News

A video report to staff from InterVarsity president Alec Hill.

How do you get a whole campus, one of the largest campuses in the U.S., to listen to God? That's the goal next week when InterVarsity brings The Price of Life Invitational to Ohio State University.

Next Monday, April 19, 2010, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that will have a major impact on campus ministry. The case involves the Christian Legal Society chapter at the University of California Hastings College of Law in San Francisco.

Recently Tim Deatrick, pastor of Ashworth Road Baptist Church in West Des Moines, IA, spoke to the InterVarsity chapter at Drake University. He not only shared a message with the students, but afterwards shared with the readers of his weblog some reasons why churches should support InterVarsity and other ministries on campus.

InterVarsity students from across the country, spending their spring break working on the West Side of Chicago rather than relaxing at the beach, got the attention of the Chicago Tribune. An article published on Good Friday, April 2nd, examines the motivations and explores the activities of the 230 students participating in the Chicago Urban Project.

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.