{"id":2650,"date":"2021-03-23T16:46:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T20:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/faculty\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2023-07-18T21:08:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T01:08:09","slug":"the-waitlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/faculty\/2021\/the-waitlist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Waitlist"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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A torrent of conflicting thoughts slammed together in my mind:<\/p>\n

What if this makes other faculty mad and I don\u2019t get tenure? \u2026 I have a family to support.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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As a newly minted Assistant Professor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at a public university, I noticed that we had no required courses about integrating spirituality into our field or even a more general sociocultural foundations course.<\/p>

What if this rubs our administration the wrong way? \u2026 God never tells us that following Jesus would be easy. In fact, He reminds us to \u201ccount the cost.\u201d<\/p>

Really, it came down to one simple question: Was I willing to count the cost and follow Jesus anyway? And by follow I don\u2019t mean as a passive listener but as a doer.<\/p>

\u201cDon\u2019t merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.\u201d \u2013James 1:22 (NIV)<\/p>

So, I asked our administration about creating a Religion, Spirituality, and Sport course.<\/p>

\u201cEven if you get through the red tape, they won\u2019t sign up.\u201d was the initial response.
\u201cIt\u2019s ok, I\u2019ll be glad to fill out the new course proposal paperwork,\u201d I replied.
<\/span>\u201cWell, even if you get the course approved, no one is going to sign up. And you know there is a minimum number of students for a course to \u2018make.\u2019 It probably won\u2019t make.\u201d
<\/span>\u201cI\u2019d like to give it a shot.\u201d
<\/span>\u201cJust send me a draft before you go through the curriculum committee.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>

In reality, the paperwork was not that bad, the administration had no complaints, and the curriculum committee approved the course.<\/span><\/p>

But now I desperately needed students.<\/p>

I emailed academic advisors, student organizations, college ministry contacts, and anyone I thought might be able to make students aware of the new course.<\/p>

As a professor, we can see the number of students registered for a class online and that number stayed far too low day after day. I worried about the class not making it, so I kept promoting it. I even spoke to a college youth group and posted approved flyers around campus. Still too low. I made a promotional video briefly explaining what the course was about. Still too low. Eventually, it came down to the last days before the administration canceled upcoming classes without enough students, and I needed just two more students for the class to make.<\/p>

Only then did I do what I should have started with: fervent prayer. I reluctantly logged in one more time to see if the two more students had registered. No, two more students didn\u2019t register; eight did!<\/p>

Thankfully, the course made that year and every year since. In fact, it now has a waitlist because so many students want to register. Maybe all that time I was worried about the number of students and trying to do everything on my own to reach them, I was on God\u2019s waitlist.<\/p>

Maybe God was just waiting on me to trust Him and pray for His help.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Hal Wilson<\/b>
Health Sciences and Kinesiology
Georgia Southern University<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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