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Psalm 139 has become a tradition for women on campus The Psalm 139 event started four years ago as the brainchild of Sydney (Stolz) Pfleeger ’19, who was a student at the time, to bring women together in worship. What started out that first year as a one-day event with a few dozen participants has grown to a two-day event with almost 200 students attending this year. “The idea is to bring women together in community and fellowship with time to learn and worship and meet other girls,” said Ashleigh Thompson, who co-directed this year’s event with Jordan McCaslin and Caroline Zinnecker. The directors were selected by last year’s directors, and as soon as they were chosen last spring, they began preparing and praying over the event. Together, they prayerfully picked students to serve in five committees for outreach, logistics, hospitality, prayer, and media. 18
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“This summer, we prayed and reflected over the event, thinking, ‘what do we want this to be? What’s our heart behind this?’ We talked about our hope and vision for the event,” said Faith Jermstad, who was part of the media committee. This year’s organizers drew inspiration from part of Psalm 139:23, “Search me, oh God, and know my heart.” “We wanted to learn together as women how we can go and live in our calling and ask the Lord to walk with us,” Faith said. To get things rolling, the organizers created a Partner Program to match up those who were planning to attend the event so that women could begin connecting even before that weekend. “The goal was to meet up and talk about things in your life and start conversations and encouragement leading up to Psalm 139,” said Ashleigh. “That was
