Seth Hedman

Wow! April was a really fun month.  I got to see a lot of fruit on campus, have great interactions with students, and really start to settle into my role as a staff and raising partners.  The month was not without challenges though, including a nose surgery that sidelined me for a full week.  Two major highlights stick out with a couple minor points. Free Relays Taxi!!!! In response to reading the book Radical by David Platt, our InterVarsity leadership group got together last Spring and discussed how we might live out that book by radically serving our campus.  We came up with the idea to give free taxi rides home to students during Drake Relays, a big party week on campus.  We were a little worried about logistics and how students would respond... but it went amazing! We gave over 500 rides over three days and had nothing but ecstatic responses!

Our parents spent 18 years preparing us for the world. Now that we're on our own, we do what we want, often to our doom. Our early years in our parent's house were spent learning a lot of do's and don't, a lot of life lessons, and a lot of cliches we rolled our eyes at.  Usually our teenage years we feel like we are under the heavy boot of Big Brother and can't wait to get out the house. College, for many, is the first time we are on our own away from home and our parent's edicts, so we respond by basically complete rebellion against everything they've ever taught us.  Here's compelling proof that during College we do the exact opposite of what our parents told us to. 1)  "Don't make faces like that or it will get stuck" In an effort to rebel against our parent's ban on making faces, these girls have resorted to looking like aquatic birds for aesthetic reasons. The plus side is they're really good at eating spaghetti.  M...

Looking Back At An Amazing Month of God's Faithfulness I started off the month of February, despite the cold  and snowy weather, burning with excitement. I had just graduated in December and I was beginning my first semester working with InterVarsity. I could not have been more thrilled to be giving my time to students, fundraising, and seeing God's kingdom come on Drake's campus.  And it's been an amazing month!  I finally had my official interview with intervarsity, gave an unexpected talk at our weekly large group, and have been taking big steps to becoming a fully fundraised, full time campus missionary! Going back into the last week of January, let's look at some of the highlights: Student leader Cara Lutes setting vision at the Back To School Retreat Interview and Placement In the last week of January, I finally had my official interview with InterVarsity.  At a Panera out in West Des Moines, I sat with five (thats right, five!) interviewers from ca...

Football is Fun My first memory of football is hanging out next to my brother's practices, a field tucked deep into the fall pine forests of Derry, New Hampshire.  It was right by a little round-a-bout with a baseball card store.  If you ventured far enough out into the woods away from the field, you would come upon a quiet lake. But you could never actually see it.  Whenever you would get just close enough to smell and hear the water, it would get drowned out by the yells from mom to come back.  I got a lot of poison ivy in those woods, playing catch with a green and yellow Brett Favre football I had found one day.  The dead pine needles that blanketed the ground during fall gave the whole place a mystical feeling.  It was there, playing for the Youngsville Hawks, between the trees and near the water, that I fell in love with football. At that time I was just finishing being home schooled and I was a year young for my grade but taller than everyone...