OCBP

This most recent school year I got involved with a Christian group on campus called Liberti.  Through Liberti God gave me so many amazing friends, and  now am truly content with being at IUP for the next few years.  I have found a purpose, so to speak, with still being in Indiana by being involved with Liberti.  It is a group that has seen incredible growth in this past year alone, and we are only expecting it to continue growing at this pace.  In one of the meetings during this spring semester, our staff leader Ivan made an announcement about a program called the Ocean City Beach Project and I immediately felt my heart start to race a little bit.  So that night, I went home and looked up more information concerning the project.  The Ocean City Beach Project, or OCBP for short, is a CCO run program to train college students to become better leaders so that they are able to take those skills and leave a more significant impact on their campus.  Liberti is also a CCO organization.  CCO stands for Coalition for Christian Outreach, and they have partnered with Graystone Presbyterian Church in Indiana to reach the IUP community.  The CCO is a Pittsburgh based organization that places adult leaders at campuses throughout the north east, it also puts together the Jubilee conference as well as other conferences and summer programs all for college students. Anyways, I applied for OCBP, went through the interview process, and received my acceptance a few weeks later and now I am here!  I have accepted a leadership position at Liberti starting this year, and so this leadership development opportunity I have this summer has come at the perfect time!


As many of you know, last summer I spent a month in what I now consider to be my African home of Ghana.  During that time I wished to keep a blog, but due to the internet (or lack of internet) situation I was unable to do that.  Now being at OCBP I have wanted to keep a blog, but my schedule is so hectic that even keeping in contact with my immediate family is difficult!   This is a general layout of my weekly schedule:

• Every day, besides Saturday, we eat dinner together at 5:30.
• Monday there is House Worship 7-8 pm, and then Bible Study from 8-9 pm with our cook/clean team. 
• Tuesday we have class from  7-10 pm and the topic varies per week.  Each week there is a different speaker that has a specific focus.  
• Wednesday is an Optional Activity day after dinner.  Some weeks we have had support raising, game night, mandatory outside time, or a class led by our speaker of the week.
• Thursday is another 7-10 pm class night led by the speaker. My cook/clean/Bible Study team cooks for the house on Thursdays too.
• Friday, after dinner, my cook/clean/Bible Study team cleans up after dinner and then there is house clean. up.  
• Saturday is a free day, but I work around 10-13 hours so it doesn't feel like much of a free day to me!
• Sunday we all attend church together and then have a mandatory Sabath day of rest.  The house comes back together at 5:30 for dinner, we also have a house meeting and a Gospel in Life group which focuses on a series that Tim Keller has put together.
• During the week I also meet in a triad with one other female student and staff member where we go through A Gospel Centered Life together.  

 

There is so much more I could tell you, but this is already long enough!  I am still support raising, I have $1,170 left to raise to be fully supported.  Your prayers are greatly appreciated, and if you feel led to support me financially you can find donation information at  http://www.ccojubilee.org/donate/ways-to-donate/ or contact me personally!  I can't wait to share all that God has been teaching me during this time!  Thank you everyone!