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InterVarsity’s Multi-Ethnic History
11 am on Sunday still remains the most segregated hour in America, and for most Christians the best way to deal with race is to be colorblind and simply disregard it as not important. With that said I’m really proud to be apart of an organization that has kept ethnic reconciliation and multi-ethnicity as a core value of our movement. Since its conception in the US, InterVarsity has remained a catalyst of racial reconciliation not only in the church, but in the culture as well. I believe what we have done and what we are going to do is going to continue to bless, challenge, and transform the church’s view on culture and ethnicity for years to come. It is so exciting to be part of what God is doing!
Here are a few examples of our multi-ethnic legacy from our history that I am particularly proud of (from Multi Ethnic Ministries Website):
- 1944-1948- Jane Hollingsworth (Haille) in NYC confronted an IV Board member when she refused to permit Black students in her home for the city’s monthly meetings. Jane’s Biblical honesty breaks the Board member’s racism and her home is opened to all students.
SD InterVarsity Video
Check out our new San Diego InterVarsity promo video. I’m pretty sure this is the best piece of publicity we’ve ever created. It paints a really compelling picture of why we need InterVarsity on our campuses in SD!
My Modeling Career Begins…
So apparently I’m a model now. My picture has just been featured on the InterVarsity National website on the front page (You can also click the image on the left to get a closer look after its taken down from the website). The picture was used in this article about InterVarsity’s role of spiritual formation to becoming a witness in student’s lives. (It was also used earlier this year in a brochure for donors). The funny thing is that this picture had nothing to do with this. The article opens with a story about Jamie from Johns Hopkins University, but there is no Jamie in the picture and I certainly wasn’t in Baltimore in the last few months. In fact, in case you’re wondering, this picture was taken at my New Staff Orientation this past summer. We were recruited to take pictures that would be used in future InterVarsity publications. And so my modeling career began… Read the rest of this entry
