The Mission of the Leadership Team
When I first came to Wesley I was an angry and broken freshman. I was afraid to trust anyone after the hurt I had been through and I didn’t believe that anyone in the world cared about anyone else. Not really, not actually anyway. But when I walked up to the Wesley for the first time alone and nervous, I think seven different people talked to me before I even got in the door. I was shocked and honestly a little overwhelmed, but I felt like these people who didn’t know me at all actually wanted me to be there.
It was the most inviting group of people I had ever encountered and it was truly peculiar in an almost breathtaking way. I was invited to an engage group and had three hangouts planned before I left that night. It changed my life to be pursued by a community of believers. I grew up in the church and had still never experienced anything like this.
What we have is special. It’s a gift. And we are meant to share it. By joining leadership you are committing to presenting the gift of Christ’s presence to any and all you encounter. It takes a lot of time and hard work and willingness to serve, but it is incredibly fulfilling to bring people in from the outside and watch them flourish. There is nothing that we do as a ministry that is more important than this. We are a campus ministry it is our purpose to reach out to the students here. To the new ones and the old ones.
Being on leadership means learning to serve with a cheerful heart, a lot of the time the work isn’t fun, but the result is, the friendships we build are, the walk we help each other along is. Being on leadership means stepping out of what is comfortable and into a new and intimidating position. It’s vulnerable and you’re going to face rejection, whether it be a firm no to your invitation to the well or just someone completely ignoring your attempts to speak to them. If your on leadership you’re going to be one of “those” people, who are always pestering you at lunch and on the way to class and texting you invites to random events you’ve never heard of and it’s a reputation that we can all learn to be proud of.
Persistence is key.
Dedication is key.
Commitment is key.
Most importantly being on leadership means being for others what the people who brought you into the community were for you, a path to the love and acceptance of Jesus.
About the Author:
Laura Cason is an intern at the Wesley Foundation this year. She graduated in Biology from Louisiana Tech in the spring. She loves comfy sweaters, good music, coffee and literature, preferably all together.