InterVarsity has chapters on colleges that are not traditional four-year residential campuses. Compton Community College in Compton, California, is a two-year campus. The student body includes many commuter students, single parents, and older returning students. InterVarsity is committed to training these students in leadership and Christian disciplines. One very effective training experience, held shortly after school is out in the spring, is the Focus Week at Campus-by-the-Sea on Catalina Island, off the coast of southern California.
The InterVarsity staff realized that many students from Compton would not be able to attend a weeklong training session unless their children could come too. Several teachers volunteered to create a program for the children, who were blessed by the activities and the loving care of their teachers and the other students. The group from Compton was a beautiful cross-section of the school’s demographics: the youngest person to come with the Compton group was eleven month old Jeremiah, the son of one of the students, and the oldest was Fred, a 70 year old Korean War veteran who is a part-time student. The Compton InterVarsity chapter is working to fulfill Jesus’ command to make disciples of all people.
