College students are the most moldable, malleable, and movemental demographic today, and that students (compelled by the gospel) are awaiting an invitation and pathway to leverage their lives for the expansion of God’s Kingdom.
Brian Frye, “Five Misconceptions about Collegiate Church Planting,” Collegiate Collective, October 23, 2017. www.CollegiateCollective.com.
“There’s no place in the world like the university campus. It’s a colorful conglomeration of highly educated individuals, young formidable minds, and a rich diversity in backgrounds, ethnicities, religious beliefs, priorities and more. It is thick with potential . . . students are encountering new people, new places, and new experiences . . .all of which have the potential to shape them and mold them during this highly formative season.”
Guy Chmieleski, Faith on Campus
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
