We enjoyed such rich times of fellowship and fun seeing one another in person and online at the GFM National Staff Conference this year. Thank you to the many people who put so much time, effort, prayer and planning into our meetings. Here you will find all of the resources from GFM Staff Conference as well as the conference details.
Congratulations! Your team has successfully finished Faculty Week. Here’s a guide for debriefing the week, celebrating how God has worked, and looking forward.
If you are looking for a structure for your faculty prayer gathering, consider this template that follows the Gordon T. Smith’s model for prayer from Teach Us to Pray.
Faculty Week depends on our partnership with our student leaders. Here’s a guide to help them catch the week’s vision and get excited for their role in it!
Need help drafting an email to invite a faculty member to the one-on-one or prayer gathering? Want to see a template for a follow-up email? Check out these email drafts to get you started.
You’ll find a variety of sources on this page to help you prep, run, and wrap up Faculty Week. Make sure to download the Faculty Week app, which includes to-do lists for before, during, and after the week!
In addition to the normal New Student Outreach strategies you may employ each fall, here is a list of additional strategies that you may consider, given the potential of online or hybrid school openings.
How can you engage with faculty advisors on campus? How might a faculty advisor interact with InterVarsity students and staff? Art Wollum, faculty emeritus from North Carolina State University speaks on his suggestions after four decades of experience and a lifetime of love for students, faculty, InterVarsity and the university.
Pre-conference assignments, session recordings, and a copy of the Meeting Book and Schedule for the GFM National Staff Conference. Everything you need to know, all in one convenient webpage.
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.
When GFM Boston became its own area, we engaged in a strategic planning process to discern the potential for graduate student, international, and faculty ministry. As Area Director, I had the least amount of faith for faculty ministry. My experience with faculty over the years had not been promising. It all felt impossible then. But now, I have hope.
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!
Statistics show that over 50% of Ph.D. candidates may never become tenured faculty. Many are exploring their calling to the university through alternative paths. Might GFM staff be part of God’s calling to the academy for your students?
