Hokie Hi! We hope you get well-oriented as you visit Blacksburg this summer. Be sure to check us out while you’re in town. We’ve got a welcome package we’d love to send yo you so let us know where to send it. Don’t forget to subscribe to our podcast because anybody who thinks they have something worth saying has their own podcast, right?
JR Woodward is coming back to Blacksburg next Sunday to speak at [nlcf]. JR serves on the pastoral team of Kairos Church, located in Hollywood California. He is known around the world for his visionary, inspiring faith and his powerful teaching. Catch up with his thoughts and adventures at www.jrwoodward.net. In addition to his responsibilities at Kairos, JR serves on the Board of Directors for the Ecclesia Network and coaches churches in a variety of settings. However, beyond all this JR is no stranger to [nlcf]. After all, he started [nlcf] almost 20 years ago. His brother Joe and family also attend [nlcf]. Welcome Back JR!
As part of a mass media blitz to enlighten Blacksburg to the way I see things, I’ve taken a summer volunteer columnist position at the Collegiate Times. I hope to brush on issues of faith and life with humor and tact, and perhaps influence people to think for a brief moment about their purpose for existence. Thus far I’ve written the articles Ruthless Corporate Villains, Compassion Should Precede Tragedy, and John Lennon’s Imaginary World. If you feel compelled, write a response to the paper so everyone can know your opinion as well. They usually print everything they get, especially in the summer. If you have an idea for an article (or would like to write a 700 word draft for me), please reply here and let me know. Writing a persuasive essay each week is proving harder than I anticipated!
Jessamyn Losse, member of [nlcf], is responding to the events of 4/16 by creating a “book of hope” to document how we as a VT campus and [nlcf] are responding to what happened. If there is anything that you have been doing personally, or with friends, to process what’s happened, submit it digitally to jlosse at vt dot edu by Sunday May 13th. Responses could include anything from writing a description of how you’ve used your time, journal entries written, songs sung, art created, pictures of being physically active, a way you’ve volunteered. If it’s not digital, let her know and maybe she can help you convert it.
Well-known Christian author and speaker Philip Yancey is coming to speak at our services in Colonial Hall at 10:00a and 11:30a (9:30a and 7:07p are canceled this week). If you are not currently involved in [nlcf] we welcome you to join us for the SECOND service, that will enable more students to be able to come to the first. Free copies of Yancey’s book Where is God When it Hurts will be available afterward.
April 22, 2007 Memorial Service from NLCF | Video Team on Vimeo.
Our Sunday Worship Gathering following the April 22 tragedy at Virginia Tech. We hope these words, music, and images will encourage you that Jesus is close during tragedy.
4.16.2007 Tribute Video from NLCF | Video Team on Vimeo.
We know many have taken up the project of memorializing this event in images and music, but we wanted to make a personalized version to show the hope that we have as [nlcf] in the great cloud of witnesses who are praying for us specifically.
Songs: Mountains High and I Was Blind by Delirious? from the album World Service.
Photos: roanoke.com, nytimes.com, and our extended family of churches!
Josh Deng and vtONE leadership is inviting the Christian community to be united in prayer continuously. Monday through Friday, from noon until about 1pm, at the flagpoles in front of Burruss, they are organizing worship and extended group prayer. If it rains, meet in the chapel. Hope to see you there!
The Passion Worship movement has donated five songs for free download through May at hopeforthehokies.com. Two of them, On Christ the Solid Rock I Stand and You Never Let Go, were sung at [nlcf] on Sunday Apr 22.
Recent [nlcf] alumni Kurtis Parks and Josh Kim have written and recorded a song called “Forever Changed”.
Tanner Blankenship, a musician involved with vtONE, has also written a song to commemorate the fallen called “My Favorite Dream”.
The former Red Cross Building, 130 Jackson St. (directly above Oge-Chi’s) will be open tonight starting at 8pm for prayer. The heat is not yet working but it will be warmer than the drillfield!
