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4/4/2022, 11:00am

Presidential fellows announce "Wonder" event

Renewal planned for April 7-8

By Kyla Russell
Presidential fellows announce "Wonder" event
Nirup Alphonse will speak at the three-session event.

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The Wonder 2022 conference is a student-created event hoping to revitalize Taylor's spiritual lives.

Using their leadership status, the Presidential Fellows plan to host this spiritual event on campus. 

The event is set for April 7-8, with the first session at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday in Rediger Chapel. The team will host Pastor Nirup Alphonse, lead pastor at Lifegate Church in Denver, Colorado. Additionally, Alphonse’s church worship team will join him by leading worship. 

The two nights will be broken up into three separate sessions.

Senior Noah Huseman is one of the Presidential Fellows planning the event, along with the additional fellows, seniors Sawyer Watterson and Ela Alvarado along with junior Mariah Hurst.

“Our mission is to create space for God to impress, invigorate and inspire our campus community to seek out the Kingdom of God here on earth, on our campus, in our dorms,” said Huseman. “It is going to be amazing.”

Planning for this event began in October 2021 and was inspired by a sense that students may need a fresh view on the wonder of God.

“God has been moving to bring this together for much longer than that …” Huseman said. “The idea which kept coming back around was this renewed and spirited wonder of God.”

Through prayer and reflection, the team settled on Acts 2:40-46 as their theme passage for the nights, with a particular emphasis on Acts 2:43. 

“Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles,” Acts 2:43 says in the New International Version.

In preparation for the event, the fellows are asking that students immerse themselves in prayer.

“We invite you to join us in prayer to our only God, in community and led by the Spirit,” Alvarado said on the Wonder 2022 Instagram page.

Although Wonder 2022 is only set for this April, the team hopes the occasion might make lasting change and become a more regular happening. 

“I cannot speak for tomorrow, next week, or next year,” Huseman said. “I would absolutely love it — I would be thrilled — if this were to become a yearly event. I think it could transform our campus. What we really want out of this event is to find the lasting impact that an encounter with God has on your life, and we want that for each and every student on this campus. We want students to be thinking about this, remembering what God did, how God showed up that night in early April for months and years to come. We want every student to experience Wonder at the beautiful, infinite, incredible, awesome presence of our God.”

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