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Christian Union Alumni Share Insights, Encouragement at Brown

Tom Campisi

Managing Editor

Christian Union: The Magazine

Being a leader with Christian Union at Brown helped Ayisha Jackson make a smooth transition to urban missionary when she graduated in May.

Jackson, an engineering major, said the ministry’s emphasis on a seeking-God lifestyle and rigorous Bible study prepared her for her work with Renaissance Church in Providence, Rhode Island.

Jackson returned to campus in the fall as a participant in Christian Union’s Life After Graduation panel discussion, which included three other members of the class of 2018 who are active in vocational ministry at Brown: Gianna Uson, an intern with Christian Union; Isaac Whitney, an intern with Athletes in Action; and Katie Hay, an intern with InterVarsity.

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The Cornell team won the SpokenWord competition at Nexus. In the video below, students from Cornell University deliver creatively combined portions of Scripture in a dramatic performance at the conference. (4:21)

Students from Yale University deliver creatively combined portions of Scripture in a dramatic SpokenWord performance at Christian Union's Nexus 2019 conference. (4:24)

Students from Princeton University deliver creatively combined portions of Scripture in a dramatic SpokenWord performance at Christian Union's Nexus 2019 conference. (5:59)

Students from Dartmouth College deliver creatively combined portions of Scripture in a dramatic SpokenWord performance at Christian Union's Nexus 2019 conference. (4:38)

Students from Columbia University deliver creatively combined portions of Scripture in a dramatic SpokenWord performance at Christian Union's Nexus 2019 conference. (4:07)

Students from Stanford University deliver creatively combined portions of Scripture in a dramatic SpokenWord performance at Christian Union's Nexus 2019 conference. (5:26)

Zachary Albanese

Christian Union Director of Ministry

Dartmouth College

"Our Lord Jesus wants our joy to be full. Certainly, he has made abundant provision for our joy. And if we focus our minds on the facts from which joy flows, springs of joy will well up in our hearts every day of our lives; and this will turn our ongoing pilgrimage through this world into an experience of contentment and exaltation of which the world knows nothing" (J. I. Packer, God’s Plans for You, 125).

J. I. Packer rightly asserts that we can have joy because Jesus has made abundant provision for our joy. Christians are called to have joy in the midst of trials, rough days, bad times—you name it.

At the conclusion of Christian Union's Nexus 2019 SpokenWord competition the audience enjoyed the performance of Baraka Kwa Wimbo. Members are Cornell students: Iyaniwura Olarewaju, Maame Akosua Ohemeng-Tinyase, Maxine Nzewgwu, Rachel Mends, Kaitlyn Blake and Adaeze Okorie. (8:22)

Matt Bennett is founder and CEO of Christian Union. A native of Houston, Texas, Matt earned BS and MBA degrees from Cornell University and holds a Master of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He worked for Campus Crusade for Christ (Cru) at Princeton University for 12 years, and developed that ministry into one of the largest in the history of the Ivy League. In 2002, he founded Christian Union. The ministry has been featured in The New York Times, PBS, NPR, Christianity Today, and World Magazine. Matt resides in New York City.

Matt Bennett kicked off Christian's Union Nexus 2019 conference by inviting students to consider the example set by one of the kings of the Old Testament: Jehoshaphat. As a leader, Jehoshaphat "set his heart to seek God", was obedient to walk in God's ways, and was took bold initiative to lead his people to the Lord.

Matt emphasized the grace that God offers and urged students to take time with God to search their hearts. He asked: Does anything prevent you from being courageous in the ways of the LORD? (32:53)