All Kairos BBQ & Bible Study
This past summer’s big announcement of changes within our college department resulted in the creation of three separate college fellowships. Basically, the large Thursday and Friday night groups stayed the same, but a third "experimental" small-group ministry was started: Kairos Fellowship…another Greek word to remember. Four Kairos groups were sent out to make inroads on campus to places we hadn’t reached before. But how? No one really knew. I remember thinking, "Will this work? Will people come?"
Who would have expected that only after half a semester we would have an All-Kairos BBQ and Bible Study with about 70 students? It was a sight to see our sanctuary full of people, eating together, laughing, and listening intently to Pastor Ed’s message. Amazingly, I know some of these students’ stories…some of them rarely came to the 150+ people bible studies, and a few of them were the types who never would’ve stepped into a church let alone even liked Christians, but now those same students are coming regularly to meetings, inviting their friends to Bible Studies, taking Course 101 and seriously seeking and considering Christianity as truth. I wonder where each of these students would be right now if Kairos hadn’t started? How appropriate, I thought, that we named our group “Kairos” since in Greek it means “the right and opportune time” because for many of the students who joined us that night this may perhaps be the most opportune time in their lives to hear the gospel and believe.