Steve's cool vision for Adventist youth

What a cool day (see previous post for more of this cool day).

STEVE
Steve (pseudonym) used to go here at Southwestern. I didn't really know him that well. We were more like acquaintances instead of friends. But he seemed like a cool guy. Anyways, I see him after the Friday night program and we start chatting. I ask him about his job since we both graduated with business degrees. He's at Houston working for a loan company. And he tells me of one of his job offers that he was about to accept. However, this company was going to make him work on Sabbath. And he struggled with that decision. He even thought about donating the money from his Sabbath work. But he finally decided to not to take that job and God blessed him with his current job.

Now, that decision in itself is awesome. But it gets better. Since he doesn't work on Sabbath, he's helping out with his local church. He's church leader over the youth. And he's encouraging them to go to Southwestern. In fact, one of his youth members is coming to Southwestern this weekend to check out the campus and the people.

He's got a cool vision for his youth group. He's has some of friends at Southwestern that will come back and live in Houston and help out with the youth group. And he hopes that with his and his friends' influence, people in his youth group will attend Southwestern.

It's a pretty cool cycle. Go to an Adventist college. Grow in Christ. Graduate. Go back and serve in the local church. Encourage the youth in the church to go to an Adventist college. Those youth go to an Adventist college. And the cycle repeats.

I bet this cycle would help keep Adventist young people in the church.

dee