How do you fit in? You or someone you know at a public campus can call your conference or email your publica campus ministry rep to get connected with a church near the campus.
You may be familiar with the sobering statistic from the Barna Institute showing that “70 percent of high school youth who enter college as professing Christians will leave with little to no faith.” And if you’re thinking that’s doesn’t apply to our youth, then consider findings of the Institute of Church History longitudinal study over 10 years which found “nearly 50 percent of Adventist youth had left the church or were inactive members by their mid-20s.”
There are proactive steps underway in the Lake Union to stem the tide. Did you know the Lake Union is the first Union in the North American Division to formally organize public campus ministry some seven years ago?
If you go even farther back, it was reported in the University of Michigan's daily newspaper, Michigan Daily (October 12, 1891), that an Adventist sanitarium/boarding house near the Ann Arbor campus was managed by a medical student.
Are you aware the Lake Union is the only Union with a coordinator focusing on students at non-Adventist higher education institutions? Do you know that each of our conferences has a representative overseeing this critical area of ministry?
So how do you fit in? You or someone you know at a public campus can call your conference or email your publica campus ministry rep to get connected with a church near the campus.
Lake Union Herald staff
