God is moving in Arizona! This year, Challenge AZ is partnered with 20 local churches reaching out to 24 college campuses. There are 35 missionaries spearheading these ministries. Below is an update from Ellie Lambert, Campus Missionary at Arizona State University’s downtown campus. “At the end of 2025, I celebrated 5 years of serving with […]
Several years ago, I rode shotgun in a church van during our town’s big music festival. We were doing “safe rides” back to campus—because nothing says college ministry like the combination of a church van, a late-night Taco Bell run, and a student who may or may not remember the ride the next morning. Shelby,
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As a kid, Japan captured my imagination. Many weekends of my childhood were spent watching grainy black-and-white Godzilla movies between Super Nintendo marathons with my neighborhood crew. I can recall vividly the thrill of tearing open packs of Pokémon cards, hoping to pull the elusive first edition Charizard. In the summer of 2001, I marveled
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This school year has brought about some new challenges in our world of international students. Across the United States, the number of international students has greatly declined because of the political climate. It wasn’t a surprise, but we have seen its effects now. However, this past Thanksgiving was wonderful! At Purdue University, we have a
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Two of my most formative years in ministry happened on a university campus in the Pacific Northwest. In our early years of ministry, my wife and I served through an initiative of the North American Mission Board aimed at engaging university students in Seattle, Washington. Our assignment was the University of Washington, which, honestly, functioned
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Baptist Collegiate Ministry (BCM) is kicking off the fall semester of ministry with gospel-fueled, welcome week events on campuses across the state. In Little Rock, the BCM kicked off the school year with a jam-packed welcome week. They started with an ice cream social, where they saw over 130 unique individuals connecting with others inside
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Fall is one of the most strategic times of the year for mobilizing students to serve on mission. Students who commit early have the time to pray, prepare, and plan. The college ministries that send the most students do not stumble into success. They build a sending culture that starts early and continues all year.
When we suffer, we are prone to doubt either that God exists or that God loves us. We need to understand that doubts are not uncommon for disciples of Jesus. This is abundantly clear from reading the Bible. The people of Israel—with Moses leading them—doubted even after they had seen the plagues and the Red
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If you do college ministry at a 4-year university, your campus probably has Greek life. A lot of ministers want to connect with Greek life, but it sure can be difficult! In this article, I hope to give you some tips on how to grow your ministry’s presence in your campus Greek life. For context,
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It was the first Monday night of the fall semester, and the Student Activities Department’s street dance had just kicked off. Forty students from our BCM leadership team—charged with being ambassadors of the gospel—were running the concession stand, mingling with the crowd, and having a great time. That’s when I noticed Joe, sitting alone on
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