Fools for Christ

Today Flannery and I made it to campus for the Racer extravaganza! We joined Zach and our two other teammates at Murray State's Student Org fair. It was a 'slow' event you could say. We had high hopes of getting a lot of people to sign up for bible studies, but there just wasn't much traffic. Even though circumstances weren't ideal we made the best of it and still met a few new faces!

Zach and Sarah showing their Catholic Racer pride!

The team had donned their 'Catholic Racers' shirts so everyone knew what we were about. Since Catholics are pretty rare in this area, you can imagine our surprise when we saw a freshman guy wearing a 'Catholic Racers' t-shirt across the room. Zach didn't notice him until he was a ways away so he hurried over to him, assuming the shirt was a big BULLSEYE for a bible study sign up. After Zach "broke a sweat trying to catch him" (his description of the ordeal) the young man was reluctant to hold a conversation, and was not interested in bible study, he said he just goes to Mass Saturday night. We were all looking at Zach hopefully as he returned- glistening in the sunlight. He told us of the less than exciting news and then turned to me, wiping his brow, and said "so we're going to Mass Saturday night, honey!". I couldn't help looking at my disheveled husband and remembering St. Paul's words:
"We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now as the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things. I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. I urge you, then, be imitators of me" - 1Corinthians 4:10-16

Flannery of course was a big hit, and naturally the best evangelist of all of us. She spent the day showing off her bow and sundress to all the students.

She really hit it off with the students manning the Girl Scout table. Which was great because as I was talking to them I noticed one of them was wearing a medal of Our Lady of Guadalupe! YES! Foot in the door! Her name is Shelby, she's Catholic but hasn't been too involved in her faith. Pray for her and that I'll be able to run into her again and introduce her to the person of Jesus Christ! We met a few others today that we would love for you to keep in your prayers: Lindsey, Olivia, and Taylor. And obviously our mysterious Catholic Racer t-shirt guy- pray that we can have a good encounter with him on Saturday!

That's our update for today! We're off to change a diaper!


-Meghan and Flannery