Things are about to go nuts here at Mizzou. 7000 freshmen will begin pouring onto campus this week and we at The Rock will do a lot to try and reach them. Move-In Week creates so many opportunities for us to gather back together as a church, consider the new wave of students coming in and join in mission to do some heavy outreach as the new school year gets started.
Vision Night
We begin with Vision Night - an opportunity to reconnect as a church and dream about where the Lord might be taking our church this year. We roll out new outreach plans, goals for the year and train our students for what we will be doing the next couple weeks.
Survey Tables
For three days straight, from 9am-4pm, we will set up a tent and pass out over 5000 icee pops (currently stored in various freezers, including our own) while we get 2200 students to fill out our Spiritual Interest Surveys.
Follow Ups
From there, we follow up with these students personally. I conduct a Welcome to Mizzou email, letting them know about events we have for the first couple of weeks. Each community group will send people out in pairs to visit the people who showed interest, about a couple hundred people in all. These visits are crucial for us, allowing us to meet freshmen early on, build friendships and invite them to our first few events.
Kick-Off Service
After various BBQs, dorm hangouts and games of ultimate Frisbee, we'll have our kick-off service. This year, we will begin looking at various encounters with Jesus throughout the gospels, asking students to consider what an encounter with Jesus might look like for them and to interpret what he might be trying to share with them as they begin a new school year.
Please be praying for these events! We can't wait to get started!
