On the Horizon: Peach Cobbler Breakthrough?

Just last week, Eddy Ekmekji (center), the staff at Cal State Northridge, met with two of his interns, Sky (left) and Terrell (right)—both recent CSUN grads—to discuss how they might reach more Black men on campus.

Sky shared that it wasn’t just Christians who were challenged to reach Black men, but as president of CSUN’s chapter of the NAACP, he’d been in some of the same discussions, and gotten nowhere. As they met they stumbled upon an idea.

Days later they baked up four peach cobblers, and walked them over to the CSUN dorms. As they broadcast “peach cobbler”, one by one, Black students started coming out of the woodwork! “What’s the catch?” folks asked. “No catch, you just need to hang out with us to eat the cobbler.” “No problem!” they heard. As Black men become an increasing rarity on the college campus, we hope that God will keep giving us insights into reaching them. Pray for our ministries at UCLA and CSUN, in particular, where God’s given us Black staff who have a heart to reach Black students.