white supremacy / en Bringing New Life to Every Corner of Every Campus /news/bringing-new-life-every-corner-every-campus <div class="layout layout--twocol-section layout--twocol-section--33-67"> <div class="layout__region layout__region--first"> <nav role="navigation" aria-labelledby="-menu" class="_none block block-menu navigation menu--about-us-menu"> <h2 class="visually-hidden" id="-menu">About Us Menu</h2> <ul class="clearfix nav" data-component-id="bootstrap_barrio:menu"> <li class="nav-item"> <a href="/about-us/what-we-believe" class="nav-link nav-link--about-us-what-we-believe" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/9386">What We Believe</a> </li> <li class="nav-item"> <a href="/about-us/our-purpose" class="nav-link nav-link--about-us-our-purpose" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/6927">Our Purpose</a> </li> <li class="nav-item"> <a href="/about-us/financial-info" title="Financial Info" class="nav-link nav-link--about-us-financial-info" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/6926">Financial Info</a> </li> <li class="nav-item"> <a href="/about-us/2022-2023-annual-report" class="nav-link nav-link--about-us-2022-2023-annual-report" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/4976">2022-2023 Annual Report</a> </li> <li class="nav-item"> <a href="/about-us/leadership" class="nav-link nav-link--about-us-leadership" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/6928">Leadership</a> </li> <li class="nav-item"> <a href="/about-us/intervarsity-and-ifes-history" class="nav-link nav-link--about-us-intervarsity-and-ifes-history" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/6925">ñ and IFES History</a> </li> <li class="nav-item"> <a href="/about-us/news" class="nav-link nav-link--about-us-news" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/6929">News</a> </li> <li class="nav-item menu-item--collapsed"> <a href="/about-us/press-room" class="nav-link nav-link--about-us-press-room" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/6931">Press Room</a> </li> <li class="nav-item"> <a href="/contact" class="nav-link nav-link--contact" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/9383">Contact Us</a> </li> </ul> </nav> </div> <div class="layout__region layout__region--second"> <div class="_none block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenewsfield-news-type"> <div class="content"> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/2103" hreflang="en">Press Room</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="_none block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenewstitle"> <div class="content"> <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden"><h1>Bringing New Life to Every Corner of Every Campus</h1></span> </div> </div> <div class="_none block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenewsfield-square-image"> <div class="content"> <div class="field field--name-field-square-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/300x169/public/news/2017.08.09_Matt%20Kirk_0093_small.jpg?itok=MtjutwmC" width="298" height="169" alt loading="lazy" class="image-style-_00x169"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="_none block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenewsbody"> <div class="content"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>(Madison, WI) --&nbsp; ñ’s ministry vision includes not only transformation for students and faculty but renewal for the college campus.</p> <p>“Universities bring life-changing wisdom, insight, and discovery to the world,” said Tom Lin, president of ñ. “We long for Christian faculty and students to contribute their God-given gifts to these efforts. As this past weekend at University of Virginia demonstrates, universities also serve as the backdrop for ideas and idols that deface and destroy life. We believe the Gospel calls us to confront and denounce sins like white supremacy. We also want to offer the transforming hope of repentance and new life to the people who propagate these ideologies.”</p> <p>With a new <a href="/leadership">six-member Executive Leadership Team</a> and 10 new vice presidents assembled over the past year, ñ has reaffirmed our commitment to our vision of transformation and renewal. “We are longing to see God bring new life in new ways on campuses across the country, and to catalyze movements that call every corner of every campus to follow Jesus,” Lin said, as he reflected on <a href="/news/tom-lin-commissioned-president">his first year as president</a>. “We want to see systems and structures, ideas and idols change. These leaders will help us steward our values even more closely, respond to God’s invitations more nimbly, and lead God’s mission on campus more joyfully,”</p> <p>To meet the challenge of reaching every campus, ñ also has a record number of staff serving a record number of colleges, with 1341 staff ministering on 687 campuses. At the same time, the number of people coming to faith through ñ’s campus ministry is at its highest ever in ñ’s 76-year history—up 12 percent from one year ago, up 130 percent from 10 years ago.</p> <p>To reach more campuses, ñ is pursuing new partnerships: “How can we best partner in reaching the approximately 2,600 campuses currently unreached by any major campus ministry?” Lin asked. “Could we empower more churches and other ministries to work alongside us to reach the campus? Beyond U.S. partnerships, what could God do if we more intentionally sought out best thinking and practices from our sister movements in the <a href="https://ifesworld.org/en">International Fellowship of Evangelical Students</a>?”</p> <p>In his travels during his first year as president, Lin said that he has heard regularly from people he meets about how ñ staff and <a href="https://www.ivpress.com/">ñ Press</a> books have changed their lives. But he stressed that student-driven ministry is the heart of ñ’s mission. “Our chapter planting leadership team has done an amazing job creating a planting culture in ñ,” he said. “Not just staff but student leaders are catching the vision and reaching out to neighboring campuses. These students are not simply sheep to be gathered, but seed to be scattered.”</p> <p>ñ is an interdenominational ministry to students and faculty on U.S. college and university campuses, working with more than 41,000 core students and faculty on 687 campuses nationwide. ñ is a founding member of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, advancing Christian student work in 160 countries. ñ is also a charter member of the <a href="http://www.ecfa.org/">Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability</a>.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="_none block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenewsfield-news-keywords"> <div class="content"> <div class="field field--name-field-news-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News Keywords</div> <div class="field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/932" hreflang="en">Leadership</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/826" hreflang="en">Evangelism</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1015" hreflang="en">Planting</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/2181" hreflang="en">outreach</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/2182" hreflang="en">partnerships</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/901" hreflang="en">ñ Press</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/2183" hreflang="en">white supremacy</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/2184" hreflang="en">Charlottesville</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1179" hreflang="en">University of Virginia</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/2185" hreflang="en">renew</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/2186" hreflang="en">vision</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/2187" hreflang="en">transformation</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 15 Aug 2017 13:22:12 +0000 gordon.govier@intervarsity.org 8999 at