Today is wednesday. Yesterday I met with my two InterVarsity volutneers, Aaron and Kris. We had dinner and then took some time to talk about the upcoming academic year. The vision for UMass is very simple. We want to see witnessing communities formed in campus neighborhoods/dorms all over campus. This may start out with just two or three students studying scripture and praying together and sharing life together. We want to see students living the gospel in the culture that their in. Not to be in some nice happy little cocoon called a fellowship, but to be actively involved and vulnerable with the world around them...people in their dorms and classes, people they care about, people who make them nervous or people they are afraid of. This little family will be a microcosm of God's Kingdom, just an atom of it, but vitally important. When people see God's Kingdom in action and begin to experience it, crazy things happen. The reality of what God wants for us is revealed and unleashed into the world. People start getting saved and things start getting transformed, like families and entire groups of people. The tempest of a lot relationships are calmed and made possible through the saving grace of Jesus. I desire this for UMass. For students to get caught up in the gospel. To go from death to life.