Recent Comments ARCHIVE - Love writes a letter to Hate - 19 things I want RUF to be about - Time to Start - Casa Hogar 2 - Casa Hogar 2 - Casa Hogar 1 - End of the Semester Report - A poem by Nicole Rowlette - Mexico - Poem by Anthony Plopper - My Poem - Patty Griffin Rocks My House - End of the Decade - The Gospel by Tim Keller - Sex by Marva Dawn - The Interviews - Becky Robertson - The Interviews - Katie Willis - The Interviews - Ian Puffenberger - The Interviews - The Moyni - The Interviews - Chris Schaefer		The Interviews - Meghan Barnes 8/20/09 I remember meeting Meghan Barnes, then Meghan Earl. She seemed super cool and quiet. She started coming to RUF and then eventually we met for coffee and talked. Wow. It was great, because the gospel was making sense to her and she seemed alive, passionate and directional. It was such a joy to have her and Collin get together, and then to marry them. Now they have a beautiful baby - Dru - who was baptized recently. Meghan is beautiful, talented and fun. She is one of my very favorite singers, and one of my cherished moments is listening to her sing Who is this so weak and helpless? at the train depot with the train churning by in the background. 1. How did you first get involved with RUF? I attended RUF with a guy I was dating. 2. What was/is your favorite part about RUF? RUF is special to me because it's where the Word and the Spirit intersected for me. I left that first night with a hunger for more; something was different; and I didn't want to have to wait a week to come back and hear Doug talk about the Bible some more. Then I started meeting people (not that no one spoke to me my first night there; they did), and the word community also became alive. I'd never had real friends before. This all sounds very dramatic, because it is. 3. How would you describe your RUF to people interested in coming? It is a place where you'll hear passages from the Bible and learn about them, and sometimes it will be difficult, but it will be good. It is a thoughtful place, where people ask you things like "How does that make you feel?" Alien to me pre-RUF. It is a place where people really love, because they're trying to love like Jesus. 4. What traditions did you have at RUF that meant the most to you? I loved my Z group and will always have a special place in my heart for our few meetings, because that's when I started dating Collin. - Do you have an appropriate funny moment that you can share? I don't know that it's funny, but aside from the Converse sneakers, you should get married incident, it's the most memorable. Not-a-Date with Norman Maynard (who was engaged, and I was soon to be engaged to Collin). We went to Greek House and ended up sitting next to a girl who'd tended bar where I'd been working. The last she'd seen me I was partying it up with the rest of them (a.k.a. she knew the old Meghan only), and there Norman and I were, and he said, "Shall we pray?" And I said, "Of course." (This is not exact.) He then proceeded to pray rather loudly (it only sounded loud because we were in Greek House). I remember her looking over at me and giving me this horrendous look. I loved it. I was so happy. -Do you have a favorite RUF hymn? What is it and why is it your favorite? I loved them all, but O Love That Will Not Let Me Go and Come Ye Sinners really spoke to me a lot at first. Then I Asked the Lord, because it took me a while to figure that one out. : ) I love them all. 5. How did God use RUF in your life? God used RUF in the most pivotal way possible: to bring me to himself in a regenerative way. 6. Did RUF help you in your understanding and love for the church and for community? How so? Yes, I thought the word community was a weird word before. I didn't know how to have friends. That sounds impossible, but I really didn't. This is a work in progress. I learned about love by learning to study how Jesus loved. Another work in progress. 7. What are you doing now? Where are you in church? I'm an editor at a publishing house in Mustang, OK, and attend Christ the King PCA in Norman with my husband, Collin. 8. What is the gospel and how is it operating in your life right now? The gospel is the good news that I am a sinner in need of grace and that Jesus paid the price for my sins. It is the truth that I need Jesus, and it operates in the way I relate to others, my spouse, my new daughter. It is a part of everything. It is everything. Name: (optional) 8/27/09 8:48 pm brent corbin: encouraging. thanks meghan. i remember sitting next to you in spanish class and you letting courtney borrow some pants. and then her having them for 3 years, not giving them back, because she was too nervous to face you...