This year my job title is campus staff or ministry intern. The roles include bible study leader, intern team member, gathering freshmen. But another role I have is to carry hope.
What does it mean to carry hope?
I think I am learning what it means to carry hope that Jesus is at work. In the midst of hardship I am learning. In the midst of rejection. When only one person of the 30 we invited to come to bible study come. I am learning what it means to carry hope to the people who come, for my coleaders Aris and Jing. For myself as this is my job and it seems like I am failing.
I am learning to carry hope that God is good and has good plans. And next week we are going to go at it again and try to invite differently. I am not just putting on a smile. I admit this week sucked, but I am carrying hope that god will use this. That we will go at it again in prayer and faith that God will do a new thing next week and every week.
My prayer is this: (for myself, for Aris, for Jing, for CU IV, for all of CU, for the world!)
Sustain me, my God, according to your promise, and I will live;
do not let my hopes be dashed.
(Psalm 119:116 NIV)
Amen
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