Beyond Campus

In the middle of one of my many job interviews, time stopped for a second.

Before I could blink, all those Bible studies I led, all those flyers I passed out, all those terrifying conversations about Jesus with people I didn’t know, came back. I realized, in that moment, just how employable all those experiences as an InterVarsity leader made me.

Here are four awesome ways leadership molded me into a seriously employable job applicant after I graduated.

1. InterVarsity leaders are the Navy Seals of leadership.

Soon enough, if it hasn’t been made apparent to you already, you’ll discover that each person has limits—a ceiling that can initially be heavily discouraging and frustrating.

Throughout the past 25 years, God has placed me in four distinct churches that have differed in denomination, race, socioeconomic makeup, and language. In these different communities, God has grown my understanding of him and his mission and equipped me to better serve him among diverse people.

Gaining a Firm Foundation

In the church where I grew up, God saved me. I was baptized and made my public proclamation of faith there. I began to learn how to pray, read Scripture, lead, and live a life of faith in community.

A man entrusted money to three servants. He assigned five bags of gold to the first, two to the second, and one to the last. 

How do you decide which church to get involved in? Here are a few dos and don’ts for your search.

I left college in the summer of 2012 with a sense that God wanted something great for my life. I just didn’t know what that looked like.

I’ve enjoyed life in college. A lot. I don’t think I’m alone in that. So when I got to the Blue Ridge Region’s chapter camp recently and entered a track called “Life After College,” I knew God was about to make me pretty uncomfortable.

In one year, I married off seven friends, left the neighborhood I’d inhabited since my first year of college, moved into a new house with two people who were never home, and lost my mentor when his wife took a job 500 miles away.