Collegiate ministry is a lot of things: it is inspiring, funky, hilarious, and weird. It is high-energy, world-changing, tear-jerking, life-altering. It is where students can pray, ask, respond, listen, laugh, cry, wonder, and be who God made them to be. It is for Jesus freaks, skeptics, Christians, atheists, doubters, and wanderers. It gives students a space for worship, questions, fears, anxieti
es, hopes, and dreams. It reminds us—whether or not we’re in college—that we are not alone, that we are not forgotten, that we are loved, that we matter. And so, we, the Church, will walk alongside students as they seek to understand Jesus. We will listen to the truth that they tell, which is wild, untamed, risky, and exhilarating, while also teaching and offering them our own understanding of who God is. Not only will we name God’s radical love for college students, but we will encourage a way of life proclaiming that God is on the move in the world, for the world, for all of us.
