Where the Heart is.

This is where my heart is. Or at least, one of the place I keep my heart.
This is Reach. You've heard me mention, I know you have. This is the drama ministry I co-lead.

First off, for those of you who don't know what exactly Reach does, we're an outreach ministry. We make skits dealing with issues that teens are currently struggling with. Our topics range from self esteem, peer pressure, alcohol, and physical relationships to pornography, cutting and depression. We off course also throw in a few light-hearted skits in our shows to keep our audiences from feeling completely devastated at the end of shows...

And I love the skits, I love the performances, I love the outreach. This is where my heart is, my heart is in reaching out to teens, saying hey, I know you're struggling with this, I've struggled too. Its okay. That is my passion.

But I have to admit, the best part of Reach is definitely the members.
Four of the five people I consider my best friends on campus are in Reach. And everyone whose in Reach that I don't give that label to still are people I trust with my struggles. These people are genuine, caring and unique. We're all broken but we're all striving to be better, working to serve God, seeking His will. The people in Reach are open with each other in a way I never expected. At the beginning of the year, we went on a retreat where we told life stories and it all came out: our successes, our failures, our pain and burdens...

When it came time to sign up for classes, my adviser couldn't understand why I didn't want to study abroad. But to me it made perfect sense... I couldn't bear to leave campus for a semester because that would mean missing Reach. And that would mean giving up a piece of my heart.

Wow, that sounds so cheesy. If only you could understand what these people have done for me, how this ministry has allowed me to grow. If only you could know. But the only way you could ever even come close to doing that is if you joined next year... so why don't you?