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 Some colleges and universities are on Spring Break this week and the rest will go next week or the week after.  I love the time from Spring Break until school is out for a variety of reasons.

One reason I love this time is the weather is good, students' attitudes are better and the flu season is over.  Students are out and about more and the population seems to double. But, one of the things I love is, It is time to try it!  What is IT?  It is that thing you have always wanted to do, but just did not feel you could.

The most likely is experimenting with your large group worship event:

-You can try a different time.

-You can try a different night.

-You can try a different place.

-You can try a whole different format.

I am not saying to necessarily try all of those.  Just the one or two that you Want or Need to try.

Each year I tell the story of our having outgrown the small space where we were having our Lunch Program adjacent to the kitchen because of the necessity of serving there, etc.  The only larger option was up two different sets of steps.  Students would have to be served and then carry their food up those two different sets of steps to the larger meeting area.  I knew it would not work!  But, we tried it one time shortly before school was out, just to prove it would not work.  It worked beautifully.  We made the change the following fall and our Lunch Program began to grow again.

I do not guarantee that your experiment will meet with success or bring growth.  It might fail miserably, but that tells you something.  Or, it might give you an even better idea.

It does not have to be about your large group worship event.  What is one experiment you need to try?  After Spring Break is the perfect time to try it.  Maybe your students have always wanted to do it and you in your infinite College Minister wisdom have said NO!!  So, now is your chance to show them how right you were......What if they are right??

Trying it now allows you to make adjustments for the fall, if the experiment so warrants a change in something.

THINK HARD, what is something you ought to try?

"Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?  I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert."  Isaiah 43:19 (ESV)

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