What Are You Betting Your Life On?

that was our Easter theme of this year. the week before Easter, we had 3 days of Easter outreaches on campus that correlated with this theme. for 3 days, we had a huge graffiti board in the Campus Center Plaza that said "What Are You Betting Your Life On?" and asked people to come up and write their thoughts. we also had hundreds of poker chips with "What are you betting your life on?" on the front and the date, time and place of our Cru meeting printed on the back as "invitations" to our special Easter Cru meeting that Wednesday. we got to meet many new students as we asked them to come up and write their answers, but we also walked around and gave out poker chips and got to meet students that way as well. it was really cool to see the graffiti board become more and more filled up each day, and we had many awesome spiritual conversations with students through it. for our special Ignite meeting, Nikki and i directed and choreographed a version of the "Everything" Lifehouse skit. for those who have not seen this skit, it is performed to the Lifehouse song "Everything" and tells the story of a girl who becomes immersed in sin. it starts with Jesus creating the girl and showing her the world, then she gets pulled away by first a guy, then money, then alcohol, drugs, beauty obsession and finally death before she fights to get back to Jesus and He triumphs over the sins. it's kind of awesome. we had rehearsals for a month before the performance, and it went so well- it even brought a few people to tears! it was so cool for Nikki and i to use our theatrical/dance skills in a ministry setting to create a powerful performance. and everyone else was amazing- we used one of our students, Colton, in the role of Jesus, and another one of our students, Melody, played "Money." after the skit, our campus director Kent came up and delivered a powerful message based on our theme, and challenged students to place their bets- on the world or on Jesus. we had almost 30 students come to our meeting and hear the message of the Gospel. God is awesome.

some pictures from the outreaches:

the finished board

students writing their thoughts

some of the thoughts

the beginning of the Everything skit

Albert stealing me away from Jesus

Colton! our Jesus in the skit- definitely had the perfect Jesus hair 

me and Albert

me and my temptations (from left): drugs, alcohol, beauty, death, boyfriend, money 

Colton throwing off my sins