Moving forward by faith alone: Campus ministry in the time of COVID-19
Months of lockdown in Salamanca, Spain, have now transitioned into outdoor meetings with masks, reports Globalscope En Vivo campus ministers Will and Laura Sallee.
Months of lockdown in Salamanca, Spain, have now transitioned into outdoor meetings with masks, reports Globalscope En Vivo campus ministers Will and Laura Sallee.
Cody Spencer went to Salamanca, Spain, in 2012 to serve with the Globalscope En Vivo campus ministry. He planned to spend three years learning, growing, teaching, leading, having fun and seeing God change lives, but ended up serving for eight years.
The Globalscope En Vivo Salamanca campus ministry is a transformational ministry to university students in a beautiful, historic city in Spain.
Don’t know much about the Netherlands? You’ve come to the right place!
The newest Globalscope campus ministry will launch in Maastricht, Netherlands, next year. And our newest team is here to share a few fun facts about the city they will call home in 2021. FYI, it’s a no to wooden clogs and lederhosen but a yes to bicycles!
“Much like you in the U.S.,” says Globalscope campus minister Tim Crabtree “our lives and work have seen drastic changes recently.”
In Tübingen, Germany, home of an Unterwegs campus ministry, strict measures are in place for people to stay at home and most businesses are closed. And non-profits like churches and Unterwegs cannot open again for meetings until mid-June, which will be about halfway through the summer semester.
Tori Anderson became a believer while attending a Christian campus group in college, so she has a real passion for sharing Jesus with university students.
When Globalscope campus minister Tony Cole started to write “April” in the subject line of a recent email to his U.S. ministry partners he found himself laughing, because, as he puts it, “it seems like every day is like a month now! I’m just going to call it “Corona-Time.”
Taylor Roush first connected with CMF Globalscope on a short-term trip to the El Pozo campus ministry in Puebla, Mexico, and knew that the awesome community she found there was “what I wanted my life to look like!”
Life and ministry have changed significantly for our team members as a result of COVID-19, but CMF’s Globalscope Roots team in Edinburgh, Scotland, took quick steps last week to go digital to support and connect with their students.
“College ministry changed everything for me,” says Joseph Hoffman. Now he and his wife Lizzie are part of a team that will help create a place where students from all over the world can connect with God, develop community and find meaning in their lives.