Author: Young Adult Ministry

On a Christian Campus Sophomore year is awkward. I was excited to be back at school. I think the best part was that it felt so comfortable right away. It was a little strange because I’m not living with the same group of girls as last year, but the girls I’m living with are all great. It was wonderful to see my friends from last year. But then classes started. I don’t have classes with the same people, and I don’t see the people I saw almost daily last year. In addition, I’m in a different choir and starting...

On a Secular Campus I’ve been home from school now for a few weeks, and it is really nice to be back at my home church family. I missed it a lot. Being at college, it was a conscious, difficult decision to make to go to church and to stay in the word consistently. There was no one telling me to do so. It was all up to me. Now, at home, it’s so much easier. I smoothly fell right back into the routine I’ve been going through my entire life. Going to church every Sunday with my family....

On a Secular Campus A couple weekends ago, one of my friends spent the night in my room. It was a bit last minute, but ended up being a lot of fun. She, my roommate and I watched movies all night and had some of those deeply profound conversations that only seem to make sense at two in the morning. One of the topics we discussed was what actually caused her to ask me if she could come over in the first place. The reason she needed a place to sleep for the night was because her roommate had...