The Bruised Reed

After the fund development training was done we moved onto campus training. This centered around multi ethnicity, evangelism, leadership development, and small groups. I think that covers it all (I’m sure I missed something). Instead of going through each of the facets of the new staff training, I will just speak on one. I’d love to talk with you about my time their if your interested.

I went to a session called “Saturation Evangelism”. It was interesting, a different way of approaching evangelism. I’m still processing it but was intrigued by it. The session analyzed the “multiple modes, multiple team” approach within the value integration theory on a campus-wide level. It not only reaches many for Christ but also positively impacts the campus perception of evangelicals. That is a quick sum of the session. The session was done by York Moore who is the regional director of evangelism for IV in the Great Lakes East region and his website is www.tellthestory.net. The saturation evangelism event includes conversational evangelism, Proxe Stations, niche’ evangelistic events, and a main event. Check it out on his site.

It is Saturday and we have been in Madison, WI for ONS since Monday. We have been mainly focusing on fund development. Today is our day of rest were nothing is scheduled and we have time specifically set aside in our day for rest. As much as I love hearing about fundraising, I am very glad that it is over with. I feel that our region, Blue Ridge, does a good job caring for staff in this regard, so I am very excited to move onto other topics. The rest of our time here we will be discussing Chapter Building vision, Multi ethnicity, Evangelism, Small Groups, Our Campus Witness, and a few other talk specific times. I will be posting my experieces in most of these sessions on here. I haven’t really been posting this past week since we have been doing fund development training.

Tracy and I are heading to ONS (orientation for new staff) tomorrow for ten days, we will be getting back on the 27th. ONS is something that all new staff go to that are with Intervarsity. It takes place in Madison, WI. So, today is full of packing and last minute things we have forgotten to do this week. This last week has been a whirlwind for us. We have been trying to do some major cleaning around the apartment, getting everything in order for being gone for 10+ days, etc.. Then we had about a million and one things that we needed to take care of that we didn’t plan on come up throughout the week. Isn’t it funny how that seems to happen when you have everything all planned out? It wasn’t too bad, we managed to get everything done that we wanted to and have time to do all the “extra” stuff.

I will be posting while I am in Madison. It’s going to be a great time!!!