Ministry at urban commuter colleges is always difficult, but California State University Los Angeles has been more challenging than most for InterVarsity staff members. Each of the first three years that Maite Rodriguez began a new ministry year at Cal State L.A. was like starting all over again.
For ten days in early March, I had the great privilege of meeting with the presidents — named "general secretaries" in the rest of the world — from over 130 sister national student movements.
Groups Investigating God, or GIGs, is the name InterVarsity gives to evangelistic Bible studies.
Harvard has never seen anything like Jeremy Lin. In fact U.S. college basketball has never seen anything quite like Jeremy Lin, an Asian American basketball player who became a finalist for the Bob Cousy Award as he led his Harvard team to its best record ever this season.
In today's world, many people talk as if truth and love are incompatible. In courtrooms and classrooms, in taverns and town meetings, truth and love are talked about as opposite values—truth being intellectual and rational; love, emotional and nonrational. More than just temperamentally different, truth and love, like adult siblings grown apart, are said to have gone their different ways. Both accuse each other of incivility.
Tony Gatewood felt God leading him to the University of Iowa, where he got involved with InterVarsity. Now he's back at Iowa as an InterVarsity campus staff member.
Every year students involved in Greek InterVarsity invite their fraternity brothers and sorority sisters to Greek conferences, which are held in Los Angeles, Indianapolis, and Charlotte.
Few freshmen arriving on campus for the start of a new academic year realize how important their first 72 hours will be.