Category Archives: Staff’s Reflections

SDSU Staff Team 2010-2011 (left to right: Casey, Aaron, Kristina, Beau, Natalie, Gent)

This was a great year on campus. God is moving powerfully and SDSU is becoming a place of spiritual growth. Below are a few different categories of reflection on how the year went for InterVarsity at San Diego State.

Conversion

We saw many students make decisions for Christ this year. 20 students who made decisions for Christ are being disciple and are an integral part of our fellowship. This is probably the area that we are most proud of on campus. We have done a much better job of counting conversion, following a student up, and making sure they are discipled. We no longer just count a hand in a crowd or a

Sean came to faith this year!

prayer prayed. We want to know they have truly accepted Christ and are not just having a spiritual awakening moment. We have come to find that 9/10 students who raise their hand in a crowd to receive Christ are not actually receiving Christ. When we follow them up to talk about what it means to turn your life over to Jesus, 9/10 are resistant to the idea and explain to us that they had an awakening moment and are now open to Jesus and want to explore more but don’t want him to be Lord of their life yet. That is fine, but it is not a conversion. They are a seeker of Jesus. Follow up is so important on campus! We can confidently say that 20 students turned their life over to Jesus this year as Lord and Savior.

Student Leadership

This year we had 28 student leaders on campus working with InterVarsity and Greek InterVarsity. 8 of those leaders were Greek. We had students leading Bible studies and prayer groups in every dorm but one on campus, we reached into 18 different Greek houses and we were present in different cultural clubs, day time activities and school leadership. Our students really had a great year of

Mitsu led 5 international students to Christ this year!

pressing into the campus and making Jesus known in class rooms, dorms, Greek houses, cultural groups and during the day through outreach. It is our mission to bring Jesus into the everyday life of the campus and we are training up students in sharing the gospel, sharing their testimony, how to read, study and teach the Bible and how to do prayer ministry with other students with deep spiritual needs.  The campus has strong student Christian leaders. We are proud.

Greek Ministry

This year was an up and down year for Greek Ministry. We had many awesome moments and a few hard ones. The great news is that we saw 5 students come to Christ! We had 4 houses start Bible Studies and we had at least one student from 18 different houses attend our Wednesday Greek IV meeting. We also hired one new staff last year, Casey, and this year we just hired two fraternity guys from SDSU who came to Christ in the ministry. They are raising their whole budget and will serve with us for four years. Pat is a Zeta Beta Tau, and Nick is a Sigma Phi Epsilon. We are so excited about this! The down part about the year was the

Greek Leaders

lack of resources. Casey, our new staff had a hard time getting funded, and her husband got really sick. She was so faithful in persevering, but she was not able to be on campus this spring. It was a really hard emotional year for her.  With Kristina going part-time now, Beau was left to run the whole ministry pretty much by himself, while also overseeing the other chapter. It was taxing. With the new conversions and the craziness of the system, we just needed more workers!

New Staff Hires

We are happy to report that we have hired three new staff for next year. All of them come from the SDSU ministry. One, Jenn Louie, is from the non-Greek chapter and she will work there. Pat and Nick, who were mentioned earlier, will work with Greek Ministry and be a huge shot in the arm to this work. To have

Nick & Pat

two fraternity guys who came to faith in college come on staff is a huge provision from the Lord. Fraternity guys may be the hardest students to reach on campus. We are also happy to report that over the last six years, we have now hired 6 staff out of the SDSU ministry. Before six years ago, only two staff in the 60 year history of ministry on campus had come out of the chapter. This shows us that God is really changing our culture and is up to something. Student leaders are excited to invest four years of their life into this ministry because God is bringing such change to the campus. Please pray with us for all these staff to get fully funded. Staff raise 100% of their budget to be on campus so we need more partners.

Student involvement

This year between the Greek and Non-Greek Chapters we saw 108 students involved. The way we count our numbers is by 50% attendance. We add up all the things we do all year-long and then see which students come to at least half those events. We want to know who our core is and that is what we call involved. We do not count people who come some of the time, or one time. They are

Fall Retreat @ Catalina

considered the crowd.  If we added up who comes some of the time also, we would have over 200 students involved. Add that to the amount of students we interface with during outreaches and the number grows to a thousand. We have a far reach, but what we are most concerned with is who is with us half the time at least because those are the students we can really teach, disciple and help grow.