A thing called humility

So last night was the big project dinner--the Agape dinner--where the staff steps down from leadership and hands down the duties to the new student leaders. It was a crazy emotional night (having to say goodbye to my bible study leader, and just nervousness about becoming one of the few student directors), but it was great! We had a big dinner on the floor of the church gym, seperated into our bible studies. It was supposed to imitate the feeding of the 5000--we passed family style trays of different foods to one another. Then after a lot of worship and sharing, we had a candlight ceremony in which the staff leaders lit my candle as well as the other three student directors candles and then we lit the rest of the students. Then the staff blew their candles out and proceeded to leave the gym. At that moment, as the door slammed shut behind them there was a split second of complete silence--and then EVERYONE turned around and stared at the four of us! It was so intimidating and made everything that much more real! But after we talked a little bit about Phillipians 2 and the section about humility--how we need to be servants to one another and imitators of Christ. Then we had all of the bible study leaders come up and washed their feet. Then after we prayed with them we had them go back to their bible study and wash their feet. I had never done anything like that before and it was such a cool experience. It is very humbling and really set the tone for the rest of the summer!
While it is going to be a bit of an adjustment to not have staff here to direct us--not to mention having to take on that position!--I know that it will make me depend on God that much more and I am so excited for Him to stretch me in so many new ways!!