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Studying abroad can feel like a vacation – a break from real school (at your home university) and real life. But there’s so much more to studying abroad if you’ll let Jesus guide you and be willing to learn from him.

Upon arriving in a new city or on a college campus, you might think, “How am I supposed to find a church in this place? I just got here! I hardly know where the dining hall is!” The even more confounding question follows...

I grew up in church, faithfully attended youth group, and was pretty serious about my faith throughout high school. So when I came to college, I knew I had a choice to make.

Returning to campus after an InterVarsity Global Project or Urban Project is often a more difficult journey than actually leaving a comfortable life for six weeks. It’s the coming back that is the true test of who you are and who you’ve become.

Moving half-way across the country brings more than just geographical changes.

Named the country’s most dangerous city in 2011 for its violent crime, Flint, Michgan is also home to 30,000 college students.

Last March, I had the honor of being a bridesmaid for one of my dear friends from work. The other bridesmaids and I decided to put together an amazing bridal shower a couple weeks before the wedding.

A campus ministry is changing its name, a name it has been known by for decades. We send best wishes to our colleagues at Campus Crusade for Christ, which will be known officially as Cru beginning in 2012.

One of the four crew members of this month’s final space shuttle flight is Mission Specialist Rex Walheim, a University of California-Berkeley InterVarsity chapter alumnus.

One of my favorite things to do during the summer, besides lie by the pool, is to go on a Retreat of Silence (ROS).