After a summer full of mission trips, internships and ministry experiences, the Center for Global Missions is offering students a place to reflect on those experiences – the Go Retreat.
“The GO Retreat is for those who’ve gone and for those who want to go,” Center for Global Missions Director Ben Langford said.
Started in 2012, the Global Outreach Retreat sets aside a weekend every fall for students to reflect and share experiences.
However, it is not exclusive to those who have gone, the GO Retreat also welcomes students who are interested in doing mission work.
“There are lots of students who have these experiences over the summer, and you come back from usually kind of a mountaintop experience — although it’s not always that exactly,” Langford said. “It’s hard to find people that can connect. You meet other people that have had similar experiences, and you reflect those experiences because they’re likely to understand.”
Langford said besides hearing students’ mission stories, he also enjoys a new tradition that began last year at the retreat.
“Last year we started this tradition of dodge ball,” Langford said. “And it is an awesome game of dodge ball. The Refuge, an inner-city mission, provides bottled water and bottled root beer. It’s pretty fun.”
Speaking at the Retreat is Richard Beck, Abilene Christian University’s head of Psychology.
“He’s a guy that’s taking his discipline and thinking about God within his discipline,” Langford said. “So as a psychologist, ‘how would I think about God and what he’s doing in the world through the window of psychology?’”
Beck is the face of the award winning blog Experimental Psychology, and has written several books including “The Slavery of Death.”
Langford said Beck takes scripture and looks at it through different lenses, and students can look at scripture through the lense of their major as well.
“I wonder how we think about business in scripture, I wonder how we think about English literature in scripture, I wonder how we think about engineering in scripture,” Langford said. “… Scripture is not just for Bible majors, it’s for everyone.”
Beck will speak at Oklahoma Christian University on Thursday at 7 p.m. in Scott Chapel. Beck will lecture on his book “The Slavery of Death.”
The retreat begins Friday evening and ends Saturday; students will come back to their regular campus housing at night.
Sign-ups for the GO Retreat are outside of the cafeteria after chapel until 1 p.m. The retreat is held downtown at The Refuge, but shuttles to and from Oklahoma Christian will be available. The cost is $20, and sign-ups are through Friday.
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