Why Union is Amazing

Sabbath school has been a new and interesting experience. We do a different format it is an active christianity jump off point. Where we brainstorm and make differences. ONe of the things that we have done is raise money for our fellow in students in need and people in our community. We have had 4 Sabbaths and have raised so much money for our fellow brothers and sisters, I am so amazed. However it just hasn't stuck with Sabbath School it has been put in practice throughout the college.

THe most amazing part though is last night during vespers the college chaplain introduced one of the students and explained what situation he was in. Seth is from Ghana and is able to study here from a scholarship. However his mom needs heart surgery and there is no money to pay for it and he doesn't know he is going to come up with it. He needed about $4000 to do pay for the surgury. So Pastor Rich asked if a couple people could come up and lay there hands on Seth as Pastor Rich prayed for for Seth. About 25 kids came up and supported Seth and we prayed for him. THen after prayer one of our professors Chris Blake said 'pass a hat around'. It was kinda interesting because you never think that you would here taht during friday night vespers. THen all the cowboy hats, baseball hats came off and those who had them became deacons and we took up an offering. At the end of vespers we had $2300 for Seth's mom it was amazing.

During Sabbath School this morning during our own money ministries time Pastor Rich came up and told us of God's blessings. A student, I am going to emphasize STUDENT, came up to him and gave him a check for $1000 because the student realized that Seth's mom needed it more then he did. Other students also came up giving checks of $100 and $200 how amazing is that?

We raised $4300 dollars for Seth's mom, in less than 24 hours. God always takes care of us. Union is a place where we are family and we take care of eachother. There is no other place like this one. THis is place where when once dark times turn to light because we help eachother and care for one another. I am just so amazed that union can be that place where people allow God to work through them. I don't want to give it up ever.