Daniel and Intoxication

Over the last two weekends, students came together from all over the place. The first weekend conference was at Young Life's Rockbridge Camp, which has become to be known as a small paradise among Tech students. Schools from all over western Virginia sent students to Winter Conference 2006, where we studied the life of Daniel. The main speaker challenged our world view to recognize that we are in exile here on Earth just as Daniel was in exile in Babylon. We are longing to go home, and our only hope is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Daniel and friends changed the world by staying faithful to God in a pagan culture, and we were challenged to do the same on our campuses. Conference number 2 was a sligthly different atmosphere. Imagine 200+ fraternity and sorority students from VA, NC, SC, Florida, Michigan, Massachusetts, Georgia, and Delaware coming to the same hotel for a weekend. But imagine them coming together to worship God, grow in their faith, and learn to share the gospel to their brothers and sisters in their houses. That was the atmosphere at Intoxicating: Greek Conference 2006. The main speaker talked about how a life with Jesus was intoxicating, full of exhiliration and excitement. I helped out by leading a small group of students in the basics of following Christ: how to study the Bible, how to spend time with God, how to pray. It was a great weekend to witness how God is renewing the fraternities and sororities that have been labeled as hopeless in the past.


Tech students during a small group discussion time at Winter Conference 2006.

It snowed the entire time that we were there, but that didn't prevent the annual football game during free time.


Tech students (Ana, Stevie, and Kira) and I get a picture at Greek Conference 2006. We were the first Hokies ever to venture to this annual conference in Charlotte, NC.