As your leadership team plans service projects for your chapter, please consider these questions as you explore the immediate and long-term impact your project will have.
If sharing your faith is awkward, now there is an app for that! Here is a creative way to explain God’s good news using your smartphone or tablet. Find at your fingertips a contemporary, interactive gospel presentation created by InterVarsity. Download the Big Story App and see how easy it is to explain the essence of Christian faith. Tutorial included. Free on iOS and Android.
Challenge your group to watch both of these short presentations and practice sharing with each other so you're more comfortable talking about your faith with others.
Challenge your chapter to grow in their faith by joining other students to pray for classmates and other students around the world. Get a bigger picture of what it means to follow Jesus with others and be a part of what God is doing on your campus. Watch this 2100 video, You are part of something bigger. Show it to your group and step out in bold faith this year.
Each year, the 154 IFES movements around the world—including InterVarsity in the U.S.—join together for World Student Day. On Friday, October 17th, we will pray with one another, for one another, and for campus ministry around the world. Make plans now for your chapter to participate. Watch the video with more information and sign up here to get connected. This handbook has more resources and ideas.
Dr. Kent Brantley will be one of the speakers at the Global Health Missions Conference November 6-8 in Louisville, KY. Learn more about all the speakers and how to attend with members of your chapter.
Save-the-Date: December 27-31, 2015
Explore God's global mission with 16,000 others in St. Louis by attending the Urbana 15 missions conference. Get your questions answered at healthcare missions seminars. Talk with exhibitors from a wide variety of medical mission agencies. Dr. Patrick Fung, a medical missionary among Muslims with OMF, will serve as Bible expositor for the conference.
Planning Service Projects: Questions to Consider
You are part of something bigger
World Student Day is October 17, 2014