If there’s one thing I want you to know about The Gathering, it’s this – we don’t want to be just a worship event on your campus; we’re praying for a movement of college students here in DC.  We believe in the potential of your generation.  We believe even more in the power of God.  We believe in the name of Jesus Christ.  We believe He is the Son of the Living God.  We believe He’s alive today.  He’s offering hope, eternity and rescue to the world.  This good news we call the Gospel is worth sharing.  It is worth sacrificing for.  It is worth suffering for.  It’s worth everything.

Don’t get me wrong.  We love worshipping on campuses!  The phrase “just a worship event” makes me nervous because we were created by God to worship.  Heaven will be one long worship event.  So, I’m not taking anything away from that.  We want to pack out venues on the campuses of DC.  We want to celebrate.  We want to sing.  We want to lift high Christ and the Word of God.  Absolutely!!

But let that worship spill out into the rest of your life.  Invest in friends who don’t yet know Christ.  Share the story of Jesus with them.  Invite them to be a part of this movement with you.  A movement doesn’t happen just because we do events on campus.  A movement happens when those of us who believe in the vision of The Gathering live it out.  It’s your life that makes a movement, not mine.  Your voice, not mine.

Welcome week is the most significant outreach opportunity we get each year.  Give your time, your hands, your voice and your heart to a movement.  Not a movement focused on The Gathering itself; a movement focused on the Risen One who shouts life to the world today.