God Poured Himself Out On "The Concrete Quad" @ Diablo Valley College

(Updated v2.0): Pleasant Hill, CA. I've seen amazing things happen this fall at Diablo Valley College near our home. God burdened my heart to rally college pastors, campus ministers, and students we knew to come out to DVC’s Quad the first week of classes to fellowship, join a Facebook social-networking website, …and to pray!!! What began on DVC’s concrete Quad back in September has become a beautiful story of God at work in a very difficult campus situation. “Community college is an oxymoron”. Students only have brief hangout times w/ former high school friends and then rush off campus to work or go home. One student lamented, “an unspoken expectation at DVC is –when a class you’ve taken together over, so are the friendships”.

I continued to pray and prayerwalked the Quad during the semester and asked others to join me. God began to move. CCC@DVC’s Facebook group has swelled to 92 members as of November 30th. Friendships began to form and flourish everywhere. The G3 I planted on the Quad has grown to six men –all from different ethnicities and walks of life. Two women's G3's led by sophomores Laura & Lisa have formed and are growing. Margee mentors them and loves being back on campus. One women's Bible Study got planted off campus and several tastefully done outreaches happened on the Quad. One DVC student caught a vision to reach out to the "street racing" subculture that exists in our area. An official campus club was chartered called "DVC United” http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19788842272 which desires to promote unity and help other Christian groups get started. And, 3 major events happened the last week of November!!! (a unity rally, film outreach, and an international student dinner).

Since this semester began with prayer out on the Quad, to close out the semester I led the men in my G3 to pray for God to keep pouring out His Spirit on their campus. As I took one last prayer walk around the Quad I prayed for all the beautiful students hanging out there and reflected on all the great things the Lord has done in their midst: “Thank you Jesus for everything, especially for leading us to gather together and pray out here on this concrete Quad. Thank you Holy Spirit for pouring your life into these students and drawing so many of them to you. Thank you Father for bringing true Community to this community college. Amen.”