reDEFINE Reality
Our world is messed up. If Jesus is the answer, how can Christians make more of a difference? Jesus’ presence started a revolution in our broken world. Now is the time to connect faith with our struggles about race, gender, sexuality, and caring for the environment. You’ll leave this week challenged to reconsider how your personal life and community can transform your campus…and then the world.
Truth that Works, Truth that Heals
Many people today have growing skepticism about the everyday relevance of Christian faith and the answers it offers to life’s questions. Guided in part by your friends’ questions and your own, we’ll wrestle with some of today’s most challenging issues. We will look for authentically Christian answers that offer genuine hope and gracious truth to a hurting world — answers that give us the humble courage to become more faithful, holistic followers of Jesus. Note: track limited to 30 participants
Large Group Leaders’ Training (LGLT)
What is our “curb appeal?” How many of us have wished our Large Group gatherings were better quality? This training is for leaders and members of Worship Teams, Large Group Planning Teams, and Creative Teams. The training will offer practical tools, time encountering Jesus together, and a back-to-campus plan for radically enhancing our public connection to campus in the form of creative, quality large group gatherings.
Small Group Leaders’ Training
This track is designed for those who have been asked by their IV staff or leadership team to lead a small group Bible study on campus. Learn how to prepare a Bible-centered study, finding the main truth of the Scripture passage and applying it to everyday life. Practice leading a small group and learn by observing other leaders. Gain skills and vision for your small group to become a witnessing community on campus.
Leadership Team
This is a week for your chapter leadership team to pray, build relationships, seek God’s purposes for your campus and plan for the coming year. You’ll meet with God, work as a team on the planning process, and catch a vision for how God can use your chapter on campus. Biblical teaching, vision casting, conversations with chapter leaders from other schools, and training in biblical leadership combine to make a life-changing week. Requirement: At least 4 of your leadership team members (for the coming year) plus your InterVarsity Campus Staff member or other resource person must participate together.
Mark 1
Come live with Jesus in chapters 1-8 of Mark’s Gospel. Using a manuscript study format, we will meet Jesus together in a new way. Mark 1 is for you if:
- You want a fresh, up close and personal encounter with Jesus
- You want to learn more about the nature and values of God’s kingdom
- You want to learn new Bible Study skills to enrich your personal and group Bible study and worship.
Mark 2
Mark 2 is the continuation of Mark 1. Dive into the rest of the story in chapters 9-16. Meet Jesus in the climax of his life, death and resurrection. See the unfolding struggle to understand who He is and how to respond to Him.
Live to Tell
If you knew something really awesome, could you keep it to yourself? The wonderful story of God is meant to be told. Alive and in the flesh, you are the best story teller to your campus. Come learn how to listen to other’s stories and communicate the gospel story effectively so you can discover how God intended us to really live.
Converge
Converge (kən’vərj): verb – to come together from different directions so as eventually to meet.Are you… Looking for God? New to the faith? Feeling dry? This track is for you who are feeling confused in your search for God, disillusioned, or longing for more. Converge is a place where you can be real with God and others, and learn in creative and engaging ways about the God who’s looking for us on this journey of faith. Come. Explore together. Respond. Be refreshed.
Crew
Can you really serve God by cleaning bathrooms, hauling firewood, and slicing mountains of vegetables? Yes! Join the Cedar Campus crew for a week-long lesson in practical servanthood. You will have the opportunity to serve God, your chapter, other students and Cedar Campus. Because of your work schedule you will not always be free when students in other tracks have free time. However, all crew track participants will be able to attend evening worship and exposition and chapter prayer.
