Finally I had to say bye to UBS. With a heavy heart I bade adieu. Four years stint in the campus was fruitful in all the ways. It was like a rollercoaster ride. There were ups and downs, delightful and fearful moments, exhilarating and depressive times but at the end of the ride all is for good and for my betterment. UBS has given me great friends whom I can admire
lifelong and whom I can rely on for all the storms of my life. It has also introduced me to great role models who have inspired me in all the ways of my life. I am not afraid to confess that I learnt to read the Bible the way I ought to read only here and also the boldness to write what I think in my mind in different genres through those role models.
Though I have a regret that I could have done better and though I am haunted by ‘if only I have done this’ spirit now and then, I am a transformed person now. I am sure that I am not the same Jebaseelan who has entered UBS campus on June 2007. I have grown. I have learnt. I have understood life better and I have enjoyed life to its fullness. I will definitely miss the campus and all the holy men and women in it.
Whenever I visit my Alma Maters in Trichy and Chennai and walk in the roads I have walked thousands of time during the stay there, I used be overwhelmed by gratitude of what that particular campus was to me. It will be the same thing with UBS now. I will always thank God for giving me the opportunity to study in this great institution and rub shoulders with great mortal-saints. I don’t know what position all my classmates and others whom I know through UBS will hold in future, but one thing is sure that they will be pillars of the Indian Church for the coming generation.
Good bye UBS. I will not forget the way you molded me and shaped me for my ministry. I will not dare to ignore the lessons you have taught me in the campus. If God willing, may I repay you for your generosity in any small way I can.