Fighting the Fight

Greetings from warm sunny Florida!

We’ve been keeping busy down here in the Sunshine State over the past few days. Though we’ve only been together for six days, we’ve banded together to form a family that cares deeply for one another.

Tuesday began with our morning meeting, which included worship led by our band, devotions from Jenny Lang, and evangelism training from Ben Rivera. We were pumped up to get out on the beach and share with students, as well as soak up some of the warm sun.

Ted and Darren leading us in worship.

At our evening session, Roger Hershey challenged us to yield our rights. He showed us in the Word how Jesus yielded His rights to comfort, respect, justice, understanding and life. Like Christ, we must yield our rights to good health, financial security, time, privacy, respect, relationships, convenience, and family approval. A hard concept to grasp but a powerful message of Truth. Thanks Hersh!

Roger Hershey is on staff at Penn State with Campus Crusade for Christ.

Tuesday evening was spent in men and women’s time. What a sweet time to connect as brothers and sisters and celebrate how God created each of us!

Wednesday brought a fun change of pace. After our morning session, we came together with other campuses and spring breakers to pack meals in a Haiti Relief effort. For two hours, we formed teams of 15 people per table to scoop, measure and seal bags of dried food to ship to Haiti. Each bag can feed 6 people. The conference goal was to pack 1 million meals over the course of the month. I’m proud to say we've packed 965,000 meals and have one more week to reach our goal! We had a blast showing Christ’s love through our actions and know this food will be a huge blessing to those in need.

Haiti Relief: Packing Meals

Wednesday evening, our men treated the ladies to dinner. After cleaning up, we were picked up from our villas (apartments) and escorted back to the guys place. As we approached, the delicious aroma of shrimp scampi and fettuccini alfredo filled the air. After a delicious dinner, the men led us in an egg hunt outside. Each egg had adjectives to describe Godly women and we each had to find two of them. To end the evening, the men sang a song they wrote to show their appreciation and love for us as sisters in Christ. Well-done men! We felt very loved!

Paul, Jake, and Alex- three men in our movement.

We’ve got one more day out on the beach…more updates to come! For more photos of the entire conference, check out www.flickr.com and type in "Big Break, Week 4" in the search engine.