By Mitch Holt, Staff Writer

Healthy Relationships Week, Feb. 2-6, marked the third annual week of its kind sponsored by the Counseling Center. Several opportunities for spiritual growth and self-reflection were offered through forums, Chapel talks and other assemblies around campus.

Mark Lewis, director of Spiritual Life, said he wants students to examine relationships in all areas of their lives.

“We’re hoping that the things communicated throughout [Healthy Relationships Week] will encourage and challenge people to seek the Lord in all their relationships and in every detail of each relationship,” he said.

Robert Oglesby Jr., instructor of Bible, ministry and missions, led Monday’s Chapel talk on the importance of being sexually pure. Oglesby also led a Chapel forum Monday that consisted of a panel of ACU faculty that answered students’ questions about relationship and sexual issues. The forum’s theme was “Radical Purity in a Radically Impure World.”

Tuesday, Ron Rose, minister at Woodland West Church of Christ in Arlington, also spoke about relationships at a brown bag lunch. Wednesday and Thursday consisted of relationship information booths and small group Chapels based on the HRW theme.

Through Healthy Relationships Week, the Counseling Center sought to help the student body grow in their wisdom of how Christian relationships should be, and Aaron Clark, freshman broadcast journalism major from Abilene, said the topics could have impacted all students.

“The points made during the week are things that apply to everyone,” he said. “The forum showed many different views on things like relationships and sex, but one thing I noticed was the lack of care that the students had. ACU could do a better job by involving the students more and providing a more hands-on experience.”