I began my current position last August. When I was hired, the Church Relations guy and the woman running our Vocational Exploration stuff both said to me, "We want campus ministry to be more of one group instead of seven different organizations (6 denominational entities, one fellowship of Christian athletes). Ok, fine, that is what we worked on this whole last semester.

Now, because the seven groups are seven different Recognized Student Organizations (R.S.O.'s) that didn't fulfull all their requirements this past semester (I think we had three groups that did out of the 7), we are not eligible to fund raise.

But we need to fundraise for both on campus activities but also because we are planning a trip to go to Taize, France in May and we've been given the go-ahead from our advancement department. But it is members of Campus Ministry and not from one bloody R.S.O., so the Student Activities person doesn't know how we should be classified.

So, I'm now stuck between a rock and a hard place. Do I do what I was commissioned to do - make one big group? Or, do I do it how the university has it set up, and have each of the 7 R.S.O.'s have to do their own thing so we can get funding?

Of course, the student activities person said we could do all this collaboratively, which is fine but it's a bit like herding cats. And now, instead of having two representatives on student senate (for all of CM) we have to have 7 or maybe even 14 so we can have a girl/guy duo for each group!

Sigh.

And why the heck didn't I know all of this in August????

Just love it when you start a new job and folks assume you know what the heck you're supposed to do.