The least I can do is try leading for one year and pour back into the students.
Stories from Campus
“The Lord met me face to face and showed me the revival starting in our generation,” said Nina, a student in the Greek InterVarsity chapter at San Diego State University.
In November of her freshman year, Sam had a conversation with an InterVarsity student leader that she would vividly remember a whole year later.
The leader told Sam that if he lost everything –– his family, his belongings, everything and everyone –– he would still be okay, because he has Jesus.
As a new Christian just getting to know Jesus for herself, Sam was skeptical. “Really?” she remembers asking. “That’s a bold claim to make! You can say that, but is that how you would genuinely perceive it?”
“All you really need is Christ,” he insisted. “Nothing else.”
Growing up, Nurlan cared more than anything about people experiencing compassion, love, and justice. He was raised in an atheist family, and he thought Christianity couldn’t be used for anything other than a weapon or a way for some to position themselves as better than others.
“Not only did I not know who Christ was, I was told, ‘Stay away from that. That is a distraction from your future,’” he said.
Throughout high school, Ashley’s life was full of sadness. She questioned if she had a purpose and wondered what the point was of life itself. Then she met Grace in a class at Scripps College. She didn’t know why, but she felt like she should sit next to her.
At the Indiana University, the Greek system is one of the largest in the country. During the 2024-2025 school year, two students named Mike and Ned decided to start a Bible study in their fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon. They hoped they could help their brothers follow Jesus like they had.
"Jesus changed my life, and I wanted God to use me to show my fraternity brothers who he is," Ned said.
For 84 years, InterVarsity has been spreading the hope of Jesus on campuses throughout the country, and across the world.
It started on November 14, 1941, when InterVarsity Christian Fellowship was officially recognized as a nonprofit organization in the United States. Since then, God has been using us to reach college students through seasons of war and revival, division and peace, sickness and hope.
Neil, now an alumnus of the University of Texas at Austin, encountered InterVarsity not through an invitation, a roommate, or a table, but from a humble flyer.
As a freshman, Neil already had a stack of flyers clutched in his hand as he navigated his way past the student organizations vying for his attention on the way to class. When he was approached by yet another student offering him a flyer, Neil accepted it, only concerned with making it to his class on time. It remained unread for two weeks.
At The University of Texas at Austin in the early 2000s, a group of South Asian students noticed that their corner of campus was overlooked. No campus ministries or churches sought to evangelize to or create Christian community for the growing population of Indian students on campus. The South Asian community on campus embodied a variety of cultural identities — children of immigrants, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, and nominal Christians — yet none were being reached by existing ministries.
The more time Avelino spent growing close to his InterVarsity community and reading the Bible, the more he wanted to invite others to have the same experience.