You know what I think is so awesome about RUF? Its a free group of friends, that you automatically have, no matter who you are or what you do or what you major in. Everyone wants to know you and hang out with you and talk to you. They want to get to know you, invest in you, not for their own gain but for Christ's. We want you to come to RUF, not to grow our own numbers, that would be nice, yes, if we had a hundred people in attendance each week, but what we really want is a solid community. A safe place. A place where we love each other and lean on each other and can be vulnerable with each other.
That's what's so special about RUF being a relational ministry. It really makes the person feel valued, feel wanted. I think that is the most important and most valuable way to look at ministry because it gives the person back their face instead of counting them as a number. That's why I'm so glad that RUF is small. That's why I want to grab and talk to everyone who walks out of RUF on a given Wednesday. Yes, I struggle with that because it's out of my comfort zone, but I really do want you to connect with someone. Have small talk with someone, be loved by someone. Even if it is for 5 minutes.
That's why I miss Mary V and why I wish we had an intern this semester. Because they would make people feel wanted. Because they would have time to make people feel wanted. Me and all the rest of the Ministry team is busy scrambling around our schedules, and we don't always put relationships at the top of our priorities list, which is a character flaw for all of us, but still a hard thing to do in college.
I love RUF, and I'm glad things are going the way their going because I think it is helping us all grow immensly, but it doesn't mean its not hard, and we're not loosing people because of it. I just hope the way we interact with each other and meet new people will help us to sustain ourselves through our transition. I know that RUF national values Baylor RUF and I hope that our Ministry Team can live up to what they need from us. I value Baylor RUF as much if not more than RUF national and I sincerely believe if we keep acting and relating the way we are, we will last through our changing ministry.
I'm so glad I'm in Waco for this last year at Baylor. I miss St Louis and all of me wants to be in Seminary right now, but I know that God has placed me here, in this role for a reason, and I think He is working in me and through me to grow me in maturity and spirtuality to be exactly who He wants me to be.
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