Please pray with us that our new old home can be a place of hospitality and welcome! We are so excited about the opportunities this house gives us to welcome students into our lives and to be a part of the VCU community. We found a beautiful row home three blocks from campus, that was built in 1900. One of the most exciting parts of our move to Richmond is our new - OLD - house. To put it simply, it was an incredible experience that left me energized and excited to get to work at VCU. This was my first staff training with RUF, and I understand now why it is so important - to hear from current and former Campus Ministers and to share in their wisdom and insight is a wonderful blessing. We spent last week in Dallas, TX at RUF's annual July Staff Training - a week of education and encouragement that gathers together all the RUF campus ministers, interns, campus staff and national staff.
Sarah has been running all over the city in preparation for her seventh marathon, and so far Wesley and Mina have loved exploring the Richmond Children's Museum and Maymont Nature center! I have had the opportunity to meet some new students at Summer orientation, and invite them to RUF in the Fall. I also attended my first James River Presbytery meeting where I was able to introduce myself to the pastors and elders of the local churches I'll be working with here in Virginia.
The first month in Richmond has been a whirlwind - getting unpacked, getting to know our Interns Jacob and Hannah, and exploring the city. The more I explore and discover about VCU the more blessed I feel to be called to this work. VCU is such a beautiful and unique campus, filled with the fruits of a world class arts program and rich in diversity. We are here to minister to the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University with Reformed University Fellowship (RUF). On July 1st Sarah and I moved our son, Wesley and daughter, Mina from Doylestown, PA to our new hometown.
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Richmond was full of energy, it was gorgeous, it felt like a place I would like to call home.įive years later that feeling has become a reality. The day I spent exploring Richmond was by far my favorite of her now six marathon days. The day can be salvaged though if you throw yourself into exploration - along with offering your support to the runners you can see a rather large area of the city in one trip. trying to watch the race itself is fairly boring.
If you have never had the pleasure of cheering on a friend or loved one at a marathon, I'll let you in on a little secret. In November of 2014 my wife Sarah ran the Richmond Marathon, and I came to this fair city to cheer her on. I hope that you will continue to support this ministry, and I would love to talk to each of you about the vision of RUF for the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University. My wife, Sarah and I have moved to Richmond with our two children, Wesley and Mina, and our golden retriever named Mac, and we love it here. We are thrilled that the Lord has placed us at VCU and are excited to get to know you, our new partners in ministry.
For the last five years I have worked in Student Ministry at Covenant Presbyterian Church in the Northern suburbs of Philadelphia, PA - the city where I was born and raised. My name is Peter Lyon, and I am succeeding Harrison Ford as the Campus Minister at VCU. I wanted to begin my official first newsletter with an introduction for those of you who have faithfully supported the work of RUF at Virginia Commonwealth University over the past few years. (The following post is from Peter’s August newsletter update.) AN INTRODUCTION
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