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.
Through InterVarsity, Imari was given opportunities to lead. Her passions for caring for her city, her campus, and her community soon became acts of living out her faith and showing others the love of Jesus.
Despite his academic strengths, starting college was a struggle for Ray because he moved away from his close-knit friend group. However, one day he unintentionally sat down at a table where a group of Christian students gathered for a ministry meeting. That same group of students eventually led him to Christ. Now, as he works towards his PhD at Columbia University, Ray is leading ministry himself.
As a high achiever who had always excelled in school, Gigi didn’t expect to have to work so hard for her grades in Dental School at Columbia University. Suddenly she was studying all day every day, with little time to pursue anything else. After living like this for the first year, Gigi realized something needed to change.
When Alliah left Miami, Florida, for Flint, Michigan, she never expected to find a new community on a college campus.
She had originally moved to attend the University of Michigan-Flint (UM-Flint) to study education. At the start of her program, she was so busy working and taking classes full-time that she never had the chance to learn about the groups that existed on campus. On top of that, Alliah is a mother to two children.
“As soon as classes ended, I left,” she said.
Surprisingly, all that changed when she went on a trip to Disney World.
Hannah, an international student from Shanghai, found herself halfway across the world for college. She was lonely and grappling with her faith, but in her junior year of undergrad she committed to InterVarsity. And when she moved on to graduate school, she immediately found her home at InterVarsity's Graduate Fellowship chapter at Columbia University.
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Beeliada still laughs when she remembers how she ended up at her first InterVarsity Bible study at Southern Utah University (SUU).
She had given her friend Mark excuses for weeks, until one day, she ran out. Mark didn’t hesitate.
“He took my hand and dragged me! I didn’t know what to say, so I followed him and went,” Beeliada said.
Raised in a church that was heavy on legalism and dismissive about grace, Jennifer thought God wanted her to fit in a box. She didn’t think she’d be accepted as her genuine self at church, so she got used to suppressing certain parts of her identity, including her Japanese heritage. It wasn’t until she found InterVarsity that she encountered God’s true character… and the fullness of who he created her to be.