Basketball and Bible Study
Gabby loved basketball but had no idea how God was going to use it to change her life and the lives of others.
Stories from Campus
Starting a Movement on HBCU Campuses
When Tamice Spencer first encountered InterVarsity as a freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University, she wasn’t interested in Christianity. She had other interests.
Toasted Cheese and Texted Questions
“Why did you just walk in, an hour late to this lecture?” the instructor asked the two students who paused at the door of the Friday night EMT training at Amherst College.
Grant, a senior, responded, “Well, we got a text for a sandwich. Did someone here order a sandwich?”
They looked around the hall. The instructor asked, “Who ordered the sandwich?” Finally, a student in the back raised his hand. Grant took him the sandwich and was walking out the door when the instructor spoke again.
“Wait, what just happened here? What are you guys doing?”
At the end of every spring semester, college students across the nation gather for weeklong InterVarsity training conferences called Chapter Focus Weeks. And this year at my area’s chapter camp, I had the honor of team-teaching the second half of the book of Mark. For thirty hours during the week, thirty-two students and my coleader and I joined Jesus and his disciples in the struggle to understand the nature of discipleship and follow Jesus to his cross.
I didn’t expect Jesus to show up in a bar that evening. No, it wasn’t a hipster dude with a big beard. It was at my high school reunion where I reconnected with Chris—a formerly awkward and quiet student who now sported snazzy glasses, stylishly gelled hair, and an identity as an openly gay man.
I love community colleges. When I tell people I work at a community college, most seem surprised or perplexed.
I don’t know if everyone can say that they work with people who are changing the world. I can. I work with students who partner with God in bringing the truth of the gospel to their dorm communities, their apartment complexes, their classes, their intramural teams, their friends—to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and to campuses around the globe.
“. . . and well, God is in my life now,” Sam said with a smile, as she hopped out of her chair and ran around the room, holding out her hands to receive high-fives from our chapter.
Driving down Main Street in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, InterVarsity students from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC) were amazed to see two homes that had been pushed off of their foundations by the recent floods.