How far we’ve come and how far there still is to go.

It’s hard to believe that this time a year ago, I was a little over a month into my Freshman year. Done with my first wave of midterms, recovering from my first college sickness, and fully immersed in the small group, large group, weekend event, Sunday service (hopefully) rotation of CFC. Heck, even at the beginning of this year, I was still writing “Freshman” on the activity sign up sheets.

Recently, I came across this video that really took me back to my first days as a Freshman. I think I saw this video at the “How to Survive” event CFC put on at Lincoln Hall, which was held the night after the first day of classes. I even friended the creator of the video, Michael Chang, on Facebook. You can check out his work at bluevisionuiuc.

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5 seconds to eternity.

This past weekend, my church, CFC, held its annual mini-olympics. We’re the biggest church on campus with about a thousand people and seeing everyone from all dorms, ages, and ethnicities (primarily Asian or Pacific islander) compete and cheer each other on was awesome to see. We were so animated that I even saw a caucasian girl from the neighboring soccer game take out her camera phone videotape us. The body of Christ was in full force, even with the frigid weather and obnoxious rain. And even though the competitions consisted of crab walks, hula-hooping, and solving 3rd grade math problems, it was still pretty intense. Still, we knew that from start to finish, God was the only true victor.

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