Why College Ministry?
96% of College Students in America are Unacquainted with the Gospel
Our Motivation
There are over 5000 Universities in the U.S. and over 21 million students enrolled in universities. Less than 4% of them have a biblical worldview. It's staggering.
The harvest is plentiful,
but the laborers are few.
A Crisis on Campus
In the last 30 years, college students have become much less religious. Roughly 70% of high school students who enter college as professing Christians will leave college with little to no faith.* These are disturbing trends that have given us a sense of urgency to bring the Gospel in compelling ways back to the college campus.
*Barna Research Group (2022)
Disturbing trends on college campuses…
“The number of those (18-26 years old) who claim no religious affiliation (the ‘nones’)….is the largest (36%) single category of response when asked about their religious faith .”
— Pew Research (2014)
“A national survey of college students found that nearly 40 percent experienced depression. One in three reported having had anxiety, and one in seven said they’d thought about suicide in the past year.”
— American Public Media
“Around 20 percent of female undergraduates are victims of sexual assault or sexual misconduct at some point during their college life.”
— Survey from the Association of American Universities (2019)
Our Mission
An Acts 2 Church In Every College Town
It was this moonshot vision that compelled many of our members to go on a church plant, often leaving higher paying jobs and the comforts of the Bay Area to go to the next church plant destination.
Need for College Revival
College campuses were once brimming with students leading the way to spiritual revival. They are an overlooked mission field. We are working hard to reclaim the original mission on many of these campuses: to raise up ministers of the Gospel in their generation.
Fulfilling the Great Commission
Throughout history, the heroes of faith have gone to unreached places far and wide at great personal cost to share the Gospel.
It is our commitment to follow in their legacy of faith and go to the places of religious indifference and even hostility, which for us is the college campus.
Our Answer
Collegiate Level Faith
We created a course that explores the intellectual foundations of the Christian faith. We address many of the questions college students might have had growing up but never received a satisfactory answer.
Course 101
Course 101 is a 7-week course on the intellectual foundations of Christianity and a space for conversation about life, faith, the Bible, and God
National College Retreats
We have hosted several national retreats for college students including our very first online retreat - RISE 2020 where students from over 200 colleges were represented!
Our History
It all began in 2007 with our first church plant in Hsinchu, Taiwan and our first domestic plant at the Univ. of Texas in Austin. Since then we have planted on 73 campuses in 18 states!
Many of our members were galvanized to go plant churches in college towns through vision trips. This is a recap from 2014.
