InterVarsity Students and Staff Plan to Reach More Campuses at Ambition Conference
(Madison, WI) -- InterVarsity’s Ambition conference, held in Anaheim, California, January 11-13, 2018, focuses on an ambitious goal. More than 700 college students, 300 InterVarsity staff, and a number of college faculty are meeting to plan and strategize what is needed to plant witnessing communities on every U.S. campus.
The conference is directed by Shawn Young, InterVarsity’s National Director of Chapter Planting, and features the Rev. Efrem Smith, founding pastor of The Sanctuary Covenant Church and CEO of World Impact, an organization that helps train leaders in urban ministry and plant churches in the inner city.
Ambition will also hear from a leader of another organization which shares InterVarsity’s ambitious vision. Mark Gauthier, Executive Director of U.S. Campus Ministry for Cru, will be speaking at Ambition’s Saturday morning session. Mark, and Jason Thomas, InterVarsity’s Executive Vice President of Field Ministries, also appeared together at Cru’s national staff conference last July.
Moved by the Lord to ask, “What can we accomplish together that we cannot apart?” InterVarsity and Cru leadership have committed to collaborate on campus in order to see more students and faculty become followers of Jesus Christ. They are jointly sponsoring a new website inviting other individuals, churches, and ministries to partner together in order to see a Christian witness on all U.S. campuses. The website is at everycampus.us.
The Ambition Live Stream can be accessed at: https://intervarsity.org/ambition/. Sessions are held between 7:00p.m. and 9:00p.m. (PST) and 9:30a.m. – 12:30p.m., beginning Thursday evening and ending Saturday evening. The name for InterVarsity’s Ambition conference is taken from the words of the Apostle Paul: "It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else's foundation.” [Romans 15:20]
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA is an interdenominational ministry to students and faculty on U.S. college and university campuses, working with more than 41,000 core students and faculty on 687 campuses nationwide. InterVarsity is a founding member of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, advancing Christian student work in more than 160 countries. InterVarsity is also a charter member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability.
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