Growth. It’s a natural occurrence in life. When you’re a kid, you can’t wait to get bigger. Then when you’re bigger, you wonder why you ever wanted to grow up.

Interestingly enough, ministry can be much the same way.

When we started this ministry, we had a vision to grow in our size and influence on campus. We couldn’t wait to get bigger. But now that we’ve grown, there are certain aspects of our small ministry of yesteryear that we miss.

Don’t get me wrong—we are very excited about what God has done here at UC Davis in just a little over 3 years.

In our wildest dreams, we did not imagine that we would have nearly 200 students in Bible studies, which are being led by over 20 students. We didn’t envision over 100 students at our Fall Retreat and nearly 100 freshman in Bible studies.

The excitement that many of our students have for evangelism and for reaching the lost around the world has surpassed our limited expectations.

We are certainly blown away by God and his faithfulness. We feel blessed to have been a part of this wild ministry ride at UC Davis.

However, our rapid growth has given us new challenges to overcome.

How do we maintain a sense of community with such a large group?

How do we make sure that new students understand our vision and our mission?

How can we continue to motivate and build into our leaders at the same time we are trying to reach out to new people?

How can we minister to all the new people at the same time that our staff resources are shrinking due to our new family situation?

These are just some of the questions we’re attempting to answer. We don’t know the answers yet, but we’re determined to see how God will provide solutions to our growing pains so that we can take this ministry to the next level.

Please pray with us and for us as we continue to lead this “growing” ministry.

Having an “Epic” Time