Sarah Johnson, an ACM student at Georgia Tech, recently received an award from her local community for her exemplary volunteer services.
As a student leader of her ACM chapter, Sarah learned about service to others, particularly the poor and marginalized, through her chapter’s regular small group Bible studies and through frequent opportunities for service with both local and global missions. Her compassion for people motivates her passion for service. Love for people of every ethnicity, culture, and economic background is a virtue that InterVarsity nurtures in students and faculty. Our witnessing communities train student leaders for lifelong service.
While ACM desires to see non-Christian students and faculty become transformed Christians through a loving relationship with Jesus Christ, we equally desire to develop in our students and faculty advisors the holy character, biblical knowledge, and missions experience for their being Christ’s lifelong followers and witnesses.
God’s love calls us to get involved in the needs of people and the social issues of this world; God’s love calls us to help change neighborhoods, communities, cultures, and nations for the better. So we teach and encourage our students and faculty advisors to mature as Christians for their entire lives.
While we care for students during their college years, we prepare them for their post-college lives. One of the ways that we prepare students for their future lives is by nurturing in them Christian character. Through daily prayer and weekly corporate worship times, our campus witnessing communities facilitate ways in which God’s Spirit may work in our students’ lives, creating in them a Christ-like character that desires to love God and people.
We prepare students for their futures is by offering them sound biblical knowledge. Weekly fellowships are a hallmark of ACM witnessing communities. Studying God’s Word together in fellowships and meditating on biblical passages daily has proven to serve the spiritual needs of many students and has helped establish their now life-long habits of reading the Bible every morning.
Developing in students’ Christian character and sound biblical knowledge ensures that ACM students leave college as growing witnesses for Christ. Many of our ACM alumni have gone on in the world to contribute in extraordinary ways.
For over fifteen years ACM has been preparing students for mature Christian lives and service in this world. Today we are planting more campus chapters on more campuses. Tomorrow’s ACM students will continue our tradition of providing the church and the world with dedicated Christian leaders, committed to serving people in the name of Christ.
