Our Globalscope international campus ministries started as a dream to reach college students in major university towns around the world, places where few opportunities existed for young people to explore faith in a loving and accepting community. Now, over 20 years later, Globalscope campus ministers are welcoming students into 14 different campus houses, in 10 countries.
Sophie Anthony will soon graduate with a degree in Human Health from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and in her four years of college, she has had multiple experiences that have shaped her. She interned at a church serving vulnerable populations, volunteered as a coordinator at a food pantry, spent a summer as a REACH intern at CMF’s Globalscope campus ministry in Uruguay, and even participated in a month-long study abroad program in South Africa.
How does a dentist from Costa Rica end up pursuing campus ministry in Germany? For Anne Brown Campbell, it was a matter of asking God what his plans and dreams for her were and getting more connected to his global mission.
Tony Cole is following his call to find new ways to communicate old truths to university students in Tübingen, Germany, as part of Unterwegs, the Globalscope campus ministry team. He puts his background in philosophy and theology to work with his love for bread making and good conversation in order to pass on the welcome of God we know in Jesus. When he isn't working with students, you'll find Tony in the mountains, cooking with friends, or reading in a pub. Here he talks about the importance of partnering with local churches.
For the third straight year, several Globalscope campus ministries from Latin America have teamed up to travel to a different location to serve together. It’s called Proyecto La Paz and each year has been a new and amazing experience. In January students and staff from our ministries in Chile, Uruguay, and Mexico travelled to Brazil where they served with an existing CMF ministry and dreamed about starting a new one.
Though she is still discerning where she will end up, Sarah Lemke is preparing to serve at a Globalscope campus ministry location.
Through several years of research, planning, vision trips and relationship-building, Seth McManus is planning to help start a Globalscope campus ministry in Gqeberha, South Africa, to empower and serve students at Nelson Mandela University.
Meredith McKinney recently celebrated her 10-year anniversary of moving to Scotland to work with Roots, a CMF Globalscope campus ministry in Edinburgh. She also recently returned from a sabbatical
A love of Germany’s culture and people and a life-long connection to CMF’s Globalscope campus ministries brought Donovan and Erin Harper together in both life and ministry in Germany.
The couple are on furlough in the U.S. and recently visited the CMF office to share their story and ministry news.
As campus ministers Jesse and Sophie Bentley looked around at the 50 students attending the Thanksgiving dinner at the En Vivo campus house in Valencia, Spain, recently, they were amazed at the many ways God is rebuilding His ministry there post-Covid.