Walla Walla University students attended Week of Worship Oct. 2–6, 2023. The theme was “In My Feelings” delivered by Andres Beccai, Walla Walla University Church pastor.
Week of Worship is a quarterly tradition that aims to bring WWU closer to its center — God.
Every morning throughout the week, classes paused and students filled the church for a moment of worship together.
Beccai, who came to University Church in spring 2019, described the week as profound. The key message was emotions that usually bring us down — such as anxiety, apathy, fear and insecurity — can all be doors for us to open up and let Christ into those spaces.
He said, “I really wanted to speak to the acute emotions and feelings students have that impact their academic and spiritual lives, and how might God redeem those feelings of anxiety.”
In the evenings, Beccai also facilitated a unique program called Moth Storytelling. Inspired by a nonprofit and its award-winning radio show, the nightly events featured faculty, staff and students sharing personal testimonies and experiences relating to the emotion that Beccai spoke about that day.
Students were impacted by this sacred time of coming together and worshiping. By the end of the week, two students came forward for baptism.
