This summer, a group of students took part in InterVarsity's Leadership Institute, a month of worship, fun, and growing together--as leaders, in vulnerability, and as a deep community to support each other in the new school year.
Job hunting doesn’t have to be a necessary evil or an awful season of life. It can be exciting, refreshing, and encouraging as we wait for the Lord to begin the next chapter in our lives.
First in her family to attend college, Ruth found herself lonely and needing God when she moved across the country for grad school--until she found an InterVarsity graduate ministry chapter.
"So living on mission for God means first sharing the gospel with everyone I meet, right? Because only when I make evangelism my first goal am I being a true, living witness and a messenger of hope. Or am I?"
“Do you want to go to Hawai`i?” Assuming that my boss was asking about a supervisory visit to Hawai`i, I eagerly said yes. Then she explained that she was asking me to help replant InterVarsity’s ministry because there were only two students left.
It was 1983, at the height of the Cold War. Bob was an InterVarsity Area Director in New Jersey with four years of campus ministry experience preceded by four years as a local church pastor. A friend working in Eastern Europe had invited Bob to teach church history to Romanian pastors for three weeks during the summer.