Greek Prayer Weekend

Although I am a born and raised, summer-lovin' Georgia girl, I must confess that Mississippi's "spring" has made me a little bit weary of the coming summer months! Luckily, the past month has been so busy I haven't had too much time to focus on the season... or lack there of. March brought beautiful/monsoon weather, new small group communities, and the oh-so-treasured spring break week (not to mention the Hunger Games midnight premiere but we will not dive into that one).

However, none of these compare to the amazing things that God has been doing at Southern Miss this past month. For anyone who works with, is a parent to, or has been a college student, you know that being bold in your faith and truly walking as a disciple of Christ on a college campus means you face daily opposition. Which is why witnessing our students do just this has been amazing and such an encouragement to us as staff and as fellow Christians. Let me just tell you about how great our God is and how bold our students are!

Last month, we had a few students travel to Auburn, Alabama, for a weekend of prayer with other Greek leaders in the Southeast. Immediately upon returning from this weekend, two of our students leaders began to voice their vision for a similar weekend here at Southern Miss's campus. After some weeks of planning, preparation and a lot of prayer, our student leaders launched the first Greek Prayer Weekend at USM. Two to three representatives were invited from each fraternity and sorority on campus to join us on Friday night and Saturday morning to learn more about the importance of prayer.

Students spending their Friday night learning how to pray for their greek houses

Predominately lead by Shawn and Paula, with a talk by Andrew and a guest speaker, 20 students were able to spend the weekend learning about the importance of prayer, how to pray for their fraternity house or sorority house, and how to use prayer to impact their greek chapters. In addition, they were able to spend significant time praying individually and corporately for their greek chapters and for their own boldness to pursue making impacts on their chapters while they are here at Southern Miss. Pray for the strength and encouragement for these students as they allow God to use them in their greek chapters!