You’re a college student, and you’ve been in lockdown for over a year during the pandemic. As it becomes safe to meet in-person again, your campus minister gathers you and other students for in-person training on topics like justice and evangelism. Then she asks you to put what you learned into practice by inviting your non-Christian friends to join a self-care GIG (Group Investigating God).
This is exactly what happened at the University of Wisconsin (UW)–Madison in the spring of 2021 as Ministry Team Leader Brittany Pedersen prepped her students for the return to in-person ministry. If anyone got a friend to agree to explore a story about Jesus related to self-care, she would show up anytime anywhere with any takeout food they wanted.
One student leader, Isla, was initially skeptical. “I’ll invite my friends,” she said, “but they’re just going to say yes because of free food.”
Read more of this story at: https://intervarsity.org/blog/self-care-leads-community-uw-madison