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What could happen if a small group of praying professors met on every campus in this nation? What would happen to academia? How might campuses be renewed? What could happen for student ministry? We dream of a nationwide faculty prayer movement with the 2030 Calling, believing EVERY campus deserves praying faculty.

Top 10 Reasons Faculty Are Crucial to Our Mission

Kathy Tuan-MacLean shares the Top 10 reasons faculty are crucial to InterVarsity's mission.

Tags: Mission Memo | Faculty Ministry | Faculty Catalysts | Faculty Prayer Groups

Christian Faculty Want to Partner With You

“Faculty who are serious about their faith are constantly thinking about how to live out their faith in their workplace—the campus...but may need your guidance, especially on how to reach the current generation of students.” -Fred Hickernell, Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology. Kathy Tuan-MacLean, Director of Faculty Ministry, invites you, GFM staff, to read Fred's Letter to Campus Staff that was posted on the InterVarsity Staff website.

Tags: Faculty Ministry | Campus Staff

In Longing for Revival, We Engage the Head, Heart, and Hands

In the midst of a fractured and polarized world, our work on campus nurtures the new life of God's work in the whole person: head, heart, and hands. Anna Lee-Winans shares how expanding the ministry does not have to come at the exclusion of an engagement of the whole person.

Tags: Mission Memo

A Few Good Ways to Connect with Grad Students and Faculty

By now, most of you have settled into the new academic year. NSO events are winding down and you are catching your breath after initiating lots of conversations and drinking more cups of coffee than you care to remember. As you follow up with new graduate students and faculty, a pithy email pointing to excellent resources will serve them and not add too much to your already overly full calendar.

Tags: Mission Memo

Fostering Third Threshold Conversions With International Scholars

In InterVarsity, we often think of evangelism in terms of the five thresholds. In the world of international student ministry, we’ve found that many internationals cross the first and second thresholds (‘trusting a Christian” and “becoming curious about Jesus”). Fewer internationals cross the third threshold – from closed to open to change.

Tags: International Students | Evangelism

3 Ways to Prepare Students for Grad School

Many of InterVarsity alumni headed to graduate school do not feel prepared for what’s to come. Here are three things we can do can do to alleviate (some of) their anxiety nightmares.

Tags: graduate school | Grad student | Graduate student

Reaching Faculty on Campus

“We faculty struggle to witness on our own, but it is easier with InterVarsity staff partners.” Christian Faculty have the potential to be crucial ministry partners helping you further reach every corner of campus. May you find these tools and resources beneficial in your ministry to faculty.

Tags: Faculty Ministry | Faculty Outreach | Ministry Partnership | MPD | Every Corner

Faculty in the Mission of InterVarsity

The first of InterVarsity's twelve core values identifies the university as our missional context and declares: "We are called to be a redeeming influence among its people, ideas, and structures." You know who else is called to our mission field, by the thousands? Christian faculty and administrators!

Tags: Faculty Advisor | Faculty Catalysts | Faculty Outreach

Encouraging Students in the Academic Journey

Do the students in your fellowship ever struggle to find connections between their faith and their studies? Do they sometimes feel like profs don’t understand their beliefs?

Tags: Emerging Scholars Network | ESN | Urbana

Faculty Ministry: A Game Changer in Undergrad Ministry

By Audrey Chan, Team Lead, Pacific Region

Tags: Faculty

Law School Ministry: Renewing the Campus, Changing the World

Law students play a crucial role in shaping the institutions of our society through their work in the legal profession. These stories highlight the potential this ministry has to influence the campus, the legal profession, and the world.

Tips to Effectively Engage Christian Professors

Where does engaging faculty fit into your ministry? Incorporating faculty is an integral part of our ministry with both undergrad and grad students, and summer is often a great time to meet faculty. Schedules are packed and to-do lists are a mile long so here are 6 tips to get your started.

Tags: Faculty | Faculty Ministry | New Faculty Outreach | Campuses Renewed

How to Equip Chinese Students to Return Home

How can we train Chinese international students to return home as mature and loving members of the body of Christ in China?

Serving our STEM Sisters

If we believe that God has gifted many women with both the ability and the desire to invest their lives for the sake of Jesus in a STEM field and that the university (and wider culture) will be well served if they do, how can our InterVarsity communities be places of encouragement and empowerment? How can we provide some of the support they need to stick it out in these disciplines?

Ask, Seek, Knock

The rewards of seeking out the friendly faces, the allies for campus ministry among the faculty members on your campus.

Online and On Campus: Growing our Ministry with Women

Our mission is to challenge, encourage, and support women through ministry online at The Well and on campus in graduate student and faculty communities.

Is It Time to Change?

If your tried-and-true methods of ministry are less successful this year, see whether these questions give you a fresh perspective.

InterVarsity's Gift to the World

Multiple times, I’ve heard people outside of our movement call inductive Bible study “InterVarsity’s gift to the Church.” I think that’s true. But as I’ve led internationals in Bible study, I’ve also come to see it as our gift to the whole world.

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