October: The illustrated edition!

I realize it's definitely no longer October (it is actually COLD here!), but I thought I'd give a photographic representation of some of what MTSU RUF did last month!

Over our fall break, we went to St. Louis for a missions trip. Here's the illustrated edition of that story. :)

On Friday, we loaded up a 12-passenger van, and there were 12 of us. We got close!

We met with New City Fellowship (PCA) and played with kids (mainly children of African refugees) in a downtown neighborhood all day Saturday!

On Saturday night, we went out for dinner and walked around. These are all the girls on the trip!

Sunday after church, we visited the arch and the St. Louis Zoo! Taylor & I were freaked out by this Black Mamba.

On Monday, we visited with Covenant Theological Seminary, and attended two classes. Here, Rob and I were getting ready to listen to Jerram Barrs! (And yes, he was awesome.)

We also brought back RWF this year — that stands for RUF Wrestling Federation! We had a guys bracket and girls bracket. Participants had to enter with a wrestler name (some examples: "The Lumberjack," "Rumble Bee," "Fashionably Undead," "Dora the Explorer," and "The Italian") and a costume to go with the name. Participants were assigned to a bracket and "wrestled" each other — first, they did Indian leg wrestling, then they proceeded to the arm wrestling table. In the event of a tie (if one student won the Indian leg wrestling, but the other won the arm wrestling), the final event was thumb wrestling. Sounds crazy, but the event was a hit!

Our campus minister Paul was the referee!

Jerrica and Marie preparing to arm wrestle.

Julian and Aaron thumb wrestling for the guys championship!

Rob with our winners! (We had a girls champ, guys champ, and costume/dance off champ.) One of our students made these great wrestling championship belts!

And there you have it — a good part of our October in photos!