Easter weekend is a crazy time of family events, egg hunts, candy, traveling, and church functions. However, for Cornell University, Easter weekend is focused on community, worship, service and a 48-hour prayer tent, serving over 2,000 people. These events were put...

On February 16th through 19th, over one hundred college students from many different ministries and campuses gathered together for Ignite Ivy at the historic Tremont Temple in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2011, Jerry and Judy Ball started Ignite Ivy after realizing...

“Veritas Christo Ecclesiae (Truth for Christ and the Church)” ~Harvard University, 1636 “Lux et Veritas (Light and Truth)” ~Yale University, 1701 “Dei Sub Numine Viget (Under the Protection of God She Flourishes)” ~Princeton University, 1746 God has an inheritance for...

BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA – On Sept. 26 to Sept. 30, around 150 students prayed and worshipped in a white tent on Appalachian State University’s Sanford Mall. “Through prayer, and I don’t say this lightly, I believe the Lord was telling...

Friday nights are wild in a college town.  They are particularly wild in Lawrence, Kansas.  It’s as if the students on the hill (as the locals refer to The University of Kansas campus) leave their Friday afternoon classes with enough...

BELTON, TEXAS – Once a month, 500 to 700 students from every ministry at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor come together for a night of worship, bringing unity to the Christian university and providing students a way to connect with...

There are many sights, sounds, and events that indicate the start of the academic year. For some, it might be back-to-school sales, or the long-awaited arrival of pumpkin-spiced lattes. For us at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, every...

I thought I had grown out of campus ministry, thought I looked too “adult” now to casually walk into a dorm building or sit down among a group of freshmen and instantly make six new friends. I began to buy...

Syracuse, New York – On Friday night at 7pm, Syracuse University will have the largest Christian gathering they have seen in years spanning multiple ministries and churches with 5,000 people estimated to attend. Worship the King, which happens once a...

Fading Spiritual Momentum Spiritually speaking, Fall semesters at Cornell University start out with a bang. The weather is warm, exams and papers are weeks away, and campus fellowships and ministry leaders work overtime during the freshmen “gathering process.”   But...