You know how you make a plan and then you set out to accomplish the plan and somewhere along the way you just start to wonder who was the genius who came up with this plan to begin with? That's totally where my mind was around 6pm the night of September the 8th, aka the night of our first Chi Alpha Service at SFA. We were finishing the set-up of chairs at the Chi Alpha Cafe a block off campus and, to be very honest, I was really struggling to believe there would be enough students to fill the 20-ish metal folding chairs we'd just lined up. I'm a woman of great faith, I know. But we walked onto this campus knowing exactly one student - she knew a handful more, but there just wasn't much happening. Me, Derrick, Kevin (a 6' tall black guy who's into football), Brandon (a crazy-high energy kid who drinks Mountain Dew for breakfast), and Brett (the quiet one from Kansas who doesn't understand why it's so hot in Texas). Let's just say my hopes weren't too high.
We sat in staff meeting that morning and discussed all the contingencies. What to do if, like the weather threatened, it rained. What to do if no one showed up. What to do if we had 10 people and 20 chairs. What to do if the girls who live in the house part of the Cafe walked through service carrying their dirty laundry! We had a plan for everything. Except the one thing that actually happened. In the end, it did rain (but only for about 20 minutes at 6:15pm) and no one needed to do laundry that night... but the 20 chairs were
NOT ENOUGH!!!
We had 40 students come to the first meeting!
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