Campus Staff Member,

Boston College

2003 - present

A Jesuit college rising in the ranks of U.S. colleges and universities, with a strong ethic of service, very sports and image conscious, with one of the highest rates of eating disorders among women, with lots of students with nominal faith background.  I help staff the Asian Christian Fellowship.  Although numbers only tell a small piece of the story, here is a snapshot of the past few years of dynamic growth and change:

 

Year	Total # students	# Conversions
2003-04	35	0
2004-05	55	1
2005-06	81	0
2006-07	109	4
2007-08	106	7
2008-09	126	9
2009-10	110	7
2010-11	96	9

Campus Staff Member,

Harvard University

2011 - present

Harvard is a diverse, challenging, and rewarding environment from a ministry perspective.  Students are drawn from all over the world to this prestigious place of stress and glory.  Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship, a very multi-ethnic fellowship, aspires "to bring the whole gospel to the whole campus to change the whole world."  I stepped into HRCF in the summer of 2011, following previous staff Tina Teng-Henson.   Some of the things I look forward to doing:  public proxe stations to engage non-Christians, building a very diverse missional community of Christian students, tackling issues that appeal to people of all beliefs, and figuring out ways to engage the 30% of the undergrad student body that is Jewish. 

 

Year	Total # students	# Conversions
2009-10	51	1
2010-11	64	2

Campus Staff Member, Tufts University

2006 - 2009

Tufts University, founded on Unitarian principles, is a very diverse and fragmented campus, quite international in its orientation, and home to one of the most prominent atheist professors in the country: Daniel Dennett. Its student body is ~25% Jewish and very secular, ranking one of the most gay-friendly universities in the country. In my experience, this is the most challenging campus in Boston on which to minister. I led the staff team at Tufts Christian Fellowship (TCF). Though some setbacks happened in 2000 – 05 before I inherited Tufts as an assignment, including the much publicized homosexuality crisis where TCF was kicked off campus for a season by the University for requiring its leaders to hold to an orthodox position on Scripture and sexuality, we continue to build this very multi-ethnic fellowship – the most diverse of the Boston IVCF fellowships – and expand our reach on campus.  TCF is now staffed by Alexandra Nesbeda and Andy Ober.

 

Year	Total # students	# Conversions
2006-07	57	0
2007-08	42	1
2008-09	67	5

Co-Area Director,

Boston

2001 - 2006

InterVarsity was kind enough to bring me on as an Area Director to supervise staff.  I say "kind" because I had never been an IVCF student or staff before, so it was bit of a gamble, and I had a steep learning curve!  In 2001, IVCF was resourcing 12 student fellowships at 6 schools.  We set goals to plant fellowships at new schools, increase student participation, triple the existing number of conversions, and grow in theological depth and expressions of Christian social justice and relational holiness.  Since then, we have planted brand new fellowships at Northeastern University, Mass College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, UMass Boston, and Mass College of Art. 

 

Year	Total # students	# Conversions
2001-02	tba	tba
2002-03	tba	tba
2003-04	tba	tba
2004-05	tba	tba
2005-06	tba	tba

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