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Andrew Mullen, Called To Greatness campus minister, sets up a roulette table for the Game Night. Mullen dressed up in the classic white button up partnered with a black bowtie to play the part of a proper casino dealer.
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Zach Boyden (right), sophomore business major, sits at the front table to check in students. Students received 20 chips to start the night.
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Students sign up for the Game Night through the CampusGroups app. If students ran out of chips, they could get 10 more after following CTG on Instagram.
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Mullen (left) and Dillon Walls (right), CTG campus minister, pose back-to-back. Mullen ran the roulette table and Walls ran one of two poker tables.
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Carson Faurot, senior finance major and CTG president, welcomes students and explains the event. Faurot was the second dealer for poker.
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Students make bets at the roulette table. Several students described roulette as easy to bet and fun to play.
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Deven Crisostomo (left), sophomore psychology major, and Cezanne Peirce (right), sophomore international business major, play blackjack together. The event featured three blackjack tables, two poker tables and one roulette table.
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Chase Ryckman, sophomore marketing major, smiles behind his wall of chips. Ryckman ended the night in second place.
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Faurot (left), Ryckman (middle right) and Ryota Kariya (right), junior computer science major, clap for Joshua Guthrie, freshman radiology technology major. Guthrie came in first place with a total of 708 chips.
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Ryckman (left), Guthrie (middle) and Kariya (right) stand with their prizes. Kariya won a gift basket for third place, Ryckman won a TV for second place and Guthrie won tickets to a Kansas State University football game for first place.
Called to Greatness, a campus ministry partnered with Community Church, hosted a Game Night Sept. 26 to give students the opportunity to win prizes through playing card games.
Carson Faurot, senior finance major and president of CTG, said the event was used primarily as a fun way to connect students with the campus ministry.
“CTG’s mission is to bring the love and mission of Jesus onto Washburn’s campus,” Faurot said. “Meeting and building relationships with new students is a big part of that.”
More than 55 students were given 20 chips to start the night and had the opportunity to build it up or lose it all in different traditional casino games such as blackjack, poker and roulette. The students who earned the top three amount of chips received a prize for their skill on the floor.
In third place was Ryota Kariya, junior computer science major, who won a gift basket of card games and CTG merchandise. Chase Ryckman, sophomore marketing major, earned a TV for coming in second place. Standing at first place with a total of 708 chips was Jason Guthrie, freshman radiology technology major, who chose tickets to a Kansas State University football game.
“They think I cheated, hypothetically, but I played blackjack and I played poker,” Guthrie said.
Guthrie enjoyed the prize and the games, but his biggest takeaway was the connections he made with other students.
“We’re all strangers, but nobody was different,” Guthrie said. “Everyone was really friendly and was really connecting together.”
Faurot was very happy about the success of CTG’s Game Night. He saw students having fun playing games and competing to win prizes.
CTG plans to host more events in the future to give students the opportunity to have fun and encourage them to get plugged into a ministry.
“We hope to keep investing in the future of our students to bring the transformative power of the gospel of Jesus to our campus and community,” Faurot said.
CTG meets every Thursday at 7 p.m. at Community Church and is open to all students who are interested.
Edited by Anson Appelhanz and Anushma Dahal
