Michigan State University was abuzz last week with an event that had been in preparations for over a year. When God's people come together to pray, focus on outreach, train and send out people to do evangelism, raise money for the poor, teach and respond to injustices, and cooperate across ethnicities, astounding things can happen.
After graduation from Texas Tech, Rob visited the Far East. One day, standing in the crowd of a major city, Rob asked himself if he had a heart for the salvation of the people around him.
Every summer students from campuses across the country meet for an intensive month of leadership development at Cedar Campus, called the School of Leadership Training. While most students leave the school well-prepared to lead their campus chapters, a remarkable number of them also leave with extraordinary stories of personal transformation.
Flames, smoke, disruption, and anxiety defined life in southern California in October, as raging wildfires forced the temporary evacuation of over a half million residents. So when the time for InterVarsity's annual fall conference arrived, November 9-11, San Diego's InterVarsity ministry team was apprehensive.
One of the benefits of her new job as director of Nurses Christian Fellowship (NCF) is that Pat Emery is no longer on call, as she has been for much of her professional life.
"This five-year Strategic Plan represents a new chapter in InterVarsity's history," said president Alec Hill.
Some of the challenging conditions of urban ministry
