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Where Fellowship Becomes Family.
Welcome to the heart of campus life.

Here, students and the OLP Campus Family gather to laugh, learn, encourage one another, and practice doing life together with Jesus.Whether you're joining a Student Appreciation Day celebration, listening to Porch Soul™, enjoying a family cookout, sitting at Mother O's table, visiting Auntie PHAT outside the Student Center, or grabbing popcorn while talking with Auntie ReRe and Auntie Phee...There's always room for you here.Pull out a chair.You're family now.

Student Appreciation Day is underway. 🤎Come on through.

Auntie PHAT: “HEYYYY, Sugaaaa! Welcome to Student Appreciation Day! 👋🏾”Student: “Hey Auntie PHAT!”Auntie PHAT: “You eaten yet?”Student: “Not yet!”Auntie PHAT: “Well what you waiting on?! UNC got BBQ, the Pit got food, Mother O' got coffee—and apparently free Wi-Fi done become a MINISTRY!” 😂😂😂Students laugh as she starts pulling away.Auntie PHAT: “Enjoy yourself, Suga! And remember—this time, try it with Jesus! ❤️”Student: “We knowww, Auntie PHAT!” 😂Auntie PHAT: “GOOD! Then Auntie ain't wasting her gas!” 🛺💨😂

UNC: “Now see, that's your problem right there. You done made a whole decision and ain't asked Jesus OR nobody with good sense.” 😂Student: “Unc, I knew you were gonna say that.”UNC: “Then why you come over here asking me, nephew?”The table breaks into laughter.Student: “Because I needed somebody to tell me the truth.”UNC: “Nah. You already knew the truth. You needed somewhere safe enough to say it out loud.”The laughter settles a little.UNC: “Now... what you gonna do with what you know?”

While waiting for that nephew to answer, UNC sees another nephew he talked to last week and continued checking in...

UNC: “Yo, nephew! You turn in that report like you said you would?”Student: “Yes, sir.”UNC: “Grades come back yet?”Student: “Not yet.”UNC: “Aight. But you followed through with what you said you were gonna do. I got a burger back here for you—on me.”Student: “For real?” 😂UNC: “Yeah, for real. Go get your burger. And don't forget your napkins!” 😂Student: “Thank you, Unc!”UNC: “Mmhmm. Keep doing what you say you're gonna do, nephew.”

Student: “Auntie Plush... how do you know when you're being patient and when you're just wasting time?”Auntie Plush: “Ooooh. Now why you wanna mess up a perfectly good Paint & Sit asking me something like that?” 😂The table laughs.Student: “I'm serious!” 😂Auntie Plush: “I know you are, baby.”She dips her brush back into the paint.Auntie Plush: “Patience ain't doing nothing. Sometimes patience got plenty to do.”Student: “Like what?”Auntie Plush: “Like what you're doing right now.”Student: “Painting?”Auntie Plush: “Mmhmm. You can't make that paint dry faster because you're ready for the next layer.”The student looks down at her canvas.Auntie Plush: “But while it's drying, you can clean your brush. Mix your next color. Decide where you're going next. Talk to Jesus about what you're trying to rush Him through...” 👀Student and another: “Oop.” 😂Auntie Plush: “Don't ‘oop’ me. You asked!” 😂😂The whole table cracks up.Auntie Plush: “Baby, waiting and wasting time ain't always the same thing. Ask Jesus what you're supposed to be doing while you wait.”Student: “Okay... I needed that.”Auntie Plush: “Good. Now leave that flower alone before you paint it to death.” 😂🎨

Student: “Mother O', I'm not even gonna lie. Your Wi-Fi is better than the Wi-Fi at Residential.” 😂Mother O': “Baby, I know. That's why y'all been sitting in here half the day nursing one cup of coffee.”Student: “See! Why you watching us?” 😂Mother O': “I ain't watching you. I'm watching my cups!” 😂☕The table breaks into laughter.Another Student: “But I like it here. Nobody bothers you. You can just... sit.”Mother O': “Mmhmm. That's intentional, baby.”Student: “Sometimes I don't even come for coffee. I just don't wanna go straight home yet.”Mother O': “Then don't. Sit awhile. You don't owe anybody a conversation just because you walked through my door.”The student smiles and looks back at her laptop.Mother O': “But if the day comes when you do need to talk, you can ask me anything. And if I don't know the answer, I'm not gonna sit here and make one up.”Student: “So what you gonna do?”Mother O': “We're gonna open that Word and look together. I'm still practicing too, baby. Don't let this gray hair fool you.” 😂Student: “Mother O', you act like you weren't always saved.”Mother O': “ACT like? Baby, I keep telling y'all—I ain't always been saved!” 😂😂😂Everybody at the table loses it.Mother O': “Now... since y'all done gotten comfortable using all this free Wi-Fi—”Students: “Oh Lord...” 😂Mother O': “Don't ‘Oh Lord’ me. Get them Bibles.”Student: “Wait... what are we doing?”Mother O': “Bible drill.”Another Student: “Is there a prize?” 👀Mother O': “See there? Ain't found one Scripture and already asking about the blessing.” 😂Student: “What's the Scripture?”Mother O': “Everybody ready?”Students: “READY!”Mother O': “Find me Philippians 4:6. GO!”Pages start flying around the table.Student: “GOT IT!”Mother O': “Then READ IT, baby!
Hollering ain't a Bible drill!” 😂📖The whole coffee shop erupts in laughter.

Phee's phone rings.Phee: “Hello, baby... okay.
Where are you?”
She listens.Phee: “Alright. Stay there. I'm coming.”ReRe: “Residential?”Phee: “Mmhmm.”ReRe: “Go ahead. I got the Pit.”Phee grabs her Dorm Mother bag and heads toward Residential Living.Student: “Everything okay?”ReRe: “That's what she's going to find out. Now baby, you want them fries or not?” 😂A few minutes later, ReRe looks at the students still sitting around the tables.ReRe: “Alright, babies! LAST CALL! The Pit will be closing soon!”Student: “ReReeee, it's still early!” 😂ReRe: “Early WHERE?” 👀Everybody starts laughing.ReRe: “Listen—you don't have to go home...”A couple students already start laughing because they know what's coming.ReRe: “...but you GOT to leave from here!” 😂😂😂Student: “Where we supposed to go?!”ReRe: “I don't know, baby.Perhaps that beautiful Residential Living we provided for you?” 😂The tables erupt.Another Student: “Can I at least get some popcorn for the walk?”ReRe: “Now THAT I can do. Get your popcorn and take yourself home.” 😂🍿Students begin gathering backpacks, food, and drinks as the Pit starts winding down.ReRe: “Love y'all. Be safe. I'll see you babies at home.”Student: “Love you too, ReRe!”ReRe: “Mmhmm. Love Parkway is that way.” 😂👉🏾

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