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Christian Focus Week: Serving Behind the Scenes
January 01, 2020
The past two years I have been blessed to be apart of the Christian Focus Week Leadership
team. CFW is a special week because it is a week that as a whole campus we come together
and devote time to worship God. Classes are cancelled so that everyone has an opportunity
to be there.
Being on the leadership team, I have the opportunity to help plan out the week and
serve the campus. We typically will meet up before the spring semester is over and
start discussing ideas for the next year. We spend a lot of time praying about the
direction that God would have us go with the week and we usually take time in the
summer to think and pray more about the theme. Then, first thing in the fall, we meet
up as a team and finalize the theme and exactly what we want the week to look like.
This is where we begin to discuss bands, speakers, and what we want to do for breakout
sessions. We continue to work throughout the semester finalizing all of the details
of the week and then it becomes time for us to finally have the week.
Pulling off CFW is a lot of hard work. We have tons of jobs that have to get done.
Each person has their own jobs that they have to do throughout the week and we try
to work it to where each person is doing a job that they feel comfortable with and
are skilled at. For instance, I got the opportunity to be in charge of all the sound
and technology needs for the week. This could be something as big as setting up an
entire sound system for arts and worship coffeehouse or something as simple as making
sure the speaker’s mic had batteries in it.
I am so blessed to be apart of this team and to have this great opportunity to serve
this campus and share the love of Christ with others. There are times when it is not
very glamorous, but that’s not what being a servant is about. Being a servant means
being willing to put the needs of others before yourself, and that’s exactly what
we do on the leadership team. We put the needs of others before ourselves and we go
and be the hands and feet of Jesus.
By Jordan Cecil, senior Christian Studies major
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