The college campuses of the world have historically been a premier place for God to fashion for Himself laborers for the nations. The college campus is a place where young people can gather into tightly-knit communities, driven by a common purpose and pursuing a common goal. It is a place where the Lord of the Harvest has the opportunity to teach His young servants the primary lessons of faith, faithfulness, discipleship, courage, humility, evangelism, brokenness, servant-heartedness, and leadership. It is where our secret lives in God can become solid and deeply rooted. The community also provides an atmosphere where cultivating cross-cultural vision for the nations, growing in personal spiritual vitality, maturing a passion and effectiveness in evangelism, and leading and influencing others with a vision for reaching the world, are potentially experienced. When these and other disciplines are intentionally cultivated in a community setting during college, upon graduation, a multitude of prepared laborers can be released into the global harvest. These spiritually vital student mission initiatives on campuses, once networked to each other, are the widespread student missions movement necessary to accomplish the Great Commission in our lifetime.
Ryan Shaw, Waking the Giant, The Resurgence Student Missions Movement
A Premier Place for God
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Sacred Spaces
University communities of faith find themselves in dorms, student centers, classrooms, coffee bistros, pubs, parks, students’ off-campus apartments, auditoriums and eateries. These communities of faith on and off campus create sacred spaces where worship, prayer, fellowship, discipleship and mission are experienced. This type of community represents an ecclesiology that is freed from an institutional box, in order to inform and empower the missiological task – which creates sacred space and fluid structure for the multiple contexts in which communities of faith find themselves.
Dr. Anita Koeshall
AG world missionary and Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary/Evangel University
God and Youth
God also has a special interest in the youth.
Harold S. Slusher
Young people have imagination.
Youth capture vision quickly.
And they dare to believe when they are faced with the impossible. Exploding population has thrust young people into importance as never before.
Over half the world is young.
They are looking for something to believe in.
Something to live for, something if need be to die for.
The Origin of the Universe, San Diego, Institute of Creation Research, (ICR) 1978,
quoted in Rice Brooks’, Change the Campus, Change the World
