Baseball, Books, and Sticky Tape
An annual picnic and a baseball game help InterVarsity chapter members get to know each other
An annual picnic and a baseball game help InterVarsity chapter members get to know each other
George Washington University attracts students who want to change the world
One changed freshman inspires InterVarsity students to be missional families on campus
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.
I first fell in love with the Ethiopian people in my late twenties. As a Regional Director for World Relief, I led a team that resettled hundreds of refugees escaping from the communist regime in their homeland. So when I learned that our Fellowship was sending 11 students and two staff to Addis Ababa for a six week Global Project during the summer of 2009, I jumped on the opportunity.
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.
A practical guide to preparing for intercultural missions with resources for personal spiritual preparation as well as cross-cultural skills and hands-on missionary training.
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.
Tim Keller believes that engaging our contemporary culture with the gospel is one of the most important lessons he learned from InterVarsity, as a student at Bucknell University, and later as a staff volunteer while attending Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Now he pastors one of the largest churches in New York City.
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.