Rich's Travels

I’m off to Buenos Aires, Argentina this week for a meeting with the Area of Affairs Campus directors for the worldwide campus ministry (did you catch all of that??).  Basically, those who do the job I used to do when we lived in France.  I will be addressing the issue of how do we use online strategies with tradtional ways of doing campus ministry.  We will be talking about how we can weave those two together.

I think this picture best expresses what I’m going to be talking about.  I took this picture while on my last trip to Jordan.  It is the traditional way of making a carpet in the Middle East.  If you think about a carpet it is a beautiful thing to look at…all those colors and shapes so cleverly and creatively arranged.  It is what we have always strived for in the student ministry world.  One beautiful picture…but how did that picture get there????  Varioius colors are weaved in and out to make one nice carpet.  You have vertical threads and horizontal threads being strategically woven together to make that carpet.  So it should be with the relationship between traditional face to face campus strategies and virtual strategies.  Those strategies need to be interwoven and not separated.  I’ll let you know how it goes!

Ps. Madonna is going to be playing the first night we get there, so that makes the title of this post even more appropriate.  I’ll let you know if I see her!