This fall, Renee Bourdeaux draws on her expertise in psychological research and her experience as a college professor to offer tips on building strong relationships with academic colleagues. In addition to applying her academic knowledge, each week Renee will also offer a prayer and a practical exercise to help build community in academic settings. Read Post 1 here. … [Read more...] about Collegial Connections, Week Two: Meeting Connections
Team Meetings
Embracing InterVarsity’s Graduate and Faculty Ministries
Many times in today's self-focused culture, gatherings of people (even in shared ministry) are little more than a room full of franchises trying to sustain their own local agendas in the midst of significant internal and external hardship. But by God's grace at our annual gathering, InterVarsity's Graduate and Faculty Ministries (GFM) once again returned to the roots of our shared mission, i.e., the call of God discerned through worship, prayer, digging into the Word of God, mutual encouragement/conversation (in the … [Read more...] about Embracing InterVarsity’s Graduate and Faculty Ministries
Praying for InterVarsity’s Graduate and Faculty Ministries
This year InterVarsity's Graduate & Faculty Ministries (GFM) will not only celebrate 25 years of serving God on campus, but also step into another year of serving the Lord with head, heart, and hands. I asked Carrie Bare, GFM South Central Region Assoc Regional Dir., who is serving as the Meeting Prayer Coord. for our national staff gatherings (March 18 - 20), to share a few prayer requests with the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN). Below is what I received from Carrie. The focus of this year's gathering in … [Read more...] about Praying for InterVarsity’s Graduate and Faculty Ministries