The theme of the conference was being a change agent. The sessions started out Friday by talking about how we need to balance our relationship with Jesus through intimacy and involvement. How you need to have both of these things in your life to truly experience Jesus and have a balanced relationship with Him. This night we also were told to take a piece of fabric and write our name on it and bring it to the rest of the sessions with us as we would be adding to it.
Saturday morning the session was about Jesus coming and dwelling among us. It actually reminded me of Urbana's theme. Tim talked about how Jesus lived among the people and was a part of their lives, etc. He also somewhat talked about how Jesus had an influence on his disciples and taught them and lived with them, etc. During this session we picked up a piece of fabric and wrote down the names of people that have influenced our faith journeys. We attached both of these squares together with a safety pin. The people I wrote about that have influenced me are my parents, Kris, Kelly, and Jon. They were all very influential in me discovering what my faith was during middle and high school and I'm very thankful for all of their guidance in my life.
Saturday nights session talked about us being a change agent. We were challenged with thinking about people in our lives that we could influence and be a change agent for. These are the people that we can invest in and be a part of their lives like people have been in our lives. We were also challenged by Tim to become that change agent and that included being ready and willing to follow the call of God. He invited those who felt this to stand up. Honestly I didn't stand up. I'm not sure if it's the willing or ready part that I'm struggling with. I tried to think about it Saturday night and have been wrestling with that question since. I'm still not exactly sure which part it is. I think it's a combination of the two. I want to be willing, but yet I still want to make excuses. I want to be ready, but there may still be more that I need to do before I am actually ready. I'll keep you updated if I figure this out (which I probably won't). This night we took another piece of fabric and wrote the names of the people that we wanted to be change agents for. We then safety pinned all 3 pieces of fabric together.
On Sunday we had our last session and mainly talked about bringing the experience back to campus and a variety of people shared their testimonies of the weekend and what they had experienced. Towards the end we all took 1 last safety pin and pinned our fabric chains to a fishing line, which was then brought to the front after everyone's was on there. It showed the progression of the effects people lives have on us and who we can effect. We then prayed for the campuses and people on the chains.
Overall it was a great weekend and my sister also came with Creighton. It was awesome to see her and be at Riverside together doing Intervarsity stuff. We hung out and chatted a decent amount so that was really nice.
Another really cool thing we did as a chapter was to go to the prayer room and each campus had a tree. The activity was to write something on the "leaves" that showed a group on campus where you had influence. Once everyone had put things on the leaves and they were on the tree we prayed for the different groups. Its amazing to see all the different student/staff populations that the people from Drake Intervarsity have influence in. I'll be very excited to see where God uses our spheres of influence to further the Kingdom this year!
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