Dorm Storm? Didn't we have that 6 months ago? Did it even accomplish anything?

At the beginning of the school year we invaded the different dorms on campus holding various events (game nights, ice cream socials, etc) to reach out to the students on campus. Each night we met hundreds of people, gave out free slices of pizza, played wii until our arms fell off, scooped ice cream even after the ice cream sundaes turned into ice cream soup, and talked with A LOT of different people. At the end of each night I'd walk away feeling excited that the harvest was plentiful, but a bit uncertain, wondering if our efforts would amount to anything at all.

So it was CRAZY for me to see that one of the people I met at our first South Quad dorm storm was becoming a member on Sunday! It was surreal watching him sign the covenant - I flashed back to his first week of school as he wore his Michigan orientation lanyard and met people from our church for the first time, and couldn't believe this was the same person.

Throughout all the prayer and preparation for each dorm storm, we would always say, "We don't need to reach hundreds of people, just one person will make all this worthwhile". Seeing that "one person" on Sunday reignited my excitement for everything we've been doing since August.

With the end of the school year quickly approaching, consider this a big PUSH to sign up for OCR (operation campus reach) next year. You freshmen may not realize it, but a lot of prayer and preparation went into your joining our family. Every year, we come to school a week before the start of classes to prepare for the students' arrival and "storm" the campus. It's always exciting and challenging and I've never once regretted taking part in it. So before you guys schedule your return flights to arrive the day before classes, RETHINK THAT DECISION. As P.Seth loves to say, "our decisions determine our destiny" =P