Community

In the beginning of the year, I had a sort of resentment towards going to Intervarsity every week. There was no point in going to large group every Monday if they were simply going to reiterate the gospel to me for the 28967104819th time in my life for the newcomers who were nonexistent. Yet, I constantly saw the same people go to IV every week and never understood why.

Lately at IV, we’ve been talking about family and how our group of students that make up IV at Northeastern is our family on campus. When we have any troubles, we open up to other brothers and sisters in hopes that they would encourage us and/or help us out. After a few more weeks of banging this material into our heads (which is a great topic i’m not gonna lie), it’s finally pushed through to my understanding of what IV truly is.

I now know why these people constantly show up every week. It’s not that they’re there to hear the gospel for the umteenth time in their life. It’s because the people in IV are family. We go so that we are able to fellowship with other Christians so that we may continue living as Christians and loving God. We go so that we have a sense of community and family-like values.

It’s only my second month here at Northeastern and I feel like I’ve known everybody at Intervarsity for years now. I feel like I’m so much closer to everybody in the group, whereas on the first day, I didn’t know anybody’s names. It feels so good to know that we’re connected not just by religion but by simple commonalities like longboarding or photography. The IV family is so open and loving and I’m glad that I can always go to an older sister or brother for advice on things like finding a church here in Boston or even how to pass my next orgo test. I’ve found my family here in Boston: my support, my friends, my community.