{"id":4247,"date":"2019-05-30T12:32:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T16:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/?p=4247"},"modified":"2019-12-18T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T18:17:00","slug":"campus-ministry-affiliates-expand-faith-formation-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/2019\/05\/30\/campus-ministry-affiliates-expand-faith-formation-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus ministry affiliates expand faith formation opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4308\" style=\"width: 2010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4308\" class=\"wp-image-4308 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/05\/20190405-Micah-Hurst-Campus-Ministry-Lunch-Conversation-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/05\/20190405-Micah-Hurst-Campus-Ministry-Lunch-Conversation-6.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/05\/20190405-Micah-Hurst-Campus-Ministry-Lunch-Conversation-6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/05\/20190405-Micah-Hurst-Campus-Ministry-Lunch-Conversation-6-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/05\/20190405-Micah-Hurst-Campus-Ministry-Lunch-Conversation-6-658x439.jpg 658w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Micah Hurst &#8217;02, MA &#8217;18 chats with students in weekly visits to campus. He is pastor of faith formation for youth and young adults at Weavers Mennonite Church.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>SOMETIMES CONVERSATIONS<\/strong> around a dining hall table can be about \u201cnothing deep,\u201d says EMU campus ministry affiliate <strong>Micah Hurst &#8217;02, MA &#8217;18<\/strong> (church leadership) \u2013 but then a student \u201cwill say something like, \u2018Well, I want to change the subject and ask you&#8230;&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hurst, pastor of faith formation for youth and young adults at Weavers Mennonite Church, is one of six area pastors and ministry leaders serving students on campus. The others are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Moriah Hurst<\/strong>, Park View Mennonite Church;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Adam King, MDiv &#8217;18<\/strong>, Rise Faith Community;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gabriel Kreider <\/strong>and<strong> Oksana Kittrell &#8217;17<\/strong>, Divine Unity Community Church; and<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rachel Yoder, class of 2015<\/strong>, Eastside Church.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cHaving these pastors contributing to campus-wide ministries is a tremendous gift,\u201d said campus pastor <strong>Brian Martin Burkholder<\/strong>. \u201cThey help campus ministries broaden the ministry and faith formation opportunities to better meet the growing diversity of our student body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ministry affiliates take part in the \u201cMinistry Hub,\u201d monthly dinner hour table conversations with student leadership from various on-campus ministries: Alpha Omega Dancers for Christ, Celebration, Destiny\u2019s Daughters, Every Nation Campus, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Gospel Choir, Hymn Sing, Y-Serve, pastoral and ministry assistants, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Fostering the spiritual growth of student leaders \u2013 and strengthening their ability to minister to their peers \u2013 can impact the broader campus, said Hurst, a former residence hall director at EMU for five years who also interned with campus ministries as a seminary student. \u201cThey have the most opportunity to care for others, so the more I can help them the better off the whole campus is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Affiliates also host a Monday-afternoon prayer time around the fountain in front of Thomas Plaza, make brunch with students each month, meet one-to-one with student ministry leaders, and lead both small groups and larger group worship. Other activities also connect students with wider campus-oriented ministry: Kreider, the DUCC representative, accompanied approximately 30 students to an Every Nation Campus conference where five students were baptized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur main goal on campus is to disciple students and to equip and empower them to be who God has called them to be,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s joy- and hope-filled work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been beautiful to see students growing in their faith,\u201d said Yoder, who leads two small groups for women. \u201cSometimes it\u2019s been growth through doubts, other times through coming together as a community that challenges and encourages each other. My hope is that students become whole life disciples of Christ, are able to identify their God-given gifts and talents and how they can use them for the glory of His Kingdom, now and beyond their college years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOMETIMES CONVERSATIONS around a dining hall table can be about \u201cnothing deep,\u201d says EMU campus ministry affiliate Micah Hurst &#8217;02, MA &#8217;18 (church leadership) \u2013 but then a student \u201cwill say something like, \u2018Well, I want to change the subject and ask you&#8230;&#8217;\u201d Hurst, pastor of faith formation for youth and young adults at Weavers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"featured_media":4308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,947],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine","category-springsummer-2019","issues-current-issue","issues-spring-summer-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4363,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions\/4363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}