All You Need is Love

our "Love collage" 

the day before Valentine's Day, the girls hosted an all-girls Valentine's party at The Shire (the house that is the home to me, Nikki, Christine, Amy and Amanda). the goal was to strengthen our friendship with some of the girls we knew and hopefully get a chance to share the gospel.  we came up with the theme: “What is Love?” and had a cookie decorating station, snacks, and we decorated the house with hearts and streamers (which remain hung up in our living room to this day).  our most theme-oriented activity was the painting station, where you could paint your answer to the question: “What is Love?” the goal was to use this as a way to get into spiritual conversations with the girls. i was able to share some of my testimony with a couple girls and explain more about Cru and why i work for them, but not explain the full Gospel.  the Valentine’s Day party did start some relational foundation work that was important for us to build for the future.  we got to have our friends over to our home for the first time.  we spent an evening making something together, and doing something unique.  the girls who came enjoyed the evening, and many of the girls who came are still connected to our ministry a few months later.

pics from the party: 

after celebrating with students on the 13^th, on Valentine’s Day itself we celebrated as a team.  we all dressed up and the men hosted dinner at their apartment, cooking up French onion soup, salad, lasagna, garlic bread, and cookies for dessert.  as a special treat, they took some time before the meal to tell each one of the ladies what they had appreciated about us this year.  it was super sweet and a really fun way for us all to enjoy Valentine's Day together. 

pictures from Valentine's Day: 

we love-bombed the boys' door

our classy STINT team after Valentine's Day dinner