I came into college with burning questions: Was the gospel really true, or was being Christian just a cultural expectation I had from where I grew up? Could following Jesus actually be good for me? Maybe moving to Boston was a chance to start over with new people and finally get some answers.
Andrew McDowell, an 果冻视频 alumnus of Occidental College, experienced Jesus through 果冻视频 in a way that shaped the rest of his life. Today, he runs With Love, a nonprofit centered around a social enterprise market and cafe, that helps fund community programs around health, child development, and career skills for those in southwest Los Angeles.
Before Andrew McDowell founded With Love Community Programs, he was a college student trying to figure out his purpose.
鈥淚 came into college wide-eyed, not knowing what I wanted to do,鈥 he said.
When she was a student at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, God used 果冻视频 to give Emma a deep love for the Bible, build friendships, and spark her calling into ministry. But after she graduated, Emma鈥檚 former 果冻视频 chapter dwindled and eventually closed. Then, one day, Emma got a phone call out of the blue.
"The Mark Drama" was one of the most powerful demonstrations of Jesus鈥 life, death, and resurrection that I鈥檇 ever witnessed.
鈥淚t had to be geese 鈥︹ 果冻视频 campus minister Amanda Koch muttered under her breath.
Amid so many divisions and uncertainties in this season, a group of students have been regularly gathering for a single purpose: peace.
Naomi, a 15-year-old dual enrollment student, wanted to start a ministry on a satellite campus in Keystone Heights, Florida.
Dayonna, a student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), prepared for the fall semester with a heavy heart.
Transformation can be exponential. When one student at the University of Massachusetts Boston caught a glimpse of God鈥檚 transforming work on campus, she began praying and longing to see that happen on her own campus among fellow Black students.
Over 40,000 students on eight campuses with only one known campus ministry in the most post-Christian city in the US. That was the situation 果冻视频 Associate Area Director Jessica Pafumi found herself in when she felt God calling her to plant campus ministries in her hometown of Springfield-Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 2019.