Chapter 2: What is InterVarsity?

By Steve Hayner and Paul Gutjahr

InterVarsity is people…students and staff members growing in their commitment to Jesus Christ, God's people, and Christ's work in the world. These priorities focus and guide our lives.

We are also people whom God has called to ministry in the realm of higher education and placed on campuses across the country. Over the past 50 years, the combined initiative and leadership of both students and InterVarsity staff have effectively engaged the campus with the message of Jesus Christ. In the midst of this partnership, there has been, and continues to be, a deep belief that students are critical ambassadors of Christ with unique opportunities and responsibilities on their campuses. Missionaries call this the "indigenous principle." In any environment, the people who live and work in their natural environment have the most effective witness to those around them.