40-Day Seasons
Christian Union invites Christians from around the country and world to join together in special seasons of prayer and fasting.
Previous 40-days initiatives have made a tremendous impact in the lives of participants. Christian Union has heard from many of the hundreds who participated, encouraging the ministry to call and give leadership to ongoing 40 Day Initiatives.
During each of the 40 Days Initiatives, participants have shared wonderful stories about ways that God moved in their lives. These 40 Days Initiatives are now being run through Christian Union's new Day & Night ministry. To learn more, go to DayAndNight.org/moves.
Join the Movement to Change Culture
Pray
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." Matthew 7:8, 9When believers pray, God hears and responds.
How to pray for Christian Union >
Christian Union's ministry faculty and staff is also committed to praying for others, and if you have a prayer request you'd like to share, please do—so we can know how to pray for you.
Submit your prayer requests here >
Give
When you give to Christian Union, you help evangelize an unreached people group - the relatively small number of men and women whose leadership choices affect the daily lives of millions and who help to shape culture, from the economy, to entertainment, to the legal system.Help develop men and women of wholehearted devotion to God, and help them to build relational and professional networks that will increase Christian cultural influence .
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Advocate
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- Talk to Christian parents - Many Christian parents of students applying to college have well-founded concerns about their children attending these leading universities, known for their sometimes intense secularism. Talk to parents about the role Christian Union is playing to develop students into mature believers and effective culture changers.
- Inform high schools - Share with administrators, teachers and guidance counselors of Christian schools about the Christian leadership development ministries at these universities so they in turn can communicate with parents and students.
Discuss with friends and colleagues - Many believers are passionate about changing our culture and may be eager to learn more about Christian Union. Please tell them about the unique focus and approach of this ministry.
Share Socially
By taking the simple step of sharing content posted here or on social sites with your friends, you expand the ministry's reach and will help accelerate the mission to bring about culture change.
Refer Others
For culture to be transformed by the Gospel, thousands of believers must learn about and come alongside to support Christian Union’s strategic approach. Christian Union's primary way of communicating is through the free quarterly Christian Union Magazine and monthly prayer e-mails (recipients select which of the Christian Union university ministries they wish to hear from).Those you refer do not need to be affliated with the eight universities where Christian Union operates. Your friend with a heart burdened to see culture change may be an exciting match for the mission of this ministry.
Send the address and/or e-mail address of those you think may be interested to receive these communications. Please include a first and last name.
Referrals could include:
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- Friends
- Alumni
- Staff & Faculty
- Parents
- Churches
- Foundations
Connect Students to Ministry
Let Christian Union know about incoming and current students at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Penn or Yale that would benefit from Christian leadership development. Christian Union faculty and student leaders are warmly welcoming of interested and curious students, inviting them to participate in the ministry in a variety of meaningful ways.Send student name >
Engage with Your Alma Mater
If you are an alumni of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Penn or Yale, you can have extraordinary influence with your alma mater. By being involved with your universities, you can have a powerful witness for Jesus Christ.Some suggested ways to engage:
- Participate in alumni boards and activities
- Attend reunions
- Write respectfully to the administration or alumni magazine when Christian values need to be defended
Magazine Story Ideas
Christian Union seeks to inform readers about the spiritual activity at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Penn and Yale through Christian Union: The Magazine. Let the ministry know of opportunities and challenges for the Gospel at these universities. Share encouraging stories of alumni who are Christian leaders in their respective fields.Send stories >
Share Your Story
If you would like to share about your experience as a student, parent, donor or friend of Christian Union, please send in your story. The ministry may ask for permission to share it as an encouragement to others who are learning about Christian Union.Send stories >
Seeking God matters.
Thank you for your interest in seeking God with Christian Union and joining us in praying for Christian Union's various ministries. Prayer and fasting are at the core of everything that Christian Union does. We are excited to share the Three Spiritualities, annual fasts and times of prayer, fasting resources, and a wealth of devotional materials. Please pray that God is glorified and that His name is lifted in all the ministry does.The Three Spiritualites provide rich theological and biblical content to ground seeking God practices in the Word of God and spiritual exemplars like Paul or Daniel. The Three Spiritualities aim to cultivate a deep hunger for God, a commitment to spiritual disciplines, joyful obedience and repentance, and more.
Fasting, in particular, is a powerful way of cultivating humility before God. Please consider joining fasts or beginning your own to seek God for this nation. “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6).
For more resources on prayer and fasting, as well as information on Christian Union's upcoming fasts and events, visit cuamerica.org
There are many ways we'd invite you to consider praying:
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- To pray at a high level for Christian Union, please subscribe to our eNewsletter. It will arrive in your email box every other week, and include prayer requests for Christian Union's various ministries.
- If you'd like more detailed prayer emails from specific Christian Union ministries, there are two ways to get them. If you send an email to prayer@christianunion.org with your email address and a list of which ministry prayer updates you'd like to receive, you will be subscribed. You can also scroll down and click on the cities or universities link to see the most recent prayer requests. You will also be able to subscribe to those pages.
- Please join with other believers across America by signing up to pray for our nation at Christian Union America website.
Christian Union Cities
Please pray that God would be glorified and move powerfully in and through the lives of each person involved in the ministry. Pray for those seeking to bring about cultural change in the city through their spheres of influence, that they would seek God with all their hearts. As Jesus reminded us, pray for laborers because the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
Specific requests for Christian Union New York >
Christian Union Universities
Pray for Christian students, their non-Christian peers, Christian Union Bible courses, the various student organizations that Christian Union serves, and for God to move powerfully on these campuses in the hearts and minds of tomorrow's future leaders.
Join Us in Asking God to Intervene
Psalm 127:1 reminds us that "unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain." We are profoundly aware how reliant we are on God as we seek to make a difference for Him. Any lasting fruit will be the result of His work in the lives of those to whom we minister.We count it a privilege to be involved in the lives of others. Would you please join us in praying for our various ministries?
CHRISTIAN UNION'S UNIVERSITY MINISTRIES
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Dartmouth College | Prayer Requests |
Harvard College | Prayer Requests |
Harvard Law | Prayer Requests |
Princeton University | Prayer Requests |
Stanford University | Prayer Requests |
University of Pennsylvania | Prayer Requests |
Yale University | Prayer Requests |
Help Transform Lives and Culture for the Glory of God
The Mission
The mission of Christian Union is to transform our nation and the world by developing and connecting bold Christian leaders.The Need
Christian Union is growing and seeks talented and motivated individuals to join the ministry in a variety of capacities.Currently open positions are listed on pages in the menu in the left column of this page.
If you'd prefer to download and mail the enrollment form, please download it here.
If you are simply looking to make a one-time gift to Christian Union by mail (instead of credit card, above) please make it out to Christian Union and send it to 19 Vandeventer AVenue, Princeton, NJ 08542.
THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
Christian Union is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. All donations are tax-deductible as to the extent allowed by applicable law. To learn more about the benefits, and rights and responsibilities, of Cornerstone Partners, please go to www.ChristianUnion.org/cp-benefitsandrights.
The ministry is a member of the Evangelical Council on Financial Accountability (ECFA) and has its finances audited annually. Charges to credit cards appear as “Christian Union 6098740040.”
If you have questions, please contact a partner representative at (609) 874-0040, or email us at giving@ChristianUnion.org.
That’s why Christians started many of America’s finest universities more than a century ago. Did you know that Harvard, Yale, and Princeton—along with other influential schools in America—were created to be places where a student could discover a love for God and for his neighbor?
These schools were founded to develop and train Christian leaders, equipping them to help change the world for God’s glory.
Unfortunately, the Gospel that enables such radical transformation has long since been replaced with destructive ideologies that leave many students hopeless and helpless to confront the challenges facing our nation. As you know, these institutions, and the ideologies they promote, will shape American culture for decades to come.
We know that this concerns you.
Alumni of these schools play an enormously important role in our society, and now lead many of America’s most powerful companies, media organizations, academic institutions, and political campaigns. In fact, a Christian Union study of influential leaders in America showed that 67% are alumni of just 20 schools.
If we are going to bring change America, we need, by God's grace, to see these schools radically transformed. That’s why the Lord gave people like you a vision for dramatic spiritual revival at these very places. As a result, in 2002 Christian Union was launched at Princeton.
The goal? To bring sweeping spiritual transformation to the nation’s most influential universities and key cities that shape American culture.
Here’s the best part. This vision is becoming a reality. Since 2002, the ministry has expanded to Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Harvard Law, Penn, Stanford, and Yale. It is also working with Christian professionals in New York City.
Right now, Christians like you are engaging thousands of students in our most influential—and secular—universities with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the hope it brings. You can help make this happen.
Your donation today:
- Provides intellectually rigorous Bible courses that introduce students to the love of Jesus and strengthens their faith.
- Enables a network of mentors on every campus that walk alongside students through the difficult days of their college experience, discipling them and encouraging them to excel academically, relationally, and spiritually.
- Empowers emerging Christian leaders to transform business, the media, and our culture with the timeless truth of Christ.
You can help make America a nation in which the Gospel has penetrated every people group and where Christians, filled with the Holy Spirit, are seeking God as the defining characteristic of their lives.
By giving, you will become a Cornerstone Partner, and you will receive special Cornerstone Partner communications and occasional invitations to special events for Partners, free of charge.
Use the secure form below to make your gift and to help strategic universities and cities—and through them, America—return to God.
Christian Union is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. All donations are tax-deductible as to the extent allowed by applicable law. To learn more about the benefits, and rights and responsibilities, of Cornerstone Partners, please go to www.ChristianUnion.org/cp-benefitsandrights.