Its amazing how exhausting this city can be, just finding a way to travel from point a to point b seems to sap your energy. Thankfully we have a day off today and can explore the city as tourists. The students will arrive tomorrow. Many of them even a few days ago still had aLOT of support to raise for NY. Pray that the remainder would come in quickly and that they would step out in faith to make phone calls.
As we've sat through planning for the summer, we've got a basic schedule. For the track I'm staffing (the arts track), we'll spend two days on campus meeting students from all over NYC and doing the Soularium with them (more on that later). We'll be in our art studio Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday each week designing pieces based on students responses to what they think describes God.
Also, this year to make sure that students are spending time with their Creator so that everything they do will flow out of that, a guy down at Campus Crusade headquarters has actually designed a devotional for our arts track that will be integrated into each day and particularly into studio time before they even start working on a piece each day.
Really, the main goal of this summer is to learn or become better at integrating art into our faith. God made us with the ability to create and an ability to connect to others through our creativity and it would be a shame to waste that.
I'll be meeting with three of the arts track girls each week for discipleship. Pray that we would connect and that they would be open to discipleship.
Ok, now back to Soularium. Soularium basically begins as a survey. 5 questions, you might normally see them on a typical spiritual interest survey, but there's something different about the way students answer. They have to give their responses through 50 photographic images. And they love it! We used it at Georgia State University and students thought it was great. I was really struck in particular that several students when asked to describe God chose the image of church doors chained shut.
This tool enables you to go really deep really quickly. Students share alot from their own lives that they wouldn't normally in a typical meeting on campus. It allows for deep connection and hopefully, a connection to the Gospel. This is the tool we'll be using on campus to get results for our art as well as with the intention of learning how to step out in faith to share what we believe, but also, to become better listeners as we meet with people.
So pray for us as we go out on campuses over the next few weeks, that God would lead us to people who are truly searching.
You can check more about Soularium out at http://www.mysoularium.com.
As we've sat through planning for the summer, we've got a basic schedule. For the track I'm staffing (the arts track), we'll spend two days on campus meeting students from all over NYC and doing the Soularium with them (more on that later). We'll be in our art studio Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday each week designing pieces based on students responses to what they think describes God.
Also, this year to make sure that students are spending time with their Creator so that everything they do will flow out of that, a guy down at Campus Crusade headquarters has actually designed a devotional for our arts track that will be integrated into each day and particularly into studio time before they even start working on a piece each day.
Really, the main goal of this summer is to learn or become better at integrating art into our faith. God made us with the ability to create and an ability to connect to others through our creativity and it would be a shame to waste that.
I'll be meeting with three of the arts track girls each week for discipleship. Pray that we would connect and that they would be open to discipleship.
Ok, now back to Soularium. Soularium basically begins as a survey. 5 questions, you might normally see them on a typical spiritual interest survey, but there's something different about the way students answer. They have to give their responses through 50 photographic images. And they love it! We used it at Georgia State University and students thought it was great. I was really struck in particular that several students when asked to describe God chose the image of church doors chained shut.
This tool enables you to go really deep really quickly. Students share alot from their own lives that they wouldn't normally in a typical meeting on campus. It allows for deep connection and hopefully, a connection to the Gospel. This is the tool we'll be using on campus to get results for our art as well as with the intention of learning how to step out in faith to share what we believe, but also, to become better listeners as we meet with people.
So pray for us as we go out on campuses over the next few weeks, that God would lead us to people who are truly searching.
You can check more about Soularium out at http://www.mysoularium.com.
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