Mobilization Update

I realized something after spending a week with my family in Orlando, FL at Campus Outreach’s Summer Project. Every week of Summer Project, students have evangelism training and spend time practicing sharing their faith in different parts of the city. At the end of the night, all of the students and leaders gather to talk about their experience, share stories and pray for those who heard the gospel. It hit me that if a student attends two summer projects during their time in college, they will have more evangelism training than most seminary graduates. These are the students that we have the privilege of mobilizing into the lost world after graduation. 

At the same time, students involved in Campus Outreach are, throughout the year, learning how to study the Bible, read the Bible with non-Christians, plant themselves in communities of unbelievers to share their faith, and love the local church. 

This is why our mobilization work is so strategic and exciting. Our students graduate with vision and tools to make disciples wherever the Lord leads them. For most, this means looking for opportunities to share their faith and multiply their lives in their workplaces, neighborhoods and families. 

And yet, our prayer is that God would raise up more and more of our graduates to take the gospel to the nations. God is moving on college campuses all over the world, but there is a massive need for more cross-cultural laborers (Luke 10:2). We pray that Campus Outreach Lexington would be a strategic provider of recent graduate missionaries who use the tools, gifts and talents God developed during their time with CO to make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:18-20

128 students graduating

204 students committed/connected to the local church

29 students who have expressed interest in overseas ministry

“My interest in missions is rooted in how the Lord has used the Church and Campus Outreach to build up my heart for Evangelism. I view my life as a mission field, and that’s due to the scriptures that I’ve been pointed towards. Also, the experience of doing evangelism and life on life discipleship on the campus has played a huge part in revealing to me that my “business” in life is making disciples. I mean Jesus told His disciples to do that in the Great Commission, and I’m extremely thankful to be a part of a campus ministry that wants to embrace that mission/command.”

- Carter, Junior at WKU