May 9th Campus Workday

May the 9th was Second Saturday. One of the options for serving was helping the Campus Operations Teams get the outside of the campus ready for Spring and Summer. We try to do our best to show the community around us Jesus and this includes the campus itself. The way we present ourselves or the campus, I believe directly correlates to what we believe about our God.

Our God is majestic, beautiful, mighty, yet sensitive. He is knows no boundaries. He is without measure. He is also a God of order. These are just a few of His attributes that can be seen in nature through our campus.

On this Saturday, it was around 50 degrees outside with winds blowing 25-35 mph. It would lightly sprinkle and looked like at anytime it would pour down rain, but this didn't dampen the spirit. Everyone pitched in and accomplished a great number of tasks. It was also a great day for getting to know each other and building community.

Philippians 2:1-11 is a great passage relating to why we serve:

If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross!

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.