TCX: Housing Woe - Be Gone!

TCX has come and gone - another 1500 college students packed into the downtown Minneapolis Hilton, hungry to learn more about God and his plan for their lives. We train, challenge, encourage, equip and admonish these students, with the hope that they will become spiritual multipliers for the rest of their lives, not just during their college years.

I'm continually amazed at what God chooses to do in the lives of college students. He works so intricately, so fine-tuned and detailed, so that his plans are orchestrated perfectly. And he does this in the lives of everyone...at the same time. Incredibly mind-blowing!

There are some great stories on the TCX blog (shout-out to my awesome roommate for working so diligently to capture what God's doing during and after the conference!). You can also watch video testimonies of students, and even see some of the main ballroom sessions broadcast over our livestream feed.

If you poke around a little, you'll even see yours truly on the blog, giving a quick explanation of my direct role in TCX. Talk about God orchestrating things perfectly...on Sunday night, in the middle of our conference, we ran out of hotel rooms. The Hilton was 100% booked up. But by the grace of God, we only had a few students show up to register and we could fill up the rooms that had empty spots.

The next day was New Years' Eve - always a popular night for the downtown hotels. I briefly talked through scenarios with a coworkers - what would we do if we still didn't have any rooms today? Could we work out the same contracted rate we have with the Hilton, with another hotel nearby? And what if those specific hotels don't have any vacancies??"

The Hilton did run out of rooms again on December 31 - and we had about 6 students, a mix of male and female, show up that afternoon asking for a room. But, we had a few guests that were scheduled to stay the night of the 31st who were no longer needing their rooms. Our 6 students fit perfectly into those two rooms.

I was pretty anxious about the housing situation all week ("who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?" (Matthew 6:27)) - but no need to worry -- especially for a problem that didn't even exist.

[This is the first in a series of posts about TCX, our annual student conference for the Upper Midwest Region of Cru. How many posts in this series, you ask? Time will tell].