On the Road to Emmaus: Reflections on Fellows

On Tuesday this week, I received an email from Tee (our director) asking if I would write up an email inviting students back into the second semester of Emmaus Fellows. This task has served not only as a welcome opportunity to work on one of our programs, but also as a chance to reflect on the Fellows program and how the Lord has begun to work in and through it — even in just one semester. 

For those of you who may be unfamiliar, Emmaus Fellows is a spiritual formation program at the Study Center that exists to empower students with a biblical and theological education. Fellows is a multi-year program that begins with the overarching story of scripture, inviting students into the grand narrative that God has woven.

We meet seven times a semester on Tuesdays at 201 Brooks Ave, gather over a meal, and engage scripture to discern who God is and what our place is in His story. The ultimate desire of Fellows is that, like the disciples on the road to Emmaus in Luke 24, we might see the face of Jesus and leave with hearts burning within us – that as we open the Word, from Genesis to Revelation, we would encounter the same God whose steadfast love continues to seek us out.

Writing this email and replaying our Fellows meetings from last semester has reminded me of the creator God who invites us into relationship with him. This is the same God that I meet every week as I walk through the front door of the study center. Whether a simple conversation in the kitchen with friends, or through Fellows on Tuesday nights, the God of scripture encounters me in tangible ways.

This is only just a snapshot of what we have been doing in Fellows, but I am deeply grateful to be a part of a community that continually leads students to the feet of Jesus. As we begin a new semester of Emmaus Fellows, I look forward to growing in friendship and seeing how the Lord continues to work in and through us.