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.
Tyler and Shalynn Crawford serve in the university city of Tübingen, Germany where they were originally part of our campus ministry there called Unterwegs. During those years working with college students, the Crawfords formed a ministry partnership with the Kreuzkirche, a local church in Tübingen. The church supports the work of Unterwegs and, in 2020, invited the Crawfords to expand their work beyond university students and into new age groups. Here Tyler shares how a space at the church has impacted people in unexpected ways.
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.
June Johnson has been in Germany for the last year, caring for Ukrainian refugees displaced due to the war, but generous partners are allowing her to continue to support the churches still serving the hurting in Ukraine. June says that the local church in Ukraine is showing those in grief and anger, lonely and without, in fear and fatigue, God’s love in tangible ways.
Written on March 11, 2022, by June Johnson, CMF missionary to Ukraine
Photo Above: A grandpa saying goodbye to his granddaughter. I have known little Arisha since she was born. She is the granddaughter to some of my best friends - Gresha and Era. Arisha and her mother were a part of the group that Joni & Friends and AGAPE evacuated.
Tuesday, 1:10 p.m. - United States
I saw a text come in from my friend in Ukraine, Era. “I really need to talk with you.”
Besides being a close friend, she is also the person I’ve most poured my skills into. Era does wound and ostomy care as well as I do. Era & her husband are still in Lutsk working at AGAPE as they help refugees. The AGAPE center (a Christian rehab center for neck & spinal injuries) has become a place where the masses who are fleeing Ukraine can stop, sleep, eat, and then be helped onward towards the Polish border.
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 a student in the Georgia Tech Christian Campus Fellowship, Andrew knew many people who have served with Globalscope campus ministries and was impressed with the impact it had on their lives. One in particular had served in Freiburg, Germany, and Andrew felt called to join the team there as a campus minister.
Nora Lahmann-Vogt was a student at the Unterwegs campus ministry in Tübingen, Germany, when she came to faith in Christ and was baptized. Now, she serves as a campus minister herself at the Unterwegs in Freiburg, Germany.
The Globalscope campus ministry team in Erlangen, Germany, took a look at the numbers for the last semester and was encouraged by seeing God at work, even during the persistent lockdowns in their country.
Concern for the mental issues that they sometimes see in students in their ministries led the three Unterwegs campus ministry teams in Germany to take part in their first joint digital mental health training recently.