Students enjoy tea, a delightful time

Troy Delight Ministries held a “Tea Party and Presentations” event for ladies looking to make friends and have a church-based community. The ladies gathered in their spring dresses in Hawkins 107, where blankets scattered the floor picnic style, and a table was set up with home-baked goods, and an allotment of teacups and teas.  

There were egg salad sandwiches, vanilla chai coffee cakes, raspberry cinnamon rolls as well as earl grey tea, ginger teas and more. After some teatime and chatting, the girls made their way through their presentations; all to bond. 

“I just met some of the best girls ever,” said Kathryn Armstrong, a junior psychology major from Headland, Alabama, who also serves as the book and worship coordinator for Delight. “I like just having that iron sharpens iron relationship where I can go and be filled with the Holy Spirit and just have my cup filled up.” 

This event was a way for the girls to get to know each other's personalities outside of the usual Bible study and have a sense of community and fellowship. 

“I really like to see a lot of the shyer girls' personalities and see really funny presentations that I would not have come up with,” said Auni Shema, a junior hospitality, tourism and event management major from Fort Walton Beach, Florida, who also serves as the events coordinator for Delight. 

The presentations were a wide range of topics from knowledge of marine biology by an amateur to which Delight leader would survive a zombie apocalypse. Although, none of those presentations got the same amount of laughter as the one titled, “Bible stories if they happened today.” 

“It’s been really, really fun to see what people go with,” said Emma Mitchell, senior psychology major from Birmingham, Alabama, who also serves as the co-team director for Delight. “It’s such a fun time, and it's really relaxing.  

“Every week I have said that delight feels like a breath of fresh air to me.” 

Delight will have a “Popsicles and Prayer Requests” event coming up soon. For more details on that event, visit @delight_troyu on Instagram.  

The group also has weekly meetings Thursday nights at 6:30 p.m. in Hawkins 107.