Ministry case for Graduate and Faculty Ministries at Arizona State University

1. GRADUATE FACULTY MINISTRIES
AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
Geoff Gentry
thisisgeoffgentry@gmail.com
530.903.9375

2. There are 18,000+ graduate students and
professors at Arizona State University.
There is no focused ministry serving them.

3. InterVarsity’s Graduate and Faculty
Ministries can offer what ASU needs:
consistent and thoughtful ministry
to and through graduate students
and professors on campus.
“Our mission is to encourage and equip graduate
students and faculty to follow Christ as they seek to
be a redeeming influence among the people, ideas,
and structures of the university and professions.”

4. InterVarsity has ministries over 680
college campuses across the country.

5. Our ministry model has
4 guiding principles:
• Spiritual Formation
• Community
• Evangelism and Service
• The Integration of Faith,
Learning & Practice.

6. SPIRITUAL FORMATION

7. COMMUNITY

8. EVANGELISM & SERVICE

9. INTEGRATION OF FAITH,
LEARNING, AND PRACTICE.

10. All of these principles come
together through a unified vision of
seeing the campus renewed by the
power of God’s transforming love.
Every graduate student and every professor
deserves a chance to explore how their faith
integrates into their experience of study, vocation
and life on campus.

11. No one is trying it like this. Graduate and Faculty
Ministries is a wide open opportunity to get in on the
ground floor of the new thing God is doing at ASU.

12. 5 campuses
16 colleges
400+ degree options
ARIZONA STATE
IS MADE UP OF:

13. In the 2017-2018 school year
our ministry goals are to:
• Share the vision of GFM with 250
students/faculty Develop a core team
of 15 students/faculty
• Start/sustain 2 missional communities
• Develop 6 apprentices ready to start
something new
• Connect with 6 of the 16 the colleges at
ASU
• Give 3 calls to faith
• Hire 1 part-time staff and add 2
volunteers to our GFM ministry team.

14. Ministries are made up of 3 key resources:
prayer, people and money.
In order to sustain 24/hrs a week of GFM work at ASU I am
looking for partners in these areas:
• People who will sustain the ministry through regular prayer
• People who will sustain the ministry through financial giving
• People who will volunteer to help serve graduate students
and faculty
• People who will connect me to Christian graduate and
faculty at ASU

15. How will God call you to partner
together with us to start Graduate
Faculty Ministry at Arizona State?