I love Greensboro! There are all kinds of fun stores and restaurants. I can hear at least 4 different languages being spoken at my neighborhood Starbucks. There are tons of college campuses, and I get to spend time with some amazing students. But, Greensboro just might have the worst drivers in the universe!
Let me share my driving experience from this morning. I was leaving Chick-fil-a (yay free breakfast coupons) and heading back to my house with my friend Lisa. We turned right onto a side road so I could turn left at the stoplight onto the main road to get back home. In the left-most left turn lane, there was a van sitting still at least 5 car lengths back from the “stopping line” for the light. As I pulled up behind the line of traffic in the other left turn lane, I said, “What are they doing?”
And they proceeded to show me the answer! Now, we’re on one side of a divided road - the lanes only go one way. The driver could’ve pulled up to the light, waited approximately one minute and made a U-turn completely legally. But no! They backed up, did a 3-point-turn in the lane behind me and proceeded to go in the other direction (the WRONG direction), so they could turn into Bojangle’s. Poor person coming down the road in the correct direction as this was occurring!
Really? Really! If only I had the power to revoke their right to drive!
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I am writing this during halftime of the 2nd game of the Final Four. I’m pretty sure I’ve watched the Final Four and the championship game all of the last 20 years. I’m from North Carolina. I grew up in a Duke house. I went to Wake Forest. And I never cheer for UNC (it’s really more of a distaste for their annoying fans - the ones who have absolutely no connection to the school - but that’s another topic all together). All that to say that I was basically predestined to enjoy college basketball. And that is an expectation I can live up to.
However, being as I’ve been in a philosophical mood today, I was thinking more deeply about my relationship with college basketball. Around the age of 10 was when I first started really watching games. It was 1990 - the first year Duke won the NCAA. I thought those guys were so cool - they were older and athletic and I just assumed they were wonderful. In high school, basketball was one of the only things I really enjoyed - both college ball on TV and working with the athletic department at my high school. It was an awkward time and basketball was a bit of an escape, even though I wasn’t actually talented enough to play. Then, I got to college and I was in school with those same guys I had watched play on TV. Needless to say, I was a bit starstruck! Just ask any of the ladies who lived on my hall during my freshman year. I was part of the “Screamin’ Deacons,” the student cheering group, all 4 years, and think I may have missed 2 home games during that time period. And I had a few classes with some players, which was neat.
Post-college, I was lucky enough to have a friend with season tickets to the Wake games who invited me along quite a bit during those first few years. Then, I started working for Crusade, my schedule got weird, I moved to Greensboro, and basketball became less feasible in my schedule. And today, I looked at those players and see them as “kids.” That’s kind of weird because I spend lots of time with students who are the same age as these players and I don’t see them as kids (at least not most of the time). In fact, most of the time I don’t feel that far removed from them (unless we talk about something that happened in the 80s which I remember and during which they weren’t even born). And I realized that I’m closer in age to the Butler coach (he’s 33 and pretty attractive), than those players. Oh boy!
Oh yeah, “Go Duke!”
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As you may know, the overall mission of Campus Crusade for Christ can be summed up as “Win, Build, Send.” The campus ministry desires to win students to Christ, build them up in their faith, and send them into the world to do the same. In line with that mission, I have been leading a small group at UNCG about these core values. We have focused greatly on the “win” aspect and discussed a variety of methods for sharing Christ with someone.
One week, the ladies who are part of the small group planned their own outreach. They chose to combine a door-to-door prayer strategy in one of the largest freshmen dorms on campus with a pancake party as a way to serve those same dorm residents. So, last Monday, the ladies and some guys involved with our ministry gathered together and attempted to visit all the residents in this particular dorm. We were able to have some great conversations with students! Some shared ways that we could lift them up in prayer, others wanted to know more about Cru on the campus and how to get involved, and all college students enjoy free food, so they were excited about the pancakes!
On Tuesday night, the girls and I snuck out of our weekly meeting on campus and headed back over to the same dorm. We started making pancakes - 1 person making batter, 3 people cooking, and lots of Cru students mingling with those who came out to have some pancakes. It was an awesome way to share Christ’s love with students, as well as give them an opportunity to hear the Gospel (win) and/or get plugged into a Christian community (build). And I believe it’s a sign of the Lord sparking a desire in the students who planned and carried out the event to walk with Him for a lifetime (send).
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