Every Wednesday Night at the University of California, San Diego, The Navigators hold a fellowship meeting we call Nav Night. Nav Nights are for believers and non-believers to come fellowship together, study Gods Word, and have fun relating with each other.
The first week for our first meeting, Tim and I lead a study in Acts 2:42-47. We used this passage to look at things our community and fellowship on campus can focus on. Theses things included devoting ourselves to the Word and Prayer, serving the group and others, working as a team, and that ultimately it is the Lord who adds to a community's numbers. We challenged everyone to begin praying for friends in their lives. After our meeting, most of us went and ate together, going to the Price Center (one of the university hangouts) for food on campus. We had a great time of eating and relating together.
As the UCSD Navigators, we are trying to do things a little differently this year. Instead of having our traditional Nav Night meetings every Wednesday, we are having them every other week. On the off weeks we have a service project based off the previous weeks time in the word. We want to be both hearers of the word and also doers. We figured, why not put what we as a ministry are learning and actually go out and apply it.
So, our first Nav Night was on October 1st, and we looked at the passage in Acts 2:42-47. The passage speaks of the community of believers who devoted themselves to the teachings of the apostles, breaking bread together, and praying. In verse 45 the Bible says this, "Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need." Because of this, the next week we decided that as a community of people on campus, both students and staff, we would get together possessions we wanted to give away such as shoes, clothes, and other items and take them down town and give them to the homeless living on the street. 
Along with our possessions, we all got together and made sandwiches and bagged sacked meals for people living on the streets of downtown San Diego. It was a great opportunity to serve people who were in more need than ourselves and help to love these people. Most of the students had not had the opportunity in the past to walk down the sidewalks and talk to people living there. All of the students seemed to have a great opportunity and asked when we will be doing something like it again. So, we will be having another Nav Night this coming Wednesday and the following week we will have some sort of service project in conjunction with what we learn the week before.
