“I look at the campus as its people. It’s not just buildings or structures. It’s the students, faculty, and staff who need to know Christ.” said John Foubert, an Associate Professor of College Student Development at Oklahoma State University (OSU) in Stillwater.
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Christian faculty at Oklahoma State University want to be a visible presence on campus.
Lynn Gill calls it “the big gaping hole” of InterVarsity’s Graduate and Faculty ministry (GFM), the 16,000 graduate students at the University of Southern California (USC) who are un-served by InterVarsity or any other campus ministry. As the only area director in GFM’s western region, supervising the other four GFM staff in the region, Lynn offers USC as one example of the opportunities available for GFM in the region.
“That’s been one of my prayers for eight years now,” she said. “Who’s going to come to USC?
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Lynn Gill covers a lot of territory as an area director for InterVarsity's Graduate and Faculty Ministry.
Faculty members have all heard the stories about dying grandmothers and various other reasons that students can’t make it to class or complete an assignment. In many cases, they are just stories. In some cases the death of a grandmother, or another family tragedy, actually occurs and affects a student’s ability to complete assignments.
Students Need Someone to Listen
“I’ve been surprised at the number of times I’ve had students in my office who will be in tears about something,” said Mark Edwards, a Sociology professor at Oregon State University.
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A sociology professor relies on his experience as an InterVarsity staff worker to put a human face on a large institution.
News item: “Senior Vice Provost Santa Ono won the Brit Katz Senior Appreciation Award for his involvement in the Emory community and his ability to serve as a role model and friend to the senior class.” – The Emory Wheel newspaper, May 6, 2010
While working with Emory University students as Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Santa Ono also continues the medical research for which he trained at McGill University and Harvard.
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One of InterVarsity's newest trustees, he is recognized as a role model and friend to students at Emory University. He's also a very busy researcher and administrator.
As Jeff Barneson prepared to graduate from Stanford University in 1978 he received a job offer for “a plum job at a small firm at Newport Beach, overlooking the water.” It was the kind of job he had been hoping for when he decided on Civil Engineering as his major. But he turned it down.
Earlier in his senior year the Christian groups on campus had presented the Francis Schaeffer film series, How Should We Then Live. Schaeffer’s comment, “Of course the dominant values of American culture are personal peace and affluence,” had been haunting him for months.
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Jeff Barneson "does not shroud the generosity of the gospel" as he works among students and staff at Harvard University. Jeff has been working on the Harvard campus for more than 25 years.
At the beginning of the school year, when students consider the choice of a major and a career they may pursue after graduation, Hope College history professor Marc Baer offers guidance on how to follow God through our career choices.
To answer the question, “What is Calling?” recognizes two different types of calling for the Christian. All believers share a primary calling to love God and follow Him. I experienced that when I was 25, a few weeks after I had passed the comprehensive exams for my PhD program.
I had grown up in a non-believing family, completely outside the church.
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Vocations, careers, jobs, and work flow from the primary calling. Although our secular-minded friends, family, and neighbors wish it were not so, there is no calling without a Caller. Because there is a Caller, you have a calling.
At the beginning of 1990, InterVarsity’s New York/New Jersey region hosted a Marketplace conference at the Windows on the World restaurant on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center. Surveying the 350 students attending, who were anxious to learn more about how to follow God in their chosen careers, and looking out over the New York City skyline, Bobby Gross eagerly anticipated beginning his new appointment as regional director.
“I wanted to live in a city and wanted to be a part of what God was doing,” he said.
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Bobby Gross spent 13 years as the New York/New Jersey regional director, the longest time he has held one position in his 32-year career with InterVarsity. As of July 1, 2009, Bobby became the director of InterVarsity's Graduate and Faculty Ministry, succeeding Cam Anderson.
With about 1,000 students being reached through InterVarsity’s Graduate and Faculty chapters at Harvard, this ministry has transformed its focus for engaging the campus.
A Thriving Ministry
In Kelly Monroe’s book, Finding God at Harvard, the author sets straight the myth that Christian faith cannot thrive in a rigorous academic environment. While some may believe that it’s hard to find God at Harvard because it’s a secular institution, the evidence suggests otherwise.
InterVarsity has about 1,000 students and faculty on the mailing list for Harvard’s graduate schools alone.
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With about 1,000 students being reached through InterVarsity's Graduate and Faculty chapters at Harvard, this ministry has transformed its focus for engaging the campus.
The integration of faith and vocation, the foundation underlying InterVarsity’s Following Christ 2008 conference, was promoted at the conference in the Bosscher-Hammond awards competition. Twenty-five semi-finalists received free registration to the conference, December 27-31, 2008, in Chicago.
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The integration of faith and vocation, the foundation underlying InterVarsity's <i>Following Christ 2008</i> conference, was promoted at the conference in the Bosscher-Hammond awards competition.
In the midst of a world that doesn’t currently seem to be flourishing, the aspiration to flourish burns even more brightly. As the theme of InterVarsity’s Following Christ 2008 conference (FC08), held in Chicago, December 27-31, 2008, human flourishing was presented as God’s design and desire for humanity.
Almost 1,000 students, faculty, and professionals attended FC08. It was sponsored by InterVarsity’s Graduate and Faculty Ministry, and InterVarsity Press.
“God’s new creation not only happens to you, it also happens through you,” said Anglican bishop N.T.
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In the midst of a world that doesn't currently seem to be flourishing, the aspiration to flourish burns even more brightly. InterVarsity's <i>Following Christ 2008</i> conference focused on being as fully human as we are designed to be.
