A New Day

Wow, it was an historic election season. I was telling friends earlier this week that I was kind of excited that Barack Obama was our potential next president. Growing up in the 80s and 90s, I never imagined that our nation would be ready to elect a minority to the White House before I made it to 30. It's a ground breaking event, to be sure.

Of course, the grain of salt to take with all the excitement is that racial/ethnic/class antagonisms still exists all over our nation, and the color of one's skin can still equal advantage or disadvantage in many settings. 

So, I hope you'll celebrate the step our nation has taken regardless of your political perspectives, but I also hope you'll continue to search your own heart for any and all roots of prejudice - they are subtle and hard to root out. May the Lord give us grace!

My last election thought for the day is to encourage you to take a look at the post-election message from the Superintendent of the Assemblies of Good (sponsoring fellowship of Chi Alpha), Dr. George O. Wood at www.ag.org It's worth your time.

In other news, I'm taking the final exam for New Testament Greek II tomorrow. I'm a bit nervous, but beginning to have confidence that I will pass. After this, I'll be headed into graduate level NT Greek sometime in the new year.

In other prayer needs: We started this academic year with small, tenuous groups at UNO and Loyola. With their small numbers, and the challenges we had faced at those universities, we restructured what we were doing there with the hopes of breaking through some barriers. Well, God has answered our prayers, and now it's time to reevaluate as we head toward the end of the fall semester. Both groups will need to be restructured again in January because of the great growth we have seen!

At Loyola, we have a burgeoning community of Christian students with growing excitement to make a real difference at their school as witnesses to the Good News of the Kingdom of God!

At UNO, we have an diverse group of spiritual seekers intermixed with a few growing Christians. There is so much that God is doing.

I look forward to reporting more testimonies of God's continued work on these campuses as we wrap up the fall, and head into the new year.