Every year our local weekly newspaper puts out a special "Back To School" issue welcoming back university students. They select some of the places around town they think students would be interested in and write up descriptions to let them what is in town. I just read this sitting in a restaurant and saw that they put our church in the list of 3 churches in the "Christianity" section. The "Christianity" list was placed right above the "Pagan/Occult" one. Not sure of their description of the "pastor" they wrote, but did find it encouraging that we were described as crushing stereotypes. That is one of our hopes in building trust in our town and with the university. And our coffeehouse "The Abbey" was also written up in this issue with a little description by them too. The university just started classes again last week. This Sunday we have a college info. meeting Sunday night and our college ministry kicks off the week after. We did a survey in May of this year and our church is comprised of 37% college students which makes it a wondrous challenge and so glad they are part of the church.
