Hey there FIU

(From Monday March 5th)

This has been such a fun full day!

We started the day with morning devotions! So glad Elissa is here b/c she lead worship with a few students.

Then we headed to Florida International University. The campus was huge and so much fun! They had so many sculptures everywhere! At ECU they are mostly just around the art building, so it was fun to see them all over campus. They had several fountains and ponds with turtles, painted bridges, swings, I could go on and on! Alan Mitchell would have loved it! I’m sure someone with ideation designed it!

We did evangelism on campus using the God Test which is a tool we use all the time at ECU. We all partnered up two by two. I was partner with Kim. The first conversation we had was great! It was with a girl Kelly, she was a little hesitant to talk to us at first but we just made small talk and then did the God Test. By the end we made a friend! We are hoping to hang out with her again Wed when we go back to FIU.

After that conversation it was time for lunch. Let me tell you, FIU’s student center puts Mendenhall to shame! There were so many restaurants. We ate at Pollo Tropical and had the most delish meal I’ve ever had on a college campus!

After lunch we found some cool sculptures that we wanted to take pictures of! Then we decided it was time to actually get down to business. Kim said she wanted to talk to a guy and I was like “umm are you sure you don’t want to talk to a girl??” She wanted to talk to him so I just said “ok!” It went alright, but not the greatest. At one point he close the God Test book and passed it back to us! Ha! So that shows how into it he was. Oh well, you win some, you lose some!

After lunch we did an outreach with corn hole, ultimate Frisbee, and football. Basically we were just hanging out on a grassy part of campus. This was fun, I just sat and talked with the girls! It was fun to get to know Kristen and Bella more!! So thankful for our friendships. It is always nice to hang out with people in the same station of life as you doing the same thing! I felt so encouraged talking to them about ministry and being single. Bella and I are the same age and have a lot in common.

Tonight after dinner we went to the University of Miami and did a prayer walk there. It was awesome. I was walking with Bella, Calvin, and Akeem praying for the campus. It stirred something inside of me! I have always had a heart for different college campuses so going to two today was incredible! We were praying for divine appointments, that the students we met this week would eventually be student leaders that would pour out their hearts and lives for their college campus, both while in school and for a season after college! Praying that students will get plugged into the ministry/church/ and go to Campus Harvest this year!