[April 23, 2012] — Molly Scherer (left) is a student leader in the Campus Crusade ministry at Purdue University. Which is something she never planned on when she entered college.

“Up until college, I never had anything to do with religion or God,” she explains. “I didn’t believe in God, and my family never went to church.”

She Saw Their Devotion

During her freshman year at Purdue, Molly met a number of Christian students. She was impressed by their devotion to Christ, and their inclusion of nonbelievers like her into their circle of friends. She started attending church on occasion and went to other Christian events.

One of these events was Purdue’s Symposium, an annual event sponsored by Faculty Commons along with many other campus organizations and local churches. Spearheaded by Faculty Commons’ staff Corey Miller, the annual Symposium addresses head-on the issues that keep many spiritual seekers from knowing Christ.

Science and Christianity

It accomplished exactly that for Molly. “I had always believed that science and Christianity were conflicting, that you had to choose one or the other, so I was interested in going to the Symposium to hear what the speaker had to say about that,” she recalls.

After the Symposium, Molly met with a Campus Crusade for Christ staff member who explained the Gospel and gave her a copy of Josh McDowell’s More Than A Carpenter.

After several weeks of discussing what it means to become a Christian, Molly accepted Christ. “I admitted that I don’t have control over my life, that God was real and He loved me and I wanted to live my life for Him!” she says. “It was a good day, March 26th 2009.”

Corey Miller (right). His ministry at Purdue is one of many across the country where professors are finding appropriate ways to share their faith and interact with students and colleagues.

 

Next Year

For the past five years, we have assisted ministries like Corey’s. Steve has led a team of staff members tasked with creating ministry tools. This next year Steve will begin working fulltime on campus again with professors.

We thought you might like hearing what can happen through professors who catch a vision of seeing themselves as purposeful in their faith: