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Passion Conferences (also referred to as Passion and the 268 Generation, originally named Choice Ministries) is a Christian organization founded by Louie Giglio and Chris Tomlin in 1997. [1] The organization is known for its annual gatherings of young adults between the ages of 18 and 25, more specifically college students.
SEEK is an annual Catholic young adult conference organized by Fellowship of Catholic University Students. The conference is among the largest regular gatherings of Catholics in the world. [2] The most recent conference, held January 1–5, 2025, was held concurrently in Salt Lake City, Utah, Washington, D.C., and Cologne, Germany. [1]
Beginning in 1999, FOCUS began to host a series of alternating conferences. The larger of the two, SEEK, is largely educational and social in nature. The smaller Student Leadership Summit (SLS) was more directly aimed at training undergraduates and other young and ministerial professionals in the organization's methods.
The event is designed to inform Christian students about global issues and issues around the world and missional living. The conference also encourages students to explore the biblical mandate for cross-cultural missions and encourages them to participate in missions. [1] Each Urbana lasts for 4-5 days at the end of December and on New Year's Eve.
David M. Howard, Student Power in World Missions, InterVarsity Press, 1979. ISBN 0-87784-493-3 (Brief history of North American students in mission beginning with the Haystack Movement through the SVM to the SFMF.) C. Stacey Woods, The Growth of a Work of God, InterVarsity Press, 1978. ISBN 0-87784-741-X (Early history of InterVarsity/USA)
In addition to the NAD Adventist Christian Fellowship Network, the CAMPUS network, a ministry of the Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, and the Morning Star Christian Fellowship network, a para-church organization, also help to organize Adventist student groups on university and other tertiary campuses.
Nurses Christian Fellowship (NCF) is unique among the ministries of InterVarsity; it is a professional organization as well as a student ministry. In addition to campus ministry, NCF offers continuing education courses and the professional publication, Journal of Christian Nursing, to practicing nurses.
The organization was founded as the Baptist Student Union in 1919 by the Baptist General Convention of Texas. [1] Joseph P. Boone, a Baylor University graduate, was the first secretary. In 1920, the first state-wide convocation members was held at Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas . 300 students from twenty schools came for the ...