My teammate Chris approached me at the beginning of our semester here at Minnesota State University about reaching out to the Greeks on campus. He has had them on his heart for a long time and he invited me to reach out to sororities as he reached out to the fraternity brothers. I agreed, but as the two week sprint of outreach continued, I started to feel overwhelmed. My teammate Alison and I made it a point to check in with one another about the women that we had met or invited into our Bible studies and we started to grow anxious about whether or not we were going to be able to lead enough Bible studies to encompass all of the groups that we had a heart for. I had run into many more upperclassmen women than freshmen at first, and I didn’t know how I was going to be able to have an upperclassmen study and a sorority study as Chris had suggested with the other studies that were already forming. Last Tuesday, our regional directors, Mark Bartek and Paul Wilburn came into town to see how we were doing. In the evening, Chris got a phone call from student leader of Greek life who he had met the week previous. There was an all-Greek meeting on campus in 2 hours and if we wanted to say anything about our ministry we were invited to do so! Chris was pumped….and I was nervous! My experience with Greek systems was pretty limited in my own undergraduate experience and I had the pressure of creating too many studies in the back of my head.
I arrived in Ostrander Auditorium to find hundreds of Greek-life students chanting different cheers for their house, laughing and running around to greet people they had not seen over the summer. I scanned the crowd and immediately found, Amber, a girl that I had met during my first days on campus. She was an upperclassman that I invited to Bible study. She moved slightly to the side and behind her was, Christine, another junior that I had met the same way. One by one, all of the women that I had met during outreach showed up in the same room! I couldn’t believe it and I immediately got the butterflies about how cool this was! I didn’t have to worry about trying to pull junior and senior women together with sorority sisters or be anxious about creating too many studies to serve them well because God had put them all together for me already! Moral of the story? God had a heart for Greek brothers and sisters on MSU’s campus WAY before Chris and I had a heart for them.
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