Don’t know much about the Netherlands? You’ve come to the right place!
The newest Globalscope campus ministry will launch in Maastricht, Netherlands, next year. And our newest team is here to share a few fun facts about the city they will call home in 2021. FYI, it’s a no to wooden clogs and lederhosen but a yes to bicycles!
When civil engineer Heidi Wallace learned about Globalscope’s exchange semester program at a board meeting of her college campus ministry, her initial reaction was disappointment that she didn’t know about it when she was a student.
“Much like you in the U.S.,” says Globalscope campus minister Tim Crabtree “our lives and work have seen drastic changes recently.”
In Tübingen, Germany, home of an Unterwegs campus ministry, strict measures are in place for people to stay at home and most businesses are closed. And non-profits like churches and Unterwegs cannot open again for meetings until mid-June, which will be about halfway through the summer semester.
Tori Anderson became a believer while attending a Christian campus group in college, so she has a real passion for sharing Jesus with university students.
When Globalscope campus minister Tony Cole started to write “April” in the subject line of a recent email to his U.S. ministry partners he found himself laughing, because, as he puts it, “it seems like every day is like a month now! I’m just going to call it “Corona-Time.”
Taylor Roush first connected with CMF Globalscope on a short-term trip to the El Pozo campus ministry in Puebla, Mexico, and knew that the awesome community she found there was “what I wanted my life to look like!”
“College ministry changed everything for me,” says Joseph Hoffman. Now he and his wife Lizzie are part of a team that will help create a place where students from all over the world can connect with God, develop community and find meaning in their lives.
Greg and Eli Klass grew up thousands of miles apart, but the Christian influences in their young lives led both of them to the Globalscope El Oasis campus ministry in Santiago, Chile. That’s where they met, married, and now serve together. They recently stopped by our home office for a visit and shared a little about how it happened, how it works, and the amazing new thing they will be doing together.
Although they are spread out over three different countries, the CMF Globalscope campus ministers in Uruguay, Chile and Mexico share a common language and similar context and mission. The idea of getting together to share dreams and ideas that has been on the back burner for a couple of years finally gelled into the first-ever Latinscope in Lima, Peru, in early February.
Campus ministry “wasn’t on my radar at all” says Canvas Nottingham team leader Christine Barber, who was studying to be a teacher. Then a trusted friend suggested she try a semester as an exchange intern with the Globalscope campus ministry in Birmingham, England.