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Through the BCM chapter at MSU, students can explore faith, unafraid of judgment or misunderstandings. They don’t have to choose between being Black and Christian –– they can celebrate both

How do you feel about merch? Personally, I’m into it. It’s a really special feeling to find a shirt, sticker, or hat that perfectly communicates something about who you are, what you love, and which tribe you belong to.

Jessie grew up in New York City in a South Asian Christian family. Her parents were church planters who could trace their Christian heritage back to the apostle Thomas. While faith was a huge part of Jessie’s early life, it didn’t become real and personal to her until she got involved in InterVarsity as a college student in Amherst. As Jesus became the center of her life, she decided to surrender everything to him, including her career.

Our culture today confuses the intimate with the romantic, sometimes resulting in confusion between friends and often the sexualization of intimacy. But at its core, intimacy just means to know and be known.

“Sophomore slumps” can hit us all. Some of us decide to follow Jesus for the first time and are excited to go all in with him. Then, a year later, we find ourselves struggling to maintain that same fire we once had.

On the Purdue campus, every Panhellenic sorority has a Bible study and so do over half of the fraternities. Fueled by spiritual hunger and steady discipleship, Greek InterVarsity at Purdue is training and sending students to their houses to love and witness to their friends, until “every Greek is one friend away from Jesus.”

One crazy experience became a launching point for Austin to discover genuine faith.

I stepped into my first large group session at Urbana 25, longing for my bed, after a 27-hour road trip from Wisconsin to Arizona. But that first night Jennie Allen told us to open our eyes. To ask ourselves what was holding us back from receiving what Jesus had for us. To listen. I realized that there were more important things than getting enough sleep that night. By the end of the week, I understood why the Lord had brought me to Urbana.

Coming in a good way means asking permission when arriving at a new space and being invited there by Creator God and the local community. It involves taking initiative to build relationships and connections with people you meet and thanking Creator God for witnessing his works. Eventually, it should lead to partnership.