The least I can do is try leading for one year and pour back into the students.
“The Lord met me face to face and showed me the revival starting in our generation,” said Nina, a student in the Greek InterVarsity chapter at San Diego State University.
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When Alliah left Miami, Florida, for Flint, Michigan, she never expected to find a new community on a college campus.
She had originally moved to attend the University of Michigan-Flint (UM-Flint) to study education. At the start of her program, she was so busy working and taking classes full-time that she never had the chance to learn about the groups that existed on campus. On top of that, Alliah is a mother to two children.
“As soon as classes ended, I left,” she said.
Surprisingly, all that changed when she went on a trip to Disney World.
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Hannah, an international student from Shanghai, found herself halfway across the world for college. She was lonely and grappling with her faith, but in her junior year of undergrad she committed to InterVarsity. And when she moved on to graduate school, she immediately found her home at InterVarsity's Graduate Fellowship chapter at Columbia University.
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Beeliada still laughs when she remembers how she ended up at her first InterVarsity Bible study at Southern Utah University (SUU).
She had given her friend Mark excuses for weeks, until one day, she ran out. Mark didn’t hesitate.
“He took my hand and dragged me! I didn’t know what to say, so I followed him and went,” Beeliada said.
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Though she already had a solid relationship with God, Angelica hadn’t yet found a good fit when it came to Christian community. Until near the end of junior year when her friend Joy Hope invited her to InterVarsity.