Bring on the Spring

After a great Christmas at Virginia Beach with my family, it's time to get back in the swing of the things here at Tech. The students started their spring semester this week, and the new Vision Team arrived a few days early to go on a retreat. Last weekend, the new Vision Team and I met to get to know each other more, pray for the campus and chapter, and seek the Lord about His plans for Virginia Tech. While waiting for one student to arrive, we introduced each other (Radford's team was with us) and then continued to wait awkwardly for the final member. Then, the best thing that could have happened happened. All the power went out. I don't know about you, but when I was a kid, I always loved it when the lights went out during a storm. We gathered all of our flashlights, and our new chapter president impressed us by starting a fire with some empty Kroger bags. We had a great time in community, sharing meals together, praying the psalms, planning for the semester, and playing a few games (i.e. an intense game of Signs; Full Contact Spoons) One of the highlights of the weekend was discussing and deciding to implement a long term strategy in which we can intensively focus on all our of Core Commitments over the course of four years. I will inform you more about that in detail later.

Here are few pictures from the break:


Christmas with my family.



Relaxing during the break with a cowboy hat and dog slippers.



A Tech student and Radford student get caught cheating by the "Game Warden" during a game of Spoons at Vision Team Retreat.



Introducing the 2006 Virginia Tech Vision Team



If we were a band, this would be our album cover.