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Developing Partners for staff from every ethnicity and culture

Pray for the Lord of the Harvest to send workers

May 10, 2022 / Howie Meloch / 0 Comments

This is a season of many invitations.

There are some that are quite regular for us to make: to serve as small group leaders, Campus Staff, or Volunteers. There are some that are unique opportunities – to lead our ministry to Graduate students and Faculty There are also invitations from colleges and universities to potential students and faculty to choose their campus.

In each case whether inviting or receiving these potential workers, we look to God to send out workers for the harvest field. As when Jesus first spoke these words, the Harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Join us in praying for students, faculty, and others to hear God’s invitation and say yes to the field he has for them.

Goal Reached

May 27, 2020 / Howie Meloch / 0 Comments

Over 4,000 campuses have been prayer walked in the last 18 months. It was a blessing to take part in the live event to pray for last few together.

EveryCampus is a collaborative movement of dozens of like-minded organizations working together to do something we could never do alone, to mobilize prayer and mission on every single campus in the United States.

Would you pray that God would use the prayer for each campus to water seeds scattered on each campus and that we would see God made known on them?

Celebrate and Send

May 27, 2020 / Howie Meloch / 0 Comments

Graduations provide the opportunity to reflect on and celebrate the past while considering the future. Join InterVarsity students and friends from around the country at the Grad event on May 30th to engage together on what God might be saying in the midst of a tumultuous season.

Radical Unity

January 14, 2020 / Howie Meloch / 0 Comments

Leaders from about 30 Christian ministries joined InterVarsity’s staff conference to pray and seek God. InterVarsity and these organizations have built a collaborative initiative called EveryCampus to seek God together for revival and to establish gospel communities on every USA campus. In the past year, we have done prayer walks on almost 2/3 of these campuses. It was amazing to see all of these organizations come together in unity around a vision for God’s Kingdom and to hear how God had been giving their leaders similar messages in prayer.

Prayer on Everycampus

September 20, 2019 / Howie Meloch / 0 Comments

From coast to coast, students around the country are back at school, and on hundreds of campuses, and as you read this our staff are inviting students from a multitude of backgrounds to consider the relevance of Jesus to their lives today!

These first few weeks on campus are rich with opportunity to build new relationships form new communities, and establish new rhythms (many of which will last throughout that students’ time on campus). As such, for our staff team, these are weeks full of intentional outreach to meet, welcome, and invite students into our fellowships.

Would you consider partnering with our work in this season by prayer walking a campus near you? Just like the students in the video below (who actually road-tripped to prayer walk) and our staff across the country, would you consider taking a look at this State by State list of campuses and consider “adopting” a campus near you to prayer walk via www.everycampus.com?

12 campuses, 3290 miles

September 12, 2019 / Howie Meloch / 0 Comments

Our 2030 calling is compelling staff across the country to continue to lift up their eyes to the ‘field’ God has placed before them.

This summer Kristin Wright, Area Director in Montana (on the left in picture above), joined with her staff to prayer walk on yet to be reached campuses around the state.

On her 3290 mile trip she experienced God’s presence through scripture, images, divine appointments, engaging in prayer around challenges students are facing, the joy of students as they engaged in prayer for their campus, and insights into particular ways to partner with Him in ministry on campus.

Praise God for leaders like Kristin in our movement that are seeking to meet God on every corner of every campus and catalyze movements that call students and faculty to follow Jesus…and are willing to drive 3,290 miles to do it! Please pray for the ‘seeds’ that were planted on this trip would end up bearing fruit across Montana.

Something to share

August 7, 2019 / Howie Meloch / 0 Comments

“Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality.At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. The goal is equality, as it is written: “The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.” 2 Corinthians 8:13-15 (NIV)

As a regional community, the Central Region (IA, KS, MO, and NE) embodied this passage and set a team goal that their whole staff team would finish the fiscal year (June 30th) even or with something to share.

I was so encouraged and praise God with them that they reached this goal in the 2018-2019 fiscal year. Throughout our movement staff directors continue to press forward to see all of our staff funded. Would you join us in prayer that the passage in 2 Corinthians would be true of our movement so that we see our staff thriving as they catalyze movements that call people to follow Jesus?

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A new way

February 25, 2019 / Howie Meloch / 0 Comments

As our movement considers partnering to see witnessing communities on 2500 campuses, we realize that we are looking at significant changes.

A colleague mentioned that we are looking for a change more like what Uber did for ride sharing then the taxis taking a next step in installing a credit card machine.

As a community we are seeking God’s direction to engage new levels of national partnerships, create easy on-ramps of volunteerism, make training accessible to all, and more deeply empower students and faculty in mission.

It is an exciting and pray-producing time, particularly as I facilitate elements of our work with volunteers. Thanks for your continued prayer!

Dreams becoming reality

May 3, 2018 / Howie Meloch / 0 Comments

Two and a half years ago one of our staff, Dave, started taking prayer walks around the Kansas City Arts Institute (KCAI). As he interceded for that campus, he knew that one day, the Lord would open the door for him to reach the campus with the love of Christ.

At the beginning of this year a ministry partner with ties to KCAI connected Dave to a student enrolled there. This student had been attempting to start ministry on that campus for a couple of years. Through this student, Dave connected with several other Christian students at KCAI, and all of a sudden, Dave’s dream became reality!

Currently, Dave is leading a weekly Bible study off-campus as we apply for organization status so that we can host InterVarsity on campus next year. We long for the light of Jesus to come to a campus that some perceive to be a dark place.

Will you pray with us that InterVarsity would be approved as a student organization and for a strong start for this chapter?

…Answered

April 5, 2018 / Howie Meloch / 0 Comments

Have you experienced a season of answers to prayers long prayed? In the Central Region we are in a season like this.

Over a meal our Central Region leadership team shared why they are praising God. One after another the team members shared answers to prayers they have been praying for many years: an alumni saying yes to serve at a campus in Iowa we have been praying for staff to be raised up for ten years, Latino ministry starting in Missouri and at a new school in Omaha that we have been interceding for years to start, and new partners raised for a staff who has been chronically underfunded.

What is particularly remarkable for us is that we have intentionally taken a one year break (fallow year) in setting regional goals to see what God develops. In response we are seeing the fruit of long prayers being answered. Praise God with us for hearing and responding!