“…we have put on events that are fun and accessible to people wherever they are in their faith journey”

Our vision for the year was inspired by a talk given at #conferencewin. My students were struck by the words and imagery that our campuses are filled with people that are alive but spiritually dead. As they thought of their friends and classmates, they felt compelled to be more missional.

During our time visioning in June, we took account of the people who were not in the room, and accounted for ways we have not welcomed people well and brainstormed ways to be more invitational to these groups of people. As we reflected on this brainstorming at #conferencewin, we realized we wanted to be known as a fellowship that has joy and is invitational. One that is bold in their faith, and spends time studying and applying God’s Word, but also gathers people together and has great fellowship. We don’t aim to downplay the costliness of following Jesus, and put forth a misaligned understanding of the gospel; but we noticed our previous trend was to over-emphasize the costliness and suffering for the gospel and downplay the joy of life as God’s people in His Kingdom.

As part of this vision, we have put on events that are fun and accessible to people wherever they are in their faith journey. Our aim is that these events will help people gradually gain awareness of our fellowship and eventually help bridge them to some of our other weekly ministries.

We advertise for these events by making buttons with a logo we created at #conferencewin. We have used this logo on all our posters and flyers for events. We are now seeing people recognize our logo and that our fellowship has more campus-wide recognition than in previous years!

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