Sophomore Tiffany Metts is working to bring Delight Ministries — a nonprofit women’s college ministry — to Harding’s campus this coming fall.
According to Metts, Delight Ministries was started at Belmont University by three students at the end of their freshman year of college in the fall of 2012. What started as a small Bible study in a matter of weeks grew to around 100 women. The ministry has spread to more than 40 college campuses across the nation and continues to grow.
According to Delight’s website, the organization aims to foster a community of women that grow together, serve together, learn together and do life together while chasing the heart of God. The website also says that “Delight was created as a platform for college women to not only share their stories, but also as a place to allow God to write stories more beautiful than we could ever even fathom.”
Metts discovered Delight after talking to a friend who started a chapter of the nonprofit at the University of Missouri.
“I visited over spring break and attended a leadership meeting,” Metts said. “I saw the impact it made to so many women at a state school, and it made me start to think about how much impact it could have here.”
Metts said a Harding chapter would be beneficial to both the student body and the university as a whole.
“Delight would be a great addition to Harding because it is a place where everyone would be welcome, despite what year you are or whether or not you’re in a social club,” Metts said. “Harding is a wonderful place to grow as a Christian, but when you’re constantly surrounded by that atmosphere, it’s very easy to become numb to it all. My hope for Delight is that it can help women on this campus with that issue that’s so often not talked about.”
Metts and a few of her friends are working with the Delight headquarters and are in the middle stages of getting the ministry started on Harding’s campus. According to Metts, the women have to get Delight approved by administration in order for it to be an official Harding organization.
The only problem Metts believes the group could run into is that Delight is a non-denominational organization. She said they are continuing to work out logistics.
According to sophomore Sarah Creeley, who is working alongside Metts to bring Delight to campus, the deans have said that the worst case scenario would be that Delight would have to be held off campus. Metts said that in this case, it would be held at the KLife house on Main Street.
“Having it on campus would provide much easier access for the girls looking to be involved though,” Creeley said.
Sophomore Keslee Dunavin is also looking forward to the ministry making its way to Searcy and invites everyone to try it out. Dunavin said she believes it will give women at Harding a chance to get to know each other on a more intimate level.
“(Delight Ministries) will allow ladies to meet and grow with others they would’ve otherwise never met,” Dunavin said.
For more information on Delight Ministries visit, www.delightministries.com or contact Tiffany Metts at tiffanydawnm@gmail.com.
