Campus Ministries
World Challenge
Matt Runion
Associate Campus Pastor
Office of Campus Ministries
Location: HC325
Hours: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Phone: 651.635.8757
Email: matthew-runion@bethel.edu
World Challenge is a group that seeks to promote missions and biblical justice on the Bethel campus by creating an awareness of the needs of the world and providing students with opportunities for involvement.
Weekly Meetings:
Thursdays, 10:20-11 a.m.
Dining Center
Monthly Meals:
We regularly eat together to reaffirm the centrality
of community and fellowship.
Online Community:
Find
us on BLink to stay up-to-date! Click
on “Groups,” “Student
Organizations,” and choose “World
Challenge”!
We also invite you to join our Facebook group.
Group Initiatives:
We want to be faithful followers of the biblical call to justice by,
first of all, being educated and informed ourselves as to the justice
issues for which we are passionate. We then seek to bring those issues
to the Bethel community in a clear and coherent way—to raise
awareness, funds, and activism from amidst this campus community.
Past initiatives include:
- Invisible Children (film depicting the lives and issues surrounding child soldiers in Uganda)
- Gulu Walk (solidarity event for child soldiers in Uganda)
- Annual Fair Trade Market in November (featuring fairly traded goods from around the world—just in time for Christmas gift-giving)
- $1 Campaigns (mobilizing Bethel community members to each give $1—showing the incredible impact of our contributions)
Areas of involvement in the past include:
- Africa
- India
- HIV/AIDS
- Fair Trade
- Creation Care and Environmental Concern
- Twin Cities Issues
- Bethel Connections