Greek IV at Indiana University has had some rough seas. First of all, it isn’t exactly the easiest of Greek systems to start ministry in. 5,500 super Greeks who are consistently on the top of the party scene nationally. On top of its hostile climate, the IU Greek IV chapter has been recovering for about three years from doing community a little too well. At some point in its past IU Greek IV’s focus turned inwards to the core members rather than outwards to the masses of spiritually starved Greeks. Everyone had a great time and really made some great friends, but the balance between being in the world but not of it was partially lost. Three years ago staff began working on changing this focus back towards the need in the houses. These efforts produced minimal growth but good culture change. With this change came a consistent pleading to God for lost Greeks. The result was a spontaneous explosion.

IU’s weekly gathering commonly had between 10 and 20 students from six different houses. At the first meeting of this semester we were expecting about this many students. In fact we only set up about 20 chairs so the room would feel filled no matter what happened. In all honesty the Leadership Team and myself had done minimal extra recruitment for this event because we wanted it to be a gathering of our core members. We intended to present to them a vision that would compel them to take action in their houses thus multiplying my and the Leadership Teams impact. As the clock struck 8:30 I looked around the room and was stunned to see flocks of Greeks. I say flocks because we all know that Greeks travel in packs. We actually had to set up 20 more chairs to get everyone a seat and even then we were busting at the seams. When it was all said and done we had 43 Greeks come to our small call out meeting!

There were 11 houses represented! At the start of this year I wasn’t very sure whether our chapter was poised to grow or poised to stagnate. Clearly that question has been answered. In my limited experience in ministry I have found that God has a surprising way of moving. Often He acts unexpectedly allowing us to know what was clearly God breathed. I know that this growth may be an anomaly, but for now I rejoice that God has acted. I rejoice that He is far better at this work than I am, and I rejoice because the word is out, God wants to know Greeks.

The Greek IV story was shared by Brandt Booram Author Website: http://greekiv.org Author Email: Contact Author Author Bio: Brandt is a campus staff worker with Greek InterVarsity at the University of Illinois. More Stories by Brandt Booram

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