Even though life in Tübingen, Germany, slows down in August and September while the local university is on summer break, new campus minister Kathryn Wurst has learned that the Unterwegs campus house rarely stays empty for long.
Recent Georgia Tech graduate Lauren Hessler thought she was going to start looking for a great job as a biomedical engineer, but instead she’s going to serve college students at the Roots campus ministry in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Mitchell grew up as the son of CMF missionaries Todd and Tonja Hancock in Mexico, so his fluency in Spanish will be a huge asset to the campus ministry team in Salamanca, Spain. In addition, his Milligan College degree that focused on photojournalism and graphic design will aid the team in its ministry to university students.
Seventy-two campus ministers gathered in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, in July for Globalscope’s annual Celebration. Members of the Globalscope steering committee, CMF staffers, invited guests, and children brought the total to 121 CMF-related people who were together in Cholula for the entire week.
As she closed out her summer as a REACH intern with Grapevine, the Globalscope campus ministry in Bangkok, Thailand, Burgundy Zorn reflected on some of the events that helped her realize that her stay, while brief, had made a difference for God.
Brett McClain didn’t grow up in the church but connected with God at Christian Campus Fellowship at Georgia Tech. He’s now an experienced campus minister after serving with CCF for the past two years and is passionate about it. He knows the kind of life change that can happen there, “because it happened to me!”
“Guys, I prayed for something and it actually happened!” said Globalscope campus minister Abigail Bullinger in a recent update to her partners.
Victoria Bolduc has spent the last few years of her life overseas, doing missions in different cultural contexts like Kenya, Cambodia, Thailand and Central America, so she knows what it feels like to be a minority or an outsider.
Several Globalscope campus ministry students have recently stepped up to visit other Globalscope teams for varying lengths of time to gather ideas and inspiration to take back home. Globalscope Assistant Director Kami Reed shares two students’ stories and perspectives here, along with comments from their home ministry leaders.
Kevin Jones grew up in Los Angeles, so naturally as a kid he dreamed of being part of the entertainment industry or a marine biologist.