many stereotypes that we have to work around. But we just keep loving Jesus and people and it seems that people realize that it is a fun place to be.

John and I are getting ready for the next semester. We are trying to learn from the last semester and tweek the things that need to be tweeked in order to have a better and more productive 2nd semester with the college students. They all are on a much needed break and it gives John and I some time to pray for them and get ready for the next step. We are really excited about the things coming up this semester; John will be teaching a class on Worldviews we'll have some other discussion/lecture things, as well as the continuation of the coffee/info table, the small groups and a few come and have fun events.

Now I have to get back to work, filing some VLI information and getting ready for the next quarter of VLI. Hopefully all the VLI students are ready for a good quarter. I know I am.

Love ya.
-Mike