Welcome to Campus!

Freshman arrive today! We had our Leadership Retreat over the past 2 days and over 70 student leaders came to campus early! We are gearing up for the freshman outreach. Here is the schedule over the next week: 

Thursday: Survey Table in the Student Center to invite freshmen to fill out surveys about their spirituality and enter to win $100 Chipotle gift card! We'll Also be playing Ultimate Frisbee on campus this afternoon. I remember the first day I was in Fort Collins I played this game that was like football but with a frisbee. Incredible outreach tool!

Friday: We'll continue with the survey table and frisbee outreach. In the evening we'll have our 10th Annual Spaghetti Dinner where we feed over 250 students! We'll also have our drawing for the Chipotle giftcard.

Saturday: This is our big sports outreach day. We'll have plenty of frisbee going on w/ basketball, sand volleyball and football! This is very attractive to freshmen and is how we get lots of students to join on ministry. In the evening we'll bike to downtown Fort Collins from campus to enjoy ice-cream with some new students. 

Sunday: In the evening we'll do our survey follow up. Many of our student leaders will be calling students who filled out our surveys and meeting them in the dorms. We have Navigators draw string bags filled with New Testaments, info cards and lots of goodies. This is great to meet freshmen and have them feel welcomed by upperclassmen. 

Monday: We continue our Frisbee outreach and follow up on student's that we didn't reach the night before. 

Tuesday: We kick off our freshmen ministry night: NavBasic. We will have an Ice Cream Social that is for freshmen. We give them free ice cream sundaes and get to know them better and invite them to sign up for a bible study. Last year I remember playing frisbee in the afternoon and walking over to the ice cream social with 30+ students.

Wednesday: We will have our first Nav Night of the semester. They are typically on Friday nights but CSU scheduling conflicts forced us to have it on Wednesday for the first 2 weeks. Nav Night is the front door of the Navigators because this is where many students interact with us for the first time. We have all of our students come together for worship, fellowship, and speaker and time in the Word.  I'm the Nav Night "Director" this year and very excited to be creative with the evening. We will have pizza before the event and expect to have around 500 students for the first Nav Night of the semester. 

Wow, big week ahead and I'm excited to see God move and bring in the students who want to grow in their faith. Please be praying for this week and the incoming freshmen.