Along with great opportunity at Boston's outstanding colleges and universities, students find:
- Critical choices about lifestyle
- Racial tension
- Peer pressure
- Substance abuse
- Loneliness
- Stress - Contempt for Christianity
In any given year, 150,000 undergraduate students attend
colleges and universities in the Boston area. Currently, only about 2%
are active in a witnessing community.
InterVarsity’s Purpose
The purpose of InterVarsity is to help students grow in their love for God, God’s word, God’s people of every ethnicity and culture, and God’s purposesthroughout the world.
InterVarsity's Mission
The mission of InterVarsity in the Boston Fenway Area is to transform, renew, and change God-skeptics into world changers for the Kingdom.
More potently
than by any other
means, change the
university and you
change the world.”
- Charles Malik Former President,
UN General Assembly
InterVarsity's Strategy
The heart of InterVarsity's strategy is one student inviting
another to follow Jesus Christ through:
- Small group Bible study
- Weekly worship and teaching gatherings - Daily prayer times
- Outreach events
- Training on how to share Jesus
- Personal discipleship
- Summer missions trips - Spring break urban projects
- Weekend retreats