Humbled by Recognition

This past weekend Paul and I attended a few graduation ceremonies of the schools we serve, marking the end of the school year. It’s been a wonderful year and this past month three of our fellowships got recognized by their respective campus student bodies for their work in serving the campus. Students at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences voted InterVarsity as the “Organization of the Year” on campus (see photo on right). It’s an award that is usually given to the professional organizations and clubs at the college so we’re grateful to God that the activities and outreaches of the fellowship have been noticed by the larger campus community and has impacted it positively.

The two InterVarsity fellowships at BU, InterVarsity-multiethnic and Asian-American Christian Fellowship, co-sponsored an event called “Injustice” in March. They put on a daylong event that included interactive displays, testimonies, and group discussion about the issues that three of their students saw while on a mission trip to Uganda last summer. (See more about this event at http://people.bu.edu/buaacf/main.html). At such a large university, there are many, many, many events put on each year by the 400 student groups that exist, but BU’s Student Union Allocation Board voted unanimously that InterVarsity’s “Injustice” event be named the “Program of the Year” for the quality of the event and participation.

Our vision is that the InterVarsity groups we lead would engage and impact the campus. We are extremely grateful to God that the groups we are growing on campus are not “holy huddles” in the corner, but are front and center on campus.