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.
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
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
