Joining Gospel Choirs: Three Portraits

In our last issue, Alex Anderson, director of InterVarsity’s Black Campus Ministries, talked about the value of gospel choirs on campus. We asked for your stories and experiences. Here are three, and we’d love to hear more!

Gospel choirs can be a place of rich spiritual growth and ministry to others, as you’ll see in Tracey’s story. But gospel choirs attract a variety of students who are at many different points of faith and life. Sometimes the high expectations for spiritual vitality can lead to frustration by those committed to the development of deeper faith, as in our second story. And some gospel choirs embrace the challenge of racial diversity that testifies to God’s love, as seen in the third story. Whether life-changing, frustrating or challenging, these three portraits represent gospel choirs where God works to transform his people, and God’s people respond by singing his praises to the campus world.