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Bingo is fun! It doesn’t matter where you start. Each square has something helpful for you during NSO. Pick a few of the squares that are most interesting to you. Eventually, you will try to get a “black out” of your entire card by using each square as you prepare for New Student Outreach.
When your ministry has fun, new people (Christians, skeptics, and seekers) feel connected and welcome. Here are 10 Tips and Tricks from across the country to level up your fun.
Tabling is a great way to connect with new students in a casual yet personal way. We will help you learn how to make your tabling experience great!
A sample calendar to show how tabling, events, and follow up flow together during NSO, with examples for residential, commuter and community colleges, and a blank calendar to plan your own.
Confession can be a hard practice to engage in. This resource will help simplify how to start the practice of confession.
Engage skeptics, seekers and Christians with the epic Good News of Jesus. Use our Premiere to launch your four-week Bible study series in the Gospel of John.
This newly released short-film (3 min) from Native American Christians tells the story of Creator God from their perspective. Experience the powerful metaphors of sand and water which describe how Creator relates to us and our world.
This 1-hour watch party will help your campus to hear and learn a native perspective of who Jesus is.
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Discern your next step in New Student Outreach and see how God will shape you and your team as you welcome others into your community.
A worksheet to help you assess the current reality and needs of the ministry and to make plans around developing new leaders and establishing new rhythms of community.
Running New Student Outreach for a chapter that is 30 or more in size and has an established leadership team is exciting and a little daunting! We’ve compiled some best practices from staff from different parts of the country. These staff have different strategies (single chapter and multi-chapter) and each have worked with large chapters for a number of years—their wisdom at your finger tips!
What does it mean to be South Asian and Christian? Join hosts Caroline Lancaster and Kevin Wilson for real conversations on faith and the South Asian cultural experience.
Hosted by Caroline Lancaster and Andy Kim, “Flourishing Communities” unpacks the beauty and challenge of pursuing real community.
Prayer walks are a great way to encounter God on campus and explore what God's doing there. Prayer walks help us step out of what's familiar and embrace a posture of curiosity, humility, and expectancy. This resource will help you lead a prayer walk.
What does Jesus have to do with justice? This 7-week series traces the theme of justice from the Old Testament to the New Testament, offering a biblical basis for justice as an attribute of God’s character and central to God’s mission in the world. This foundational series will propel participants towards a life-long pursuit of justice that is grounded in Jesus.
As your ministry prepares to return to campus (whether online or hybrid), help your community process the grief from the past season and long for God's hope and renewal with these two Bible studies (Psalm 42, Isaiah 55), complete with leaders guide and printable manuscript.
A Launch Gathering is a catalytic event that creates space for students to tell their faith stories and for new students to learn what InterVarsity is all about. This two-week guide will lead your group (a small group, a leaders team, or a core team) through the process of preparing, inviting for, and hosting your Launch Gathering.
How can a small group increase its impact? By becoming a sending community! Sending people out to create more spaces for their friends to encounter God helps us truly bring the Love of God to every corner of campus. Use Multiplying Small Groups to help students gain vision, receive training, and make invitation plans to launch new small groups.