Universities are Primary Tributaries

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

It takes a long time to build a college movement, 3-5 years to get going, 10-12 years to become established. We need leaders who will choose to invest in a college campus . . . Who will labor on college campuses for the next 10 to 20 to 30 years? The question I ask myself: Is this the best stewardship of my life for maximum gospel impact? Is this the best return I can get on the investment of my life? And the answers so far have always been “yes” because I believe God has chosen college students as His primary vehicle in accelerating the evangelism of the world.

Tim Casteel, campus minister, a contributor to Collegiate Collective