Summer means that school is out, but for InterVarsity June was the month of staff training and orientation. Staff arrived in Madison from around the country for orientation and training.
National Institute for Staff Education and Training (NISET)
Over 150 current InterVarsity staff members converged on Madison to learn more of who God is and how he is working on campus. Staff from the Chapter Building class went the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison to practice what they were learning. “The primary evidence of conversion is a transformed life,” commented one staff member taking the Conversion and Transformation class.
Orientation of New Staff (ONS)
This year over a hundred people joined InterVarsity staff. During their ten days in Madison, these people learned what it is like to serve under the banner of InterVarsity. They learned of the historical community of InterVarsity, the current community that will support their ministry and the laborers at the National Service Center who work behind the scenes to help them in their ministry to students. These young staff left Madison eager to go out and make disciples of men and women on campuses across the nation. (InterVarsity President Alec Hill shown above with staff from the Blue Ridge Area.)
Link Staff Training
Seven new Link staff gathered in Madison to prepare for their overseas assignments with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES). Training included missiological issues all missionaries must deal with, how to navigate cross-cultural adjustment well, the role of prayer in ministry, and other critical topics, as well training in the administrative and organizational issues unique to InterVarsity Link staff.
At the end of the month, nearly three hundred InterVarsity staff went into the world to boldly declare the gospel to students who would be arriving on their campuses within a few weeks.
