One day when I was in high school, my father, who was the pastor of my church, took me out to a restaurant for lunch. A little girl from our church was eating with her grandmother at the same restaurant and saw my father and me together. She asked her grandmother, “Grammy, is Sara having lunch with Jesus today?” In […]
I almost never walk by The Palms Grille or through the Commons without seeing a group of friends gathered around a table with a cake and brightly colored balloons. Many PCC students go out of the way to make their friends’ birthdays special with balloons, cake and ice cream, and small, thoughtful gifts. On my birthday last month, a friend […]
Several hundred PCC students congregated in the Sports Center on an icy Tuesday evening. They gathered around the large screen used for showing events that interest many people, such as World Series games or presidential debates. Every chair in the viewing area was filled, and many students stood at the back of the room or sat on the floor to […]
“I will never forget that day!” What day came to mind when you read that sentence? Each of us could name several days in our lives that we know we will never forget. As college students, we are in the time of life when so many of those days--graduation, engagement, marriage--often come. But between the few days that we will […]
College students constantly find themselves listening - in chapel, in class, in prayer group, and in church services. Last semester, Pastor Denis McBride preached a challenging chapel message about our relationship and walk with God. As God reminded me of what I had heard over the next several days, I was so glad that I had listened to the message […]