Campus Life Ministries

College religious organizations provide campus ministry services to students of colleges and universities throughout the world. These are most commonly found in secular colleges and universities to cater to students of particular religious beliefs where the institution is not affiliated with, cannot endorse a particular religion, or hire its own religious ministers. These are sometimes affiliated as registered student organizations of their local university.^{[citation needed]}

Christian groups[edit]

The need for pastoral services in secular universities can be traced back to the writings of John Henry Newman advocating for societies of Catholic students to be established at secular universities in England. The rising popularity of public universities in many parts of the world over sectarianprivate universities also necessitated a need for Christian ministerial services for students. At the same time Christian churches in the vicinity of colleges and universities may provide worship and ministerial services to local students.^{[citation needed]}

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Roman Catholic[edit]

In the United States there are about 250 Catholic Newman Centers that minister to Catholic students at public universities. They trace their origin to the Newman movement and are ministered by laypeople, local parishes, or religious institutes.^[1] More recently, lay apostolates such as the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), established in 1997, are ministering to and re-evangelizing Catholic university students and young adults.^[2]

Latter-Day Saint[edit]

LDS Student Association of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Protestant[edit]

Protestant Christian and Ecumenical groups following their establishment also created ministries especially focused on evangelizing students. One most recognizable group is Cru, originally known as Campus Crusade for Christ, a inner-denominational Christian ministry established in 1951 on the campus of UCLA which has ministries in over a thousand universities.^[3] Various other evangelical groups have worldwide networks of campus ministries including the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, World Student Christian Federation, and The Navigators. Often Protestant denominations will also have a related para-church student fellowship ministry or college group directly or indirectly affiliated with their denomination, sometimes named by it. Additionally, independent churches will often have college ministries which may extend onto constituent college campuses in the form of a student organization.List of multi-campus protestant college ministries:

• Adventist Christian Fellowship of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
• American Baptist Campus Ministry of the American Baptist Convention
• Baptist Student Union of the Southern Baptist Convention
• Coalition for Christian Outreach (CCO)
• Chi Alpha (multi-denominational but nationally affiliated with: Chi Alpha Campus Ministries of the Assemblies of God)
• Cru, originally Campus Crusade for Christ
• Lutheran Student Fellowship of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
• Lutheran Student Movement of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
• Missionary baptist student fellowship of the American Baptist Association
• Reformed University Fellowship of the Presbyterian Church in America
• UKirk of the Presbyterian Church (USA)
• Wesley Foundation of the United Methodist Church
• Young Life College

Jewish groups[edit]

• World Union of Jewish Students and regional affiliates

References[edit]

1. ^'What is Newman?'. Western Dominican Province. Archived from the original on 2012-02-24. Retrieved 2012-01-08.
2. ^'The Main Thing'. Fellowship of Catholic University Students. Archived from the original on 2012-01-25. Retrieved 2012-01-08.
3. ^'Campus Ministry fact sheet'. Archived from the original on 2008-08-28. Retrieved 2012-01-08.