Yesterday we had our first University Ministry program of the year. We had our kick off in the Lion’s Den in the freshman dorms. It was an ice cream social with a 50’s theme and SO MUCH FUN!! We had root beer floats, milk shakes, and of course plain ol’ ice cream with toppings. We had oldies music playing with a dance contest at the end of the night. A bunch of the chaplains dressed up in typical 50’s attire - just think Grease (which we also had playing on one of the TVs).

A couple of the girls decided to make poodle skirts. Let me tell you, when you are working on a college student budget you get creative with things like this. I was able to make a pink poodle skirt out of two $1 plastic table cloths from Walmart. I have to say it looked pretty darn good too.

We also had a Pink Lady and Elvis make guest appearances. Fr. Stephan, the Director of University Ministry, dressed up too. I’m not quite sure if he had any one specific person in mind, but he did have a nice leather jacket.

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Hi everyone! I wanted to use my first blog as a way to introduce myself to you all so you could put all my future blogs in some kind of context. My name is Christina Beu. I am a senior Religion major minoring in Ethics. I work on campus as a Student Chaplain. I also lead a SERVE trip, am president of the Religion Honor Society, am part of Samaritans, Imago Dei, Catholic Identity committee, and attempt to have a life outside of all that.

Right now you are probably asking yourself what the heck all that stuff is. I wish there was a simply analogy that could capture what it means to be a chaplain but unfortunately there is not. We are kind of like big brothers/sisters in the residence halls but we also are the ones responsible for all the programming that University Ministry does. SERVE trips are our alternative break trips. Every year our SERVE (Students Engaged in Rewarding Volunteer Experiences) program has trips led by students that go to places all over the USA and internationally. This year we have seven trips for spring break and one summer trip. The Religion Honor Society is pretty self explanatory: an honor society for Religion majors. Samaritans is our service club and Imago Die (Latin for Image of God) is our respect life club. As you can see I’m super involved in lots of ministries and other “Godly” things.

My faith is definitely important to me and I hope it is reflected in all I do but I also like to have fun. I love watching romantic comedy movies, playing volleyball, singing in the shower, going to the beach, getting half-off apps at Applebee’s, etc. You’ll probably find out about a lot of this stuff in my future blogs. Hope you enjoy reading!

Me after a church thing

My mom and I at a Rays baseball game this summer (yes I was a fan before they got good)

My sister and I in Sweden where she lives

Me at the World of Coke in March during our SERVE trip

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