God and Youth

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

The church should create an on-campus presence—an extension of the church to the campus. We have a responsibility . . .  . Like it or not, the universities are primary tributaries to cultural development or demise in terms of leadership. They are a wellspring, for better or worse, of where the culture’s headed. If we ignore the university, we’re ignoring our culture.

Brady Bobbink, former Campus Minister, Western Washington University