Say won't you Say

Goodbye's to the Staff

Thursday night we had a Last Supper which was our last event with our staff here. It was really fun, each action group got to get up and do a litte skit or a song or say a little something about each staff person. The boys al had pretty funny ones and the girls were all more sentimental and heart felt, as to be expected. Then all of us new action group leaders got up and prayed for each of our staff member we are replacing and that was really cool, kind of a passing of the torch kinda thing. Then our staff all washed the feet of each of their action group members, its such a sweet biblical symbol of servanthood and while I've done it before, everytime it still means so much to me. Then the staff project directors commissioned the new student project directors. It made it very real seeing a physical passing over of responsibilities from staff to students. Our project leaders are so strong and I have compete faith that they will do a great job.

After all that a bunch of us girls headed to starbucks to get our caffine-fix and to be chatty. Lately there have been a lot of project chattering about DTR's that have been happening among students here. First of all, in case you aren't familiar with the term, it means Define the Relationship. This is a common term used among christian singles and esspecially crusade people. So for some reason the last few days people here have felt the need to do this. I understand the idea behind it, but one girl here said it best in saying that it should mean Destroy the Relationship. I just fee like, unless both people are clearly on the same page and feeling the same way about each other, this conversation will do nothing but hurt the friendship and cause lots of awkwardness. One of my roomates had one of these conversations with a boy here and it establish that they were only going to be friends, which is what they were to begin with, but after this conversation the friendship which was building strong and they were both enjoying has begun to change and they are talking and spending less and less time getting to know each other now. So basically these talks do more harm than good in my opinion and I hope I never have to have another one myself.

Now that staff is gone I'm sure I'l have more updates from here in that area of relationships. I anticipate lots of Project hook-ups, which will be hilarious, but inevitable. I'll keep you all posted on that!

posted by Amanda Michelle Morrison @ 1:27 AM