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At the beginning of the Spring 2010 semester, my fraternity brother Johnny came to the Servant Leadership Retreat a few days before classes started up. Johnny had become a Christian in October when we had attended Greek Conference in SoCal. He was my first fraternity brother to give over his life to Christ. It was a privilege to be able to see God do such a life changing work, but it wasn’t until the leaders retreat that I saw an incredible change in his heart.

I invited him to the retreat the day of because I thought he wouldn’t want to come, but another one of the leaders said I should at least ask him. I did and he was ecstatic to come. So, clearly I was wrong. We stayed overnight at a cabin and started manuscript study the next morning. Throughout the day, I saw Johnny catch onto the vision that our staff leader, Alyssa Humphries, was giving us for the coming semester. She was saying how in Ephesians 3:20, that God can do immeasurably more than we could ever ask or imagine. At that, I started to see Johnny’s heart catch fire for Christ. He was excited to see what God was going to do in our fraternity and in our Greek System.

Towards the end of the night, we wrote a covenant that had some pretty challenging things on it, one of them being not drinking if you were underage and getting drunk. Johnny had a hard time with this, but later after we had all left he called one of the other leaders and me to tell us how he was struggling with this but wanted to follow the passion that Christ had put in his heart. After praying with him over the phone, Johnny made the commitment to God that he would not drink this semester.

To this day, has held to the covenant and has followed the conviction that God placed in his life. Now, he is on our Servant Leadership Team for Fall 2010. It has truly been a blessing to see God work in his heart and see him develop his as a Christian leader in our fraternity and in Greek IV.