My second year at Moody, I became friends with the new RA of the floor. Together, we wrestled with how to minister to an older floor that had become fractured due to members of the floor having established friendships in other areas of life. I remember caring for one of our 4 new freshmen and just being available and accessible to engage in life and theological discussions.
My third year, the Lord placed on my heart to initiate and start up a regular prayer meeting on the floor for the floor, campus, and the city. With my RA’s permission, Monday night 7-8pm became a time of prayer in the lobby of the floor. Many nights I would only have one or two fellow floor members show up and not even for the whole time. This did not stop me from having the regular time of prayer. In fact, on the nights when it was just me God would use to teach me that loving a community is about more than me. Then when fellow floor members came I would be encouraged and loved to see their hearts poured out in prayer.
I also invested about 2-3 hours a week into the lives of five of the freshmen. These relationships have continued beyond my graduation and still bear much fruit in all of our lives. I would engage, challenge and confront them in their relationships with God, studies, and battles with sin. They would often just come into my dorm room and sit and …show more content…
Identity is an issue for emerging adults and for all of humanity. I once had a professor say that identity became an issue for mankind at the Fall when we lost sight of our purpose. Since we are made in the image of God we all know that we are supposed to be someone or something. Due to sin, we struggle with what are purpose is and thus often create our own purposes. We identify ourselves with our gender, jobs, family, culture, ethnicity, and what we own. The problem with these things is that they are not stable
My third year, the Lord placed on my heart to initiate and start up a regular prayer meeting on the floor for the floor, campus, and the city. With my RA’s permission, Monday night 7-8pm became a time of prayer in the lobby of the floor. Many nights I would only have one or two fellow floor members show up and not even for the whole time. This did not stop me from having the regular time of prayer. In fact, on the nights when it was just me God would use to teach me that loving a community is about more than me. Then when fellow floor members came I would be encouraged and loved to see their hearts poured out in prayer.
I also invested about 2-3 hours a week into the lives of five of the freshmen. These relationships have continued beyond my graduation and still bear much fruit in all of our lives. I would engage, challenge and confront them in their relationships with God, studies, and battles with sin. They would often just come into my dorm room and sit and …show more content…
Identity is an issue for emerging adults and for all of humanity. I once had a professor say that identity became an issue for mankind at the Fall when we lost sight of our purpose. Since we are made in the image of God we all know that we are supposed to be someone or something. Due to sin, we struggle with what are purpose is and thus often create our own purposes. We identify ourselves with our gender, jobs, family, culture, ethnicity, and what we own. The problem with these things is that they are not stable