Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Why CCO at WJU?

Joshua HeadHello there! This is Joshua typing today. I am writing right now to let you know why there is a CCO at WJU blog. Basically, I have been keeping my own blog for quite some time now, and after I realized that I get over 200 hits a week on my blog, I thought "Why not have a blog that people can visit just to hear about my ministry here at WJU?" Instead of just making this blog about me, and what I'm doing, I want it to be about what the CCO is doing here at WJU. I really hope to get posts updated at least weekly on here so you can stay in touch with things here at Wheeling Jesuit University. My hope is that Karen, Rachel and I will all be able to write posts from time to time so that you can hear about everything that's going on here at WJU.

So, keep posted. This is how we're helping to Transform College Students to Transform the World here at WJU.
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Student Interview

Christopher McPherson

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What is one big change you have seen in your life since you started college?
Um… that I have found the activities that I really enjoy such as theater, service activities... that’s probably the biggest change. And that I like to do things like singing-I joined the choir since I got here. Mostly I’d say the activities that I enjoy that I did not do in high school.

What has been the best experience for you in college?
Best experience? Wow. The service trip. Service trips in general, but I’d say the most rewarding experience was the trips I made to Mississippi and New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina relief.

What would you say is the biggest struggle facing college students today?
Biggest struggle would be the pressures to fit in to the college stereotype of drinking, staying up all hours of the night, and just making unhealthy decisions.

What is one way in which your faith has grown since you started college?
I have become more active in prayer-my own prayer. I'm taking time whenever I’m able to and just sitting down and meditating and praying. And doing a lot of self awareness activities to see wehre I am in my faith life and where I can go.

How do you plan on working your faith into your career when you leave WJU?
Well. Seeing as I don’t know exactly what uh career path I’m going to go on, I’m not sure I can specifically work an answer in. But generally I’ll try to be a model for the people I work with who maybe are struggling with their own faith life and maybe help to point them in a direction where they can be more knowledgeable and grow in their faith.

How would you sum up the ministry of the CCO?
What’s your tagline? Transforming college students to transform the world? Pretty much sums it up right there. What are you writing? I didn’t say anything!