Tampa Update

This morning I got to talk to Jeff Lee, the campus minister I'll be working with at USF. It was so good to be able to call on a normal phone with no 7 hour time difference to wrestle! As a result, I have an update on USF life: there are already freshmen on campus! That's right! Can you believe it? Jeff said that they have about half of the freshmen class come and live on campus during the "Summer B" term, and that's when lots of students make friends, get plugged in to activities if they can find them, and learn their way around the campus. Summer B started yesterday, and all of the participating students live in the same dorm on campus to foster some good community building. This year, Jeff and some current students are out meeting students and welcoming them to Tampa, though I can't say that the weather is doing the same. Here's a pretty current picture of a roadway that's right over the water (pretty far from the USF campus, but still in Tampa!)

Yikes! This is a land where umbrellas are completely useless. Anyway, you can join me in praying that Jeff and the other RUF students are able to really meet and encourage some new students over the next few weeks (as well as that the weather stays tame.) They will be having a large group meeting tomorrow night as well, and since this is the first summer to try this, there's no telling what the turn out will be! It's wonderful to hear about USF and how things are already picking up, and it makes me all the more eager to get down there and start meeting some students. So here we go! Join me in praying that RUF will get off to a good start to the coming school year, even in June. :)