Would You be My Neighbor?

This year, I have begun my Junior year at Bryan College. I have been given so many opportunities to serve here at this school. This year, I am an Orientation Gateway Leader (OGL), Service Project Coordinator, Debate co-captain, and a full-time student. My job as an OGL is pretty simple as I help the new freshmen go from event to event throughout their first semester here at Bryan. The Coordinator job, however, is more extensive.

In this job, I help Outreach Ministries on campus prepare for our all college Service Day. This is where I will coordinate around 550-600 people to serve in the Dayton, TN area. I also get to coordinate smaller scale service days once a month. These other days will only involve one project and about 10-30 people each. Another thing that I get to do is help get volunteers for the mobile food drive that comes to Dayton once a month. Since each of my projects is only once a month and all leading up to the big Service Day, you might not think that it is too extensive, but all the behind-the-scenes work is hard. A lot of people want to have service projects done at their house or business but when I only have a few dates, I have to find one that fits both my (Bryan's) schedule and their schedule. Then I have to gather whatever materials that I can gather from here, coordinate carpools and people, and then pray that everything will go right in the project.

The rest of my duties are not so bad, I love to debate and have found my outlet to do so in a formal fashion. I also love studying ministry and getting to be involved in ministry. I am a member of Students For Life here. We go to the Care Center every week to help organize baby clothes, vacuum, sweep, mop, clean the kitchen, and basically help out with whatever they need so that they can help the women that come in for help with their pregnancy.

Today all of PCI, Practical Christian Involvement, had chapel all to themselves as we all told of our initiatives. We had PALS, tutoring, Bryan at Birchwood, Rhea of Sunshine, STRIDE, Senior Adult Ministry, Neighbor2Neighbor, SSTOP, Students for Life, and Refuge. We all had about two minutes to share why the student body should join each initiative. Each leader shared their passions and why they lead the initiative that they do.

This will be an interesting year for sure! I cannot wait for it to get even more started past the first month! Until then, God bless you all!