Welcome Week 2009

The last couple of weeks have been swallowed up by work on the new campus house -- but we are FINALLY seeing light at the end of the tunnel (at least for the projects we hope to complete this year). There are rooms that are CLEAN and functional with furniture and curtains! SUCH PROGRESS! We've even had numerous gatherings there and welcomed a few freshmen to campus at our cookout yesterday. This is the BEFORE picture. See the AFTER picture of the GO House in the next entry.

But it's here at last: the end of summer and the beginning of new year of ministry at UW-O. Freshmen moved in yesterday, all the returning students came back today. TCF helped move people in and invited hundreds of people to join us for our week of activities!

We have a Breakfast for Returning TCFers , the Taste of Oshkosh (the organization fair), and the Faith Community Cookout all tomorrow; a Video-Scavenger Hunt on Wednesday, Game Night on Thursday, a House Party on Friday, Ultimate Frisbee and "Night at the Northwoods" on Saturday, the kickoff service for 180 Church on Sunday (180 is the Wisconsin Christian Campus Ministries church, like TCF is one of two WCCM campus ministries), and a party for the Packers/Bears game Sunday evening. Whew!

In the meantime, the students (including Rob) start school on Wednesday! Pray for sanity!

Pray for us and the incoming students! May they be inspired and obedient to God's call to search Him out -- to try something other than the typical party scene. May we be welcoming and wise in our words and actions as we seek to introduce students to Christ and get them hooked on Him!