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One changed freshman inspires InterVarsity students to be missional families on campus

I do not call anyone else my creator or my shepherd, but I do have plenty of friends. It would be no life-changing event to add God to the list. There is no mystery. But God defines friend differently.

InterVarsity does more than call students and faculty to a relationship with God; we prepare them to be mature, witnessing Christians who will serve people in the name of Jesus.

Greg Johnson is an InterVarsity team leader on campus at Rhode Island's Brown University campus. He's working with a chapter of about 45 students to help them move from being self-protective about their Christian faith to becoming missional and more focused on others than themselves.

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's 22nd Student Missions Conference will address some of the most pressing global issues presently faced by missions practitioners around the world. The next registration price deadline is October 17, 2009.

Mac resisted the idea of going on staff with InterVarsity. Having to raise his support and Amy's financial support presented a big hurdle, as it is for many couples who are in ministry with InterVarsity. But as he worked with Amy on campus as a volunteer Bible study leader, he found it harder and harder to resist the call to campus ministry.

Normally, Dunn Meadow serves as a low-key backyard for Indiana University students throwing Frisbees or finishing up class assignments. But on a Saturday night in early September, Dunn Meadow shook with the sounds of Nigerian, Taiwanese and other world music, 200 enthusiastic students grooving to new beats and glow sticks lighting up the night sky.

Being in community made all of the difference for Michael, a student at Clemson University

Today's college students are exposed to a marketplace of ideological perspectives, social issues, and alternative lifestyles—all without reference to God's character or his principles for morality revealed in Scripture. InterVarsity's campus witnessing communities invite all students and faculty to experience a relationship with God, a caring community, and biblical truth.