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The Campus Outreach LEAD program is a two-year, post-grad, personal growth-focused international missions experience opportunity to help college students around the world come to know Christ, establish a relationship with Him, and be equipped to lead others to do the same. Through life-on-life discipleship and evangelism, LEAD empowers and equips YOU to further the Kingdom and grow into the leader God designed you to be. During the LEAD program, we believe that you will Learn Yourself by growing in maturity as you discover your God-given gifts and find your best kingdom contribution; Engage the World by experiencing a new culture serving in a local church, and investing in lasting relationships with people who are different than you; Advance the Mission by helping your team build meaningful friendships on campus and learning how to influence people from different spiritual backgrounds; and Develop Leadership Skills by preparing for your future as you take on new responsibilities, receive feedback and experience mentorship and continue growing to become the leader God made you to be.
Mission/Vision Statement
The vision of Campus Outreach LEAD is Glorifying God by Building Laborers on the Campus for the Lost World. We build laborers with a commitment to Jesus and His Great Commission through evangelism and discipleship.
We passionately reach students with the gospel and train them to become mature followers of Christ. Our desire is to see students leave college equipped to labor in the harvest field for the glory of God.
We are dedicated to building Sustainable, Laborer-Producing, Indigenous, Multiplying (SLIM) Movements that will lead to contextualized, flourishing ministries that are fueling and serving the local church and community.
Doctrinal Statement
Glorifying God
The ultimate purpose of God and of all His creation is to bring attention to God or to glorify Him forever (Is. 43, Ps. 33, Ps. 115, Rom. 1 & 8, Eph. 1, Rev. 5). Because there is nothing and no one more valuable or important than God Himself, Campus Outreach exists that He may continually receive what He deserves and is due to Him praise, honor, and glory from us as we find our joy in Him. We, like many throughout history, desire to spread a passion for the glory of God throughout the world. It is our desire that His identity, reputation, and fame be proclaimed to all people, in all places, by all appropriate means, as urgently as possible.
Building Laborers
Jesus Christ once said, as he observed a large crowd of people, The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few (Mt. 9:37). That profound statement has rung true for more than 2,000 years and can certainly be applied to our world in the 21st century. There is no shortage of needs, problems, and opportunities awaiting the approach of an equipped leader (Eph. 4:11-16, Mt. 4:19) to make a difference. It is the desire of Campus Outreach to work hand in hand with colleges, universities, churches, families, and individuals to produce these Kingdom leaders and laborers for which there is such a desperate need.
On the Campus
Campus Outreach believes that the university campus is one of the most strategic fields of ministry available in the world. Beyond the movement of the sovereign God through His Holy Spirit, there are at least 4 factors we see at play that make college students so strategic.
Student Population Density on the campus is higher than many other places in the world, making it easier to meet and build relationships with more people.
Student Availability on the campus is greater than virtually any other place in the world or at any other stage in life.
Student Openness to ideas and hunger for knowledge is generally unequaled elsewhere in the world.
Student Potential for future impact in the world is incredibly high, when compared to any other people demographic in the rest of the worlds population.
It is the combination or cumulative effect of these dynamics coming together in tangible ways that lead us to the conclusion that the university campus is the most strategic place for Campus Outreach to impact the world for Christ.
For the Lost World
The goal of Campus Outreach is that we would influence the world for Christthat we might be part of fulfilling the Great Commission (Mt. 28:18-20). Campus Outreach desires to be a part of the expansive enterprise of the Gospel of the Kingdom and the Glory of God that is being lived and preached and spread around the world to every people, tribe, tongue, and nation ( Mt. 24, Mk. 13, Rev. 5). More specifically, we desire that trained graduates would provide leadership for the Kingdom of God in every sphere of influence imaginable in every country around the world. It is the aim of Campus Outreach that these leaders would be mobilized from the campus to have a Gospel-centered impact on those around them as they live the rest of their lives in the church and as a part of business, medicine, the community, the family, politics, education, missions, and all areas of life.
