There is no one way to do campus ministry

Posted by tom | Sep 24, 2008

Last week when meeting with some students who are in the process of restarting a fellowship group at Penn State Harrisburg, I once again shared how each opportunity for campus ministry although with similitaries in the context of higher education is unique for a variety of reasons (e.g., type of campus, majors of those involved, diversity of campus, size of and phase of development of the ministry).  Along these lines, here's a preface to an email in which a faculty friend in Western PA gave testimony to how God connected him to and enables him to minister to students across the world:

because of the "manifold gifts of the Holy Spirit", there is no one way to do campus ministry ... everyday new doors open, new challenges, new requests, new battles ... and the awareness of being on God's side, and working alongside him, and seeing him arrange situations we could never have planned ... sometimes i think back to a chain of events that God worked out, and i can't believe we have a God capable of doing this for me when He has millions of others to care for ...

Amen!  And may God bless his work and the work of many other faculty as they follow Christ on campus today.

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