CU Official

As important as the CU Patron is to the spiritual development of the students on campus, there is another group that may be more important, the CU officials. The CU officials are a group of students that oversee the activities of the Christian Union. They are responsible for the weekly meeting of the CU fellowship, prayer meetings, and Bible studies. If you are a CU official at a boarding school, you are also responsible for Sunday service. When I say responsible, I mean completely responsible with no adult supervision! For all practical purposes, they are the pastors for their student body. I got to meet with some CU Officials yesterday and I was blown away by their maturity and the seriousness with which they see their calling. The students I talked with met every morning for prayer before school and everyday at lunch to discuss issues and problems of their fellow students. At the end of this term they will select new CU officials for the upcoming school year. On a visit to a school in February, I asked them how they pick new CU officials and they told me they start with a week of prayer and fasting before they pick their new leaders! I could not help but think about what an impact a group of students with this kind of commitment to God and to their classmates could have in America.