Levi and Katie Boyenger - Campus Ministry

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Levi and Katie Boyenger - Campus Ministry

Our passion is to share Jesus with college students, and see their lives transformed by His grace. College is such a pivotal time for people.

It is a time of questioning, independence, and openness. It is also dark, confusing and lonely for many. We desire students to meet and walk with Jesus during their college years, enjoying true life-giving community! In 2009, we began volunteering with Cru at Butler County Community College in El Dorado, Kansas. Five years later, we had become the coordinators of the Wichita State and Emporia Stat

e Cru groups as well. Our passion is sharing Jesus with college students, and seeing their lives transformed by His grace. As volunteers, we were limited in the amount of time we could spend investing in students; in 2014, we joined staff with Cru and moved to Manhattan, KS to be part of the Central Kansas staff team at Kansas State University. We are a caring community passionate about connecting people to Jesus Christ - we want everyone to know someone who truly follows Jesus. We welcome all who are seeking, and aren't afraid of tough questions. We seek to equip our students to be disciple-making evangelists who live out the gospel in their lives no matter where they go. Our scope isn't just K-State but also the 80,000 other students south and west of Manhattan. Our team coaches Cru movements on multiple campuses, and we are seeking to fill a need on many campuses who have no student ministries. We had our third baby May 2017, and are continuing to raise more financial support! We would love for you to join our team!

08/26/2025

Semester starting off great! Had a bunch of conversations yesterday on campus. We were asking students who Jesus is. Most didn’t really know, because a very large portion of Gen Z didnt grow up in the church. Pray that the lost would know Jesus.

08/29/2024

It’s been a great start to the semester. God really used tabling last week to bring about a lot of good conversations with students. We probably engaged with 100 some students over 2 days on what their view of God is.
Our first Bible studies are going on this week, with 19 students attending Monday night at our house. We are praying for those that couldn’t attend Monday to go to our Thursday evening studies that are led by student leaders.

06/17/2024

We ended the semester and what an end to the semester it was. With the death of my Grandpa and the death of a very dear friend in the same week, and traveling several states for funerals, it was a hard end to the semester with grieving those dear losses. We did enjoy the sweet time with friends and family and remembering those we lost, so even in a difficult time God blessed us with that. We got back from the funerals and we had barely any time to finish discipleship with our students, also our end of the year Cru get together was derailed by a tornado. We are always thankful that God is in control, and we know He has the best plan. Pray for students as they go through the Summer. Summer can be very difficult for students spiritually, pray that they would grow and not stagnate.
We have been preparing to head to Florida to take seminary classes as part of our ongoing training with Cru. We will be traveling today and tomorrow. Pray for safety and no travel problems. We got the whole family on this trip, which will be fun.

11/27/2023

"I want to talk about the most important concept in the whole Bible. That’s quite a claim, isn’t it? But without grasping this concept, you cannot be right with God, because it is the basis of all God’s dealings with us. Without understanding this concept you can’t have consistent victory over sin. You will struggle with guilt, you will lack joy, you will lack motivation to serve God, if you do not understand and apply this concept to your walk with God. I am referring to the glorious truth of the grace of God.
God’s grace is not some stuffy theological doctrine to be filed away in your set of notes. It is the most practical, beautiful truth in all of God’s Word. It ought to be at the core of your daily experience with God. Grace seeks us where we’re at, brings us to the King’s presence, and keeps us for the King’s return." -Steven J. Cole

Gods grace is very misunderstood in our culture and in our evangelical culture as well. It is used to justify licentiousness (When people say, "Don't judge me", "God has forgiven me, so I can do whatever I want"). It is used to justify legalism ("They give lip service to grace but live under the strangle hold of legalism. Their lives deny the joy that comes from knowing God’s grace." This often results in people pushing their moral, yet not quite Biblical worldview on others, and selling it as Bible. Think when people say Christians don't watch movies, Christians don't say that, or dress that way, or read those kinds of books, or the worst, Christians aren't friends with those people.). But when we read the Bible, we see the grace of God as foremost in our daily walk, and is key to understanding our Lord and Savior. Romans 2:4 is clear as is Ephesians 2:8-9, grace is why we were saved and grace is what leads us to repentance. In a world that doesn't understand grace, we as followers of Jesus have to shine Gods grace into the darkness. This is how we disciple our students and this is how we talk to those who are seeking Jesus.

11/02/2023

I love that Cru keeps the gospel at the center of its ministry. Our leadership has not wavered in the face of continuing cultural change, or pressure from evangelicals. Cru has kept the gospel the key and most important reason for why we do ministry. Here is an email we got this morning from Dela Adadevoh, Vice President of Global Leadership with Cru.

“Calling has to do with our raison d’être; that is, our reason for existence. Two things we cannot change as an organization are our Statement of Faith and our calling. We may change some wordings of our calling, but we cannot change the substance of it. We cannot intentionally violate our calling without acknowledging that we have become a different organization. We therefore have to remain true to our calling at all times.
“Our calling is to help fulfill the Great Commission by winning, building and sending in the power of the Holy Spirit, and helping the body of Christ do evangelism and discipleship.
“The fulfillment of the Great Commission is different from participation in the Great Commission. God has not called us to be a huge organization, or to establish ministry presence in all countries. We may be both of these and more, but only because they prove to be necessary means to completing the Great Commission. Our calling has to do with the completion of the Great Commission.
“We help fulfill the Great Commission by our direct involvement in the winning, building and sending of Christ-centered multiplying disciples who will launch spiritual movements. We also play a catalytic role in equipping and resourcing the rest of the body of Christ, as God enables us, to make optimal contributions to our collective efforts to obey our Lord’s command. We are also ready to be equipped and enabled by other members of the body of Christ to make our best core contributions to the fulfillment of the Great Commission. This is the spirit of reciprocal partnership.
“The Great Commission can only be fulfilled in our generation if all of God’s people use all of God’s resources to reach all of God’s world.
“In both our direct and catalytic roles, we totally depend on the Holy Spirit for wisdom and power. We are instruments that God is using to accomplish His mission. The more dependent we are on God, the stronger the demonstration of the power of His Spirit in changing lives with the good news of Jesus Christ. The words of Jesus to His disciples make this point clear:
“‘When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—He will testify about Me. And you also must testify, for you have been with Me from the beginning’ (John 15:26-27, NIV).
“The Holy Spirit is the main witness. He will testify about Christ. We as disciples also testify, but we must keep in mind that the Holy Spirit is the main witness. We must work in partnership with the Holy Spirit by allowing Him to have full access and control of our lives. He is then able to work mightily through us to touch and transform other lives and destinies for the glory of the Father.”

08/09/2023

We just recently finished our first sabbatical. Our sabbatical ran from June 1st to August 1st. It was a great time catching up on stuff we wanted to get done around the house, but haven't had the time to do with the busyness of the last 10 years of campus ministry. It was also a time to rest and breathe for the first time in a while. We also intentionally spent a ton of time with the kids, which was really fun. We feel refreshed and ready to start the fast approaching semester. This is a new feeling, as we are usually ending campus stuff mid May, with only 7 days of reprieve and packing before we have to get to Summer Mission. Summer Mission usually lasts through mid July. Then we only have a week to unpack and get the kids ready for school, and get our staff team ready for college students coming back into town. So having 2 months of rest, instead of rushing to and from Summer Mission, feels amazing!

Hebrews 4 talks a lot about rest and sabbath. In the same chapter, it also talks about not hardening your hearts. I think often we miss that hardened hearts comes from not resting, and resting in who our Savior is. This sabbatical has done just that, softened hearts and allowed rest.

05/18/2023

2 months ago if you were to ask us how ministry was going, we would have responded with a nice, "It is going okay". We were experiencing students not committing to anything for multiple semesters, and from our experience, not growing at all (after years of discipleship for some of them). Ending this semester has been very encouraging and life giving, and since we have so little faith, we were surprised at the massive movements God made in the hearts of students. God has done a lot of work in our hearts and the hearts of the students we have in discipleship. We knew back then that God never stops working, and He cares for our students more than we do, but often times it is hard to see that, when in a state of constant conflict and constant non growth. Leading people is always hard, and leading them to our Savior is even harder. We have a saying in Cru, it is "Successful ministry is faithful ministry". We truly believe that numbers and people coming to Christ are not what show a healthy, or thriving ministry (Jesus works through everything, He is God, and nothing else is. Some of the unhealthiest churches and ministries we have seen over the last 20 years were very large and God used their sin and unhealth to bring people to Himself). We cannot make people come to anything, and we do not save people, so we cannot count it successful when those things are happening (this is obviously what we are working towards, but we don't change hearts). This is a humbling position to take, and we think the Biblical one as we do campus ministry across the state of Ks. We have seen over 20 students commit to discipleship, and 6 wanting to actually lead! We have seen our staff trust their Savior in ways that are stretching and growing, and we have seen God change our own hearts, to get rid of pride and to walk humbly with Him.

"Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. 9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you."

04/24/2023

“We get sloppy in our thinking and we tend to slip into thinking our access to God is based on our performance. But it’s maintained by Jesus alone. It has nothing to do with our works.” - Pastor Brian

Pride and arrogance are so prevelant in our culture and especially in the church. These last few semesters have given us pause, and caused us to reflect on our own pride. It’s always humbling to lead people. Students especially have their own unique challenges that have pushed us to pray more and lead humbly. God’s word is always the pride breaker and brings actual humility. We’ve learned that our performance, the ministry numbers don’t matter, over what our Savior is doing in our own lives and the students around us.

02/16/2023

Cru Team Leader training:
Isaiah 61:1-3, “They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of His splendor.”

“Moral purity or failure at its core is not about behavior, but rather an orientation to God and His design for life.”

Very humbling to process leadership in a biblical learning environment like Cru. How we view God, will determine if we are a good leader. Am I angry, belittling, destroying, conflict avoidance, arrogant as a leader? If I am, then my view of God is off, and I have walked away from His design for my life.

02/09/2023

Photo dump from Winter Conference, ministry stuff and Tabling on campus.

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