MLK Day 2K16

Today is Martin Luther King Day!

I apologize for the lack of posts the past few weeks, but with the holidays not much really went on, and last week was the first week of classes.

But last week had some major things go on, as did the week before!

For those of you that don't know I have recently moved, again. This time I stayed in the same city, but the church I am partnered with has offered me free housing right across the street from campus. So as of right now I am literally writing this from where I live, which is also the church office, which is awesome. God truly blessed this situation, because when I first talked to my original landlords about it, they said I wasn't able to get out of my lease. But just the day before I talked to them, they received a call from a transfer student looking for a place to rent. They took a look at the apartment, decided it would suit their needs, and took over my lease for me! This opened up my living situation and I was able to move! But I had to be out relatively quick, so Tuesday, the 5th, I ended up getting all of my big stuff out of my apartment. Luckily I'm a part of this fantastic church and was able to get some help pretty quick! Part of the bad news though was that I had to give away my first pet, my cat Altair. But there was a couple here in town that was willing to take him for me, and I think it was a good fit. I hope at least.

As I mentioned earlier, classes started at Penn State last week on Monday. So for most of the week I was on campus, meeting with students, getting ready for Bible studies, making plans, and that fun stuff. Thursday was the spring activities fair, which wasn't all that great. Very few students came through, though I did get to hang out with a couple of ours for a couple hours which was a great time.

Last Sunday I also go to do my first communion meditation ever in a church setting (I don't count communion talks in CSF). From the feed back that I got from people I guess it went pretty well!

This week already is looking pretty filled as well. Today the campus is doing a "Time of Service" for MLK Day which I need to be at. Afterwards some students want to get together and go bowling, which should be a great time! Tuesday of course we have CSF, where we'll be looking at Christian Maturity to prepare ourselves for the upcoming semester where we'll talk about how Christians should act and approach the different social issues which are so prevalent in our culture today. Some of the bigger topics that we'll be discussing of course include racism, sexuality and sexual orientation, and religious fanaticism. But we'll also be looking at topics such as mental illnesses and disabilities, capitalism, violence and self defense, and even attempt to answer the question, "Is America a Christian nation?" Looking forward to this semester and these discussions, I can't help but get excited at what God's going to do.

But that's all from Altoona for right now! Please keep us in your prayers as we go through this semester and try to impact campus in a way that no one else is.