Uno...I'm out :)

Nothing quite says F&M InterVarsity like an all-inclusive game of Uno where we're teaching people how to play along the way. Not wanting to leave anyone out or to make a start a new game, we kept adding players until is was more than just F&M and you literally had to crawl into the middle to play your card. It was very easy to forget who had uno or stop them before they were out and eventually left the game. It was an amazing experience and now an awesome memory that I think encompasses my thoughts about F&M as I wind down my final days with F&M's InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. It's been fun to play and learn and grow with the students and the campus I first learned to love as a student my freshman year- 8 years ago. Just like Uno, the colors and directions around the circle, style of play (regular, crazy, etc.) and players themselves change but the game is the same.

The ministry at F&M has been like this for me. During my first four years I learned about college ministry and how to love my friends and peers the way God loves them and to hope for them the way God hopes for them. Over the last four years, I've gotten to see what it means to learn while leading, inviting others to join in, and assisting in the work God is already doing by cultivating and watering the seedlings of growth and new life God has planted all over the campus. Now I'm being called to another garden to help tend as I step into assisting with the ministry at York College of Pennsylvania. I've said uno and now play my last card, ready to leave the game because my cards have run out. In many ways it's actually time to reshuffle the cards and and join the fun at York - to laugh, learn, pray, worship, fellowship, and together, care for the students at York. God has given me a hope that students at York also might truly live in the strength of his truth and promises, love the campus and be loved by the community he's establishing in the fellowship group, and laugh celebrating and sharing with joy all that God has done in their lives and world. Change can be a hard but beautiful thing. I'm excited to see what God will do as he brings the things he's started to completion in him.