In 1978 and again in 1980, Dr. Billy Graham held city-wide evangelism meetings in Las Vegas. As Dr. Graham and his people were organizing the meetings and following up on the people who responded to the gospel message, they realized that the students at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV) had no one to support them in their Christian walk.
Frank Stenzel retired from InterVarsity staff in June of 2006. This was the culmination of a long relationship with InterVarsity that began in 1959 when Frank entered California State University-Chico as a freshman.
"Multiethnic reconciliation is all too rare in mainstream culture and the church," says the introduction to an article in the August issue of Christianity Today. The article is written by Orlando Crespo, the director of La Fe, InterVarsity's ministry with Hispanic students.
In 1956 some of the staff at Bear Trap Ranch gathered a group of interested alumni together to pray for the ministry at Bear Trap. Seven or eight times a year for the past 50 years, prayers have been offered for the students in Colorado.