More fun with Tabling!

Hello, friends!

Today was definitely a fun day.  Robert, one of our InterVarsity interns, and I went to Flo Valley to do some tabling and see if we could get some folk interested in joining InterVarsity at Flo Valley.  One of the fun things about tabling is that you get to meet some of the most interesting people.  Here are some of the folk I encountered today (names have been changed):

- Donna is a 48-year-old student @ Flo Valley, working to get her degree in social work.  Her greatest goals in life are to walk down the graduation aisle (she couldn't afford the cap and gown when she graduated high school) and to walk down the wedding aisle. 

- Jimmy is an agnostic student who has been living with brain cancer for the past 6 years.  By his view, Christianity is the same story that folk have been telling each other for thousands of years.  Belief in self is the most important belief out there. 

- Rick is a student who considers himself a Christian but doesn't go to church because it was too boring.  He believes that the world is messed up but not because of sin, because of the Illuminati that is currently running the government.  Their goal is to erradicate 80% of the world's population to a managable size. 

How can you not have fun talking with these students about Jesus?!  Robert did a great job talking to students and I'm sure that the students he met were just as interesting as the ones I met. 

What I love most about tabling is that you have no idea who you are going to meet and what they are going to need.  Sometimes the students who you would never expect to have any interest in Christianity really open up once you actually take the time to have a conversation with them. 

As much fun as tabling is, now the real fun begins.  Now it's time to follow-up and have those secondary conversations with students, to see if they want to continue to join us in community as we reach the campus with the Gospel. 

Please pray for us as we have these conversations.  Pray that students will be open to what we're trying to do and that this will lead to more connections. 

Have an excellent day! 

~Adam