RA Training

This past week has been the real beginning of the new semester (which officially doesn’t begin for another week). The campus has been quiet all summer with only a few students living on campus and only a few small classes being taught. This past weekend several students arrived, with most of them coming for the RA training sessions conducted by our PIU Student Life team led by Rob Watt. Our Resident Assistants are students who work with our Deans to take care of our students, disciple and lead them. This year one focus of the team is to have the students take more responsibility for their own lives and for serving and discipling one another. This week the RA’s discussed school rules and procedures, leadership principles, counseling and biblical principles of discipline and responsibility so that they can take leadership in the dormitories this year. We have a good group of student leaders this year and I am excited about the potential for what God will accomplish in our students this semester.

One aspect of the training is to have the student leadership team meet each evening for dinner at the house of one the faculty members. Thursday night the team met at our house for barbecued chicken and ribs (Yea!). We shared with them a little bit about the history of the school so that they would understand how much has been invested in their lives and education. I think they were motivated to make the same investment in the students who will be coming later this week and into the future of the school. I really enjoy having the students back and am looking forward to seeing the whole group come in this coming weekend!