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TRANSFORMING COLLEGE STUDENTS TO TRANSFORM THE WORLD

HOW THE CHURCH CHANGES EVERYTHING

WHY THE LOCAL CHURCH IS ESSENTIAL TO CCO MINISTRY

The church is a messy place. It is where the best and worst of human nature is on display.

Why expend the time and energy to connect college students to a local congregation when it is more efficient to surround undergraduates with other 18- to 22-year-olds?

The Scriptures remind us that the church, in its many expressions, is the Bride of Christ. The church is where students can hear Biblical preaching, receive the sacraments, and learn to live in fellowship with other broken sinners.

In my 17 years leading the CCO, I’ve repeatedly seen the Lord transform students in ways that could only happen in the context of the local church. I’ve also seen college students give back to the congregations that have embraced them.

What you will read about here is a taste of what God is doing across the 115 campuses we serve. We believe that the best place for the seed of the Gospel to grow roots is still the church. Thank you for believing it with us.

Daniel J. DupeePresident & CEO Coalition for Christian Outreach

ABOUT THE CCOThe CCO (Coalition for Christian Outreach) calls college students to serve Jesus Christ with their entire lives.

Our ministry is distinct in three ways:

1. We develop students to be passionate leaders who serve Jesus Christ in their studies, jobs, communities, and families.

2. We serve together with the church, inviting students into the lives of local congregations.

3. We design each ministry to fit the needs of every campus we serve.

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“I was drawn to the CCO because of the church partnership aspect of the ministry. I noticed upon graduation that many people who had been involved in campus ministry groups stopped going to church because they could not find one that catered specifically to them. I realized that ministry in a college setting needs to prepare students for an intergenerational life.”

Located in the middle of the University of Pittsburgh’s campus, Bellefield Presbyterian

Church’s commitment to reach-ing out to the surrounding university community has a long history. The church began partnering with the CCO more than 40 years ago, and thousands of students have since graduated and are serving Jesus Christ all over the world.

“Bellefield sees itself as a ‘sending’ church,” says Joshua Brown, Bellefield’s senior pastor. “We can reach and disciple students for a season of life before they go to follow the Lord’s call in various vocational fields around the world.

“Many students who were part of our university ministry grad-uate and find jobs in the greater Pittsburgh area, and they remain committed members of the con-gregation. They raise their families here, serve in leadership positions, and invest in the next generation of university ministry at Bellefield because of how it had an impact on their own lives. And CCO staff members bring a wealth of experience and skill, allowing us to reach far more students than we could possibly reach apart from their work.”

Hundreds of students thrive at Bellefield, but there is an even more strategic reason why the CCO chooses to partner with the local church. Students who learn how to participate in a local church during college are much

HOW THE CHURCH CHANGES EVERYTHINGFOR COLLEGE STUDENTS @ THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

BOBBIPERKINSCCO staff member at the University of Pittsburgh

“I was drawn to the CCO because of the church partnership aspect of the ministry. I noticed upon graduation that many people who had been involved in campus ministry groups stopped going to church because they could not find one that catered specifically to them. I realized that ministry in a college setting needs to prepare students for an intergenerational life.”

more likely to stay involved with a church after they graduate.

In 1988, Ken Miller was a Pitt student who lived in the dorms across the street from Bellefield Presbyterian Church. He had seen signs for the CCO fellowship group, “but I was partying with the engineers on my floor and getting farther and farther away from God. I hit bottom one night when I was in my dorm room, totally drunk, yet playing some old worship songs on my guitar and singing about Jesus. I overheard one of the guys on my floor walk past my room and make fun of my pathetic situation. It was then that I knew I had to return to church and seek God with all my heart. Shortly after that, I

started attending the CCO fellowship and Bellefield Church.”

Since Ken graduated, he has attended church actively, been involved in several ministries, and participated in mission trips all over the world.

“The CCO fellowship group gave me a church home and a place to develop Christian friendships and study the Bible again,” he says. “It changed the direction of my life. ”

“Our goal is to help students learn what it means to serve and be served in the local church,” says CCO staff member Chris Ansell. “Helping walk students through that last step of adoles-cence and set them up for faith and life beyond college is such a high calling.”

About the University of PittsburghThe University of Pittsburgh is one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduate education accord-ing to The Princeton Review’s 2015 edition of its annual college guide, The Best 379 Colleges. Nearly 30,000 students are enrolled at Pitt’s main campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

Six CCO staff members partner with Bellefield Presbyterian Church, reaching out to undergraduate and graduate students.

HOW THE CHURCH CHANGES EVERYTHINGFOR COLLEGE STUDENTS @ THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

Chris Ansell

Greg Burdette

Mark Michaelis

Andy Moore

Bobbi Perkins

Brytani Hinson

HOW THE CHURCHFOR COLLEGE STUDENTS

CHANGESEVERYTHING@ THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Once I began going to City Church, my involve-ment with both the church and CCO’s ministry on campus began to grow. As I got to know City

Church members, I was also able to see the needs of the church and where I could help. Part of my involvement has been teaching children’s church. I find that as a teacher, I can integrate my artistic skills into my ministry.

Being involved in the CCO’s ministry grounded my experi-ence as a student. As an artist, most of your time is spent alone in your studio, so the need for community is even more pressing. It takes effort outside your work to seek out individ-uals you resonate with. Once I entered into this community, I found rest.

The members of the CCO’s group, The Whitefield Society, became my family on campus, and a network that introduced me to other communities.

My life would have been very different had I not con-nected to this campus ministry. There is a refreshing quality to The Whitefield Society that engages students from all different cultural backgrounds and integrates them with the surrounding community. I not only entered into the community on campus, but the network spilled into the neighborhoods as well.

I met a blend of Christians of various backgrounds, includ-ing artists, writers, nurses, and pre-med students who were willing to explore incorporat-ing their faith into their work.

I never would have seen how the Kingdom is this far-reaching if I had not encountered the CCO’s ministry on campus.

LISACHINUniversity of Pennsylvania 2015, Bachelor of Fine Arts, now a painter, teacher, and freelance artist

CITY CHURCH Philadelphia was specifically planted in 2006 in an urban

university community in order to reach out to this highly influential community of people.

“With nearly 20 universities in the Philadelphia region, the observation that the university has replaced the church as the moral center of our society carries great weight,” says City Church pastor, Tuck Bartholomew. “We strive to apply the Christian faith in ways that engage not only in the challenges of vocation and family life in the city, but those of the academy as well.”

CCO staff members Sonja and Michael Chen have been at the center of City Church’s ministry to college students since 2010. Their primary outreach is to students at the University of Pennsylvania.

“We encourage students to plug into the life of the church,” says Sonja. “They help with com-munion, Sunday set-up, choir, hospitality, children’s ministry, and service projects that the church organizes, like volunteering at a local elementary school.”

City Church also offers students opportunities to use their particular gifts in ministry.

“As a childen’s church teacher, I want to inform the children that the arts can be a way to express their worship to God,” says artist and recent Penn grad, Lisa Chin. “I never felt my role as an artist in the church to be as active as in my participation with City Church.”

A congregation of approximately 200 members, City Church is small enough that people are able to get to know each other. Many professors and university admin-istrators are members of the church, and they interact with students as mentors and show up at fellowship meetings as guest speakers. Other church members serve the students by cooking for monthly after-church lunches.

“Our big goal is for students to learn to apply the Gospel to every area of their lives by learning to talk very specifi-cally to every area of their lives,” says Sonja. “We help students through their self-consciousness about the Gospel and challenge them to turn that around in con-versations with non-Christian friends.”

To create a safe place for students to bring their non-Christian friends, Michael initiated the CCO group on campus, The Whitefield Society,

which has been highly effective in both challenging Christians to grow as well as welcoming those who are not familar with the Christian faith.

AS PENN SENIOR Mark Hoover says, “The Whitefield Society helps us take responsibility for our theological musings and thus is a major

part of the story of how we have matured at college. What I appreciate the most about Mike and Sonja is their enthusiasm for and commitment to our ideas, the way they share their lives with us, and the way they chal-lenge us sometimes to leave our intellectual castles and work out our faith in the real world.

“What the CCO provides is a way for us to move beyond our theological frustrations and dreams into actually putting them into reality, and a context in which we can do so with the encouragement and guidance we desperately need to do this well. ”

About the University of PennsylvaniaFounded by Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia’s University of Pennsylvania is one of America’s most prestigious Ivy League universities. Today, Penn enrolls nearly 25,000 undergraduate and graduate students.

Through their ministry at City Church, CCO staff members Sonja and Michael Chen also interact with students at nearby Drexel University and University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. Sonja has primary responsibilities for the ministry since Michael assumed the role of the CCO’s Director of Cross-Cultural Ministry in 2014.

Sonja and Michael Chen

WHAT STUDENTS SAY

ELISETAYLOR University of Pennsylvania 2015, Nursing major

I came in contact with Mike Chen during my fresh-man year of college. He

wanted to run a philosophical discussion group in my dorm. It would be a space where anyone could come to discuss big life questions. It also provided an opportunity for me and two other Christian friends to put forth a thoughtful Christian worldview.

I was blown away by the results. The group met for the entirety of the year and became a community with real sharing and vulnerability. I discovered how much I had to learn from my agnostic, atheist, and Jewish dorm mates. They didn’t know Christ, but they did have thought-out, developed world-views and they pushed me to sharpen my understanding.

RYANKRUK University of Pittsburgh, 2014; Bachelor of Science, Master of Public Health, Master of Physician Assistant Studies, now a Physician Assistant and elder at Bellefield Church

As a college student, the CCO ministry provided me with the

tools and environment to grow and own my Christian faith and then experience what it is like to live that out day to day. This type of faith has made a difference in many aspects of my life, from serving in the church to seeking a job in which I can help those most in need. Most of all, it has made a difference in the relationships that I have with others.

JENNACARLSONUniversity of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health 2016

I think it would have been extremely easy to focus most of my attention

on school and “put off ” my relationship with God if I didn’t have such strong fel-lowship within the CCO and Bellefield Church. There is a lot of pressure in graduate school to ignore anything that could be regarded as a social life and devote your energy to your research. Being surrounded by other Christians who help me grow in my faith helps me to build my identity in Christ instead of in my work. I don’t think I would have had the strength and convic-tion to grow in my faith during these past few years if I weren’t plugged in with the CCO at Bellefield.

STEPHANIEDIEWALDUniversity of Pittsburgh 2017, Communication Science and Disorders major

Bellefield Church has made involvement easy for me because the con-

gregation is so committed and welcoming to college students. I help to teach 2nd and 3rd grade Sunday school every other week, which has been such a joy because I really missed being around children while away at school. Bellefield also recently established an Adopt-a-Student program, where I have been so blessed to have a couple serve as spiritual mentors and practi-cally family for me. I think it is incredibly important for college students to really immerse themselves in a congregation where they can grow spiritually alongside young adults who are recently out of college, older people, and children, and I have loved the opportunity to have a church home away from home.

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To find out more, please contact Allyson Sveda at 412-363-3303 ext. 130 or asveda@ccojubilee.org.

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OUR BOARDWHY TOM AND DOUGIE TRUMBLE GIVE TO THE CCOTom and Dougie Trumble met as freshmen at Ohio Wesleyan University, and they graduated and were married in 1968. Tom was employed for 30 years by Aetna; he currently does marketing for a finan-cial planning firm. Dougie volunteers in a variety of church, community, and school settings. The Trumbulls now live in West Hartford, Connecticut. They have three daughters and four grandchildren, and they love travel, gardening, sports, and trying to stay fit.

How have you been involved with the CCO’s ministry over the years?We initially supported the CCO to help Dougie’s brothers, Dave and Dan Dupee, both of whom were CCO campus staff after college. Our oldest daughter had a great experience with CCO staff member Sandie Starr on campus at Ohio Wesleyan University.

We’ve enthusiastically attended the Jubilee conference, and we’ve gladly donated annually to the ministry of the CCO. In June, we joined a group of CCO staff and supporters on a faith-filled, wonderful trip to Israel. We were inspired by the deep commitment of the campus staff who joined us on that trip.

Why do you support the CCO? Why should others support the CCO?We admire the CCO’s commitment to college students. Increasingly, there are so many directions young people can go, and the CCO provides a solid path to discipleship. Over the years, we have watched the CCO’s mission and influence grow.

At this point in our lives, it is important to us to feel that our char-itable giving is meaningful and that it will make a difference in people’s lives. We fully believe that the CCO does make a real difference.

Why did you decide to make a planned gift to the CCO? By choosing to make a planned gift, we feel that our money will help further the important ministry of the CCO. We want to make sure it continues in the future! We have faith that God and CCO together will keep transforming lives.

Have you remembered the CCO in your estate plans or through another planned gift? For more information, please contact Allyson Sveda, Director of Development, at 412.363.3303.

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