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Campus Ministry hosts Worship Night
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April 13, 2023Worship brought me back to work on my faith. I used to lock into my room and start worshiping God with my headphones because I never had anyone else I could share it with. But always with that desire in my heart of being able to meet more people, and find a community where everyone shares that same love for Him. God for some reason put the dream in my heart. When I came to Fredericton, I took this job as Campus Ministry Assistant, and at the beginning, I thought it would be such a big responsibility to me. It looked scary, but I could not take out that feeling and dream from my heart, so I decided to take this jump of faith. In this process, how divided this world has become more evident and probably this is a bizarre dream, but I could only imagine how one day we can get together, despite our denominations and be one. And instead of looking at what makes us different, seeing what we have in common; like the love of God, and recognizing we have more things to admire from each other and to learn. During the pandemic, when I found myself distant from God, it was through music that he filled my heart with the Holy Spirit and made me feel I’m not alone. I believe that music is a universal language, so I started thinking why I don’t put together a worship night, where we can sing together and open our hearts to God? God brought me here and made me meet all these people. I put the call to some students at St.Thomas University and UNB and we got together, and started worshiping and rehearsing. I'm never going to forget our first night rehearsing, I had never felt like that night before. The Holy Spirit filled that room with grace. I felt it in my heart and I came to that night carrying a lot on my shoulders, but I left with peace in my heart and joy. I wanted to scream how amazing God it is. It felt like I was washed and renewed by the Holy Spirit. During rehearsal, it was also a process of learning. We learned to speak aloud what is in our hearts. As a Catholic, saying my prayers aloud is still something challenging. But having the chance to sing them, and say what is in my heart aloud, made me feel free. There were nights we felt down or we didn’t feel God was working on us, but he works uniquely, and he taught us that even when you don’t feel his working, he never stops doing it. He is always there. We sent letters to different churches, put up posters around the city and let him work. Finally, on the night of the concert it was amazing to see how the room was packed. People from different parts of the city, many denominations, and ages came to worship God. Memorial Hall became a safe place to express our love for God. That night we were one.
My advice would be that there is no dream small or big that God can not make true. God listens to you. Some prayers will take time and even when you don’t feel or see he is working, he is. You have to be patient because he will answer the prayers in your heart. You just need to accept him in your heart and talk to him. God is like a father, and the only way to get to talk to him is by being like a kid - if you feel like taking your shoes off, singing or dancing, do it. God as a father already knows what it is in your heart, but he is there waiting with arms open for you to talk to him, even when he already knows what you will say. He is a gentleman, he will wait for you. And when a man takes a step towards God, God will take a million more toward the man. So many people can say that they believe in God or they pray to Him, but it is different from opening your heart to him. When you do that and place Him in everything you do, he becomes the centre of your life, and you start worshiping with your life. He is just waiting for you to accept him into your life and once you do, you won’t believe how your life can change. He fills you with blessing, with love, and everything starts making sense.
