Yesterday I was on campus helping some students run what we call a proxe station in the school's atrium where many students pass by. A proxe station is an interactive display that is designed to draw attention to itself by it's size and colors in order to engage the student body on a campus with deeper themes than are normally talked about on a day to day basis in a student center. We've done a number of these at MCP over the last two years on topics like "How much of an atheist are you?", "Rate your last relationship," and "What are you here for anyway?"
Yesterday's topic was "Where is God When It Hurts?" in preparation for an outreach event we are having tomorrow. In the midst of this heavy topic a fun moment happened. While we were asking students to take part in this interactive survey, one of the InterVarsity students leaned over to me and remarked, "Liz, this feels so normal now. The first time we did one of these proxe stations I was so nervous, but now it just feels normal." Yes! How incredible that engaging your campus on spiritual and deep topics feels 'normal'. Wow.
- Liz
