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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InterVarsity ServeUp invited 9,000 student volunteers to rebuild homes in communities affected by natural disaster, beginning with a commitment to rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Through the program, hundreds of students began following Jesus, and some have even joined InterVarsity staff. One of these InterVarsity students-turned-staff is Sommer Hayes.
As a high achiever who had always excelled in school, Gigi didn’t expect to have to work so hard for her grades in Dental School at Columbia University. Suddenly she was studying all day every day, with little time to pursue anything else. After living like this for the first year, Gigi realized something needed to change.
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.
In the 20 years since InterVarsity ServeUp began, 9,000 college students have served in disaster relief, including 4,000 non-Christians — with 600 putting their faith in Jesus. What began as a one-time response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina became two decades of rebuilding, evangelism, partnership, and leadership development.
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.