Easter Crusade 2008
Easter Crusade was hard for me.
To start with, I was speaking at the first lunchtime session (Monday) and came down with a very nasty sickness on Saturday night/Sunday morning. This didn’t do much for my preparation or confidence, and coupled with little to no advertising on campus led to a rather subdued speaker and a very small turnout.
Tuesday was far better number-wise (largely due to Jane, our Ni-Vanuatu VP who is a powerhouse at last-minute inviting!) but to be brutally honest I was devastated that prosperity theology found its way into a talk on the cross.
Wednesday saw a smaller turn-out again, though some follow-on from the Tuesday crowd happened which was great.
Thursday was the climax of the week with a night of songs, dances, ‘action-songs’ (songs with a mixture of dance and signed English acted out) from various church youth groups, cultural student groups (USP has different associations for each island group involved e.g. Tongan SA), and the CF itself. From an event management point of view it was a disaster, but had a very warm vibe to it which set the hundred-and-fifty-odd attendees at ease. I spoke again – this time on the resurrection – which was, well, hard. My talk made a lot of sense in my head, but all week I’d struggled getting it down on paper, then when I did I kept reworking it and in the end felt that I gave a Biblically-faithful but fairly dry effort… Time will tell I suppose. Keep an eye on Flickr for photos and videos soon!
(please excuse the fairly clinical tone, read the next post and you’ll understand why I’m out of creativity!)
Ooo, I can’t post this without mention of something special! Last Wednesday I managed to catch up with Heather, a deaconess from my local Presbyterian church who my team from 2006 had dinner with about half a dozen times…and she remembered us! Then, Thursday arvo I was was walking through town and ran into Tomas – the student I roomed with when we stayed at Talua!! Praise God for old friends!
Posted: Mar 22, 10:23 PM Category: USP
Kathryn · Apr 5, 05:37 PM
Kakae Heather i numba wan!
J · Apr 6, 02:39 AM
Hahahe she remembered that straight off!!