Stories from Campus

Luke identified three common themes his students have been praying for: more people coming to faith in Jesus, the chapter growing in numbers, and their fellowship becoming more diverse.

With dark brown skin, a welcoming smile, and a cup of bubble tea in hand, the image titled Boba Jesus has prompted some unusual questions. And wherever Stephan Teng has set up this cardboard cutout on Cornell University’s campus, students have been quick to follow.

“I’m walking on a campus that’s been saturated in prayer and I could tell,” Meg said.

The University of Alabama (UA)—Alabama Area Director Clayton Cullaton slumped against the folding table, set up in the middle of the student center. In his hands was a whiteboard with “What’s your purpose?” scrawled in red marker.

Crowds of students passed him by, earbuds in, eyes straight ahead. Clayton had managed to get curious looks from a couple people. But even after he waved them over, most kept going.

He glanced down at the whiteboard with a sigh. This year’s New Student Outreach (NSO), like the past few before it, was off to a frustrating start.

George Stulac has spent nearly five years connecting Christian faculty to each other. At the same time, he's seen God moving powerfully among faculty of universities across the St. Louis area. 

Halloween in Columbia, Missouri, is much like Halloween anywhere else. Pop-up stores appear in non-descript strip malls, filled with the standard array of ghoulish kitsch: witch masks and Jack Skeletons, string cobwebs and tombstones. At dusk, trick-or-treaters swarm neighborhoods like costumed locusts. Candy is given out and eaten, as often by parents as by the children that collect it. 

Montana is not Alaska or Texas, but it's still a pretty big state. A 3,290-mile road trip is not long enough to visit every campus in the state although it’s a good start.