A New Phase for InterVarsity's Faculty Ministry
In response to God’s love, grace, and truth: The purpose of InterVarsity
Christian Fellowship/USA is to establish and advance at colleges and universities
witnessing communities of students and faculty who follow Jesus as Savior and Lord: growing in love for God, God’s Word, God’s people of every ethnicity and culture,
and God’s purposes in the world.
Building witnessing communities of faculty on America’s college and university campuses
is integral to InterVarsity’s purpose. Stan Wallace, the third director of Faculty Ministry,
has drawn together six InterVarsity staff to serve with him on a leadership team for the
ministry, and together with a work group of eight faculty partners they are laying a foundation
for the next phase of InterVarsity’s ministry among faculty.
In June 2004, the leadership team and workgroup (pictured above) gathered at Cedar Campus,
InterVarsity’s training center in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and began the task of charting
the ministry’s future. Their strategic planning process has continued through monthly
conference calls and extended email and web forum conversations.
After many months of prayer, fasting, reflection, dialogue, and debate, the Faculty Ministry
Leadership Team, on January 7, 2005, formally adopted a mission statement that is intended to
guide the development of Faculty Ministry over the next thirty years.
The ratification of this mission statement represents a significant milestone. Now that it
is in place, the leadership team and workgroup will turn their attention to writing a vision
statement that outlines the specific, concrete ways in which Faculty Ministry will seek to
fulfill its mission, all with the hope of significantly expanding InterVarsity’s ministry among
faculty and truly having a redemptive influence among the people, ideas, and structures of the
academy.
Posted on: Jan 14, 2005
Last modified on: Jan 20, 2005
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