Luca on Faith to Go Podcast
- Luca Delaney
- Dec 29, 2025
- 3 min read
Faith to Go is our Diocesan Podcast with an international reach. Recently Luca, one of our student leaders, was featured on the show to share a GodSighting during the 12 Days of Christmas. Listen below or read even more below...
“I get to see people working with God on campus very clearly whenever I spend time with Agape San Diego, as we're giving out pizza on Wednesdays. It's a very simple setup. Every week, Agape's campus ministers, Greg and Darin, set up two pop-up tents in a patch of grass on campus, and hand out Costco pizza and sparkling water to anyone who wants some.
On the sides of the pop-up are banners that announce, free pizza and rest here. I think that the one announcing free food is the one that gets most people to come up for the first time. Every week I have come, someone will walk up and ask some variation of the question, is it really free?
I love getting to see their face light up when one of us sitting under the pop-up tells them that, yes, it is really free food. Please take some. But a few weeks ago, we got asked a different question.
An older man in a wheelchair wearing a military veteran hat, the same one that all my veteran uncles love to wear, asked if he really could rest here. I told him, of course, and offered him food and told him to stay as long as he wanted to. He sat down a sleeping bag, got himself out of his chair, and took a nap in the sun.
While he was sleeping, things continued as normal. Food was given out and conversations with strangers came and went. When we had put everything away, Greg gently woke him up from his nap and he went on his way.”
I’ve been thinking about this interaction a lot. It's not much of an interaction at all, just a handful of words really. But I am so thankful to God that this man had a space to rest.
I can see God working through Darin and Greg and Agape's ministry. It's clearest when I get to witness people having a safe space to rest and have a meal. Christ spent so much of his ministry feeding people, providing a place to be nourished physically and spiritually.
I see a reflection of this in the space that Agape provides on campus. A lot of people give to the students of San Diego State University, which I am so, so, so thankful for. But a big part of what draws me to Agape's ministry specifically is that it is giving to the whole community around SDSU's campus.
This means not only our students offered rest and a meal, but so are professors, administrative staff, janitors, campus police, people waiting for a bus from the nearby transit center, and anyone who happens to be near the patch of grass that Agape claims every Wednesday. It doesn't matter who they are or why they are there or even how many shoes they have on, they are welcome and they will enjoy a meal and a safe space to rest if they want it. I see the light of God in this space of rest and nourishment.
I love getting to talk with all the different people who come by every week, never seeing the same combination of faces twice. I get to see the light of God spread through the conversations between people who are resting in this space. It's really simple, but I believe that God's love is spread through connections, and this part of Agape's ministry feels like a clear example of that.”
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From Faith To Go Podcast:
The Second Day of Christmas with Luca Delaney
12 Days of God Sightings on Faith to Go, Dec 26, 2025
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