Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! I hope that you all had a wonderful break full of time with friends and family! We were able to spend some quality time with both sides of our families as well as some friends. Our break was very restful and we are so glad to be back at Wesley with the staff and students.

Before heading to Athens to start work for the semester, we had a staff retreat in Atlanta. The directors go back on Wednesday for some planning and catching up and the interns come on Thursday. It is always so great to reconnect with the staff and cast vision for the second semester. One of the things that Bob has on his heart for this second semester is Awakening. It is the theme of our first three weeks of services.  It is exciting to see what the Lord is already doing through the vision that he has given Bob. Our goal is to be outwardly focused this semester to impact the campus and bring them to community.

Looking Forward....

This semester will hold many opportunities for us. We will be leading a trip to Jamaica in March with the Wesley's Freshmen Ministry. We are so excited about this mission trip. We truly have an exceptional group of students and leaders going on this trip. This trip is specifically designed for our freshmen students and the freshmen student leaders. It is a way for them to build a strong community with each other as well as serve in another country. We are looking forward to the things we will get to do in the community of St. Anns. We are going to be doing everything from manual labor, painting, and VBS with the children. We have already started having meetings and it is such a joy to watch the trip come together.

We have a few different Women's events this semester. We will have a Bunco Tournament at our house. If you don't know what Bunco is, you should seriously check it out! We also will have our annual Women's Retreat in February. Please be praying for our retreat, the girls coming, and Annie Downs, our speaker. I am very excited about the weekend and all the Lord has in store for us!

Please be in prayer for us as we start a new semester at Wesley. We believe that the Lord is going to do SO MUCH this semester and we can't wait!