Kyle Digman: “Where Two or Three” (Grad Sunday)

The bare minimum to have a community is just a group of people. People together make a community, and people are community. It’s not the place or the activities. The center of a community is people.

When I came to college, I thought I had a lot of things figured out (I didn’t). One thing that I actually had right was that I believed community would shape my college experience. Some of the most important people and experiences up until that point had been in a variety of different communities, both in a faith context and otherwise. Today I will say I was correct. Community made my college experience, and a lot of that was here at Pres House.

When I first came to Pres House, I was excited and a little nervous. My brother Evan was a senior, and so I had already learned what Pres House was about. But I still wondered if it would be my community too. I quickly met many amazing people, including others in my grade. I started playing on the Music Team, which was a vital outlet for music and gave me space to learn on my own terms doing something I loved. Even though our space is amazing, and the activities we do are fun, it wasn’t the Uno cards that built this community; it was still the people.

One of my favorite parts of our Sunday service together is Two+, which acts as passing the peace of Christ, for all those familiar. It reminds me every week of how special this group of people is. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus says, “For where two or three are gathered in my name I am there among them” (Matthew 18:20). This grounds me in the fact that this group is the body of Christ, this group has changed my life, and this group will continue to gather far beyond my time here. Now go and continue to pass the peace of Christ in this community, in this group of people.

Kyle Digman (he/him) graduates in May 2026 with a B.S. in Biology and Global Health and a certificate in Biocore.