Hello from Boston!
It has been a whirlwind around the Catholic Center here at Northeastern over the last week. As students begin to settle into their class schedules and I settle into my own routine here, I want to take a moment to celebrate what God has done during welcome week here in Boston! Throughout training, many returning SPO missionaries and staff stressed the importance of reaching new students during welcome week, they also stressed how crazy busy and exhausting it would be to go to event after event, welcoming students and making sure they felt seen and loved. I was nervous about welcome week before I landed in Boston. As an introvert, it sounded like too great a feat. Perhaps on my own it would have been, but I quickly found what it would take to make it through this week - grace. Welcome week grace was so real! For every tabling event, every new person, every conversation over another Catholic Center event promoted with “free food”, I was strengthened and excited. Me… excited about large groups and new people and mingling?! It could only have been grace, and I am so grateful for it. I am grateful for the grace that allowed me to meet with so many freshman, to encourage them and let them know that it was normal they were feeling overwhelmed. I am grateful for the grace that allowed me to persist when someone passed the Catholic Center table and walked away from what I was offering with a simple, “I’m an atheist”. I am grateful for the grace that allowed me to get up and pray for the women I was meeting by name. I am grateful for the grace that allowed me to remember those names. I am grateful for welcome week grace, and I am so excited it is only the beginning of what God has in store this year! It is such a privilege to be here and get to know the students here in Boston. I have a few prayer requests for supporters:
Thank you for your support and prayers! In Jesus through Mary, Katie
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