The last weekend in March, I went to Georgia for a training conference on how to raise my support budget. A student from UVA rode down to the conference center in Toccoa, GA with me; we spend most of the car ride talking about the ministries we are working with or will work with. She'll graduate in May and is hoping to give a year to Students for Christ (SfC), Europe's version of Chi Alpha.
At the conference, we learned how to present our vision and love for our mission field (for most of us, it was Chi Alpha) to our potential supporter team. We also learned how to connect with people in order to share our vision for the campus where we'll be. We stayed at a wonderful conference center that reminded me somewhat of a modern-day Camp Fincastle. We had a few hours Saturday afternoon to ourselves as a break and a few of us took books and went by the lake to soak up the sun and enjoy the quiet. It was nice to slow down for a few hours. The other hours we were there were filled with a LOT useful information, sleeping, and enjoying meals with the team. I did notice that the conference center where we stayed had a curfew of 11pm and a "lights-out" rule at 12am...these people definitely aren't used to working with collegiate ministries where late nights and early mornings are the norm. I don't think we were even close to following that rule over the weekend. :)
For me, it was great to be around people who are close to my age and who have the same passion and love for campus ministry as I do. There are so many amazing stories just from the 8-10 campuses that were represented there. God is really moving on the college campuses in America and around the world.
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