Lunch Laughes by Asia Frye

The Wesley Foundation started a new fellowship group this semester called Lunch Laughs. Students gather Fridays at noon to eat lunch in the cafeteria together. Friday is an excellent day because it allows freshmen to use their excess meals from the week to buy lunch for upperclassmen. It has really created an atmosphere for old and new students to get to know each other. Over lunch students share their funny experiences from the week and laugh together. Lunch Laughs has averaged about 15 students a week and has been a great way to end the week in fellowship together.

Frosh at Wesley by Asia Frye

This semester has been very successful for Frosh, our Freshman group. Frosh tries to be a place to welcome freshman to university life, be a starting place to get them involved at Wesley, and generally serve the unique needs of first semester freshmen. This semester at Frosh we have been using the format: fellowship, game, praise and worship, then lesson. This model allows a lot of flexibility and is very open to new students and people at various stages in their walk. The Frosh lessons have been based on this semester’s cell group curriculum and have focused on problem areas college students face in their faith. Some examples are time management, apathy, and excessiveness. Frosh also had several fellowship nights. One night they went to Frosh Leader Jesse Sandlin’s home for a hotdog roast and campfire. On Thursday, Nov. 30, they will decorate the building for Christmas, listen to Christmas songs, and enjoy Christmas goodies together. We have had more freshmen involved in Frosh this year than ever before and those freshmen have been more consistent. They have quickly stepped into leadership roles such as planning the homecoming spirit dance and have gotten plugged into all areas of Wesley’s ministry. We do not lead a group specifically for freshmen in the spring, but anticipate these freshmen entering our cell groups and joining our leadership team.