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A C C O F I R S T: VIRTUAL JUBILEE + 50 YEARS OF GOD'S FA I T H F U L N E S S + E V E RY HEART & MIND F T. B E T H & BYRON BORGER
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On February 27, 2021, the CCO hosted a Jubilee conference like none other in the gathering’s 44-year-old history—it was virtual. At first, this broke our hearts. There would be no crowds, no book tables, no late-night talks in hotel lobbies. There would be no bumping into an old friend in the convention center, no unexpected connections with a stranger in the next seat. Instead, there would be more screens. And college students have spent so much time on screens in the past year! Would it really be worth it to spend one more day together, apart? But our God is full of surprises. So this is where we put our trust.
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Jubilee’s four main-stage talks tell the story of God’s creating, redeeming, and restorative work in every square inch of the cosmos. Our first speaker, Ashlee Eiland, launched us into the day with these words: The best stories grow roots...they have this way of getting into our hearts, our minds, and our souls. So don’t write this one off as too familiar. Because expectancy today might just be the very ingredient that God uses to bring alive something in you. Creation. Fall. Redemption. Restoration. As the Story went out, the photos came in. First, a picture from Graystone Presbyterian Church (one of the first CCO partner churches in 1971!) with Indiana University of Pennsylvania students scattered throughout the sanctuary. A photo of a student from Hope Church in Memphis, Tennessee—painting on a canvas as she experienced Jubilee.
Then more images of students gathered in churches and on couches poured in: La Roche. Kent State. Virginia Tech. Youngstown State. Washington & Jefferson. Shippensburg. Then a photo from a large living room—in Puerto Rico. A church in the Bahamas sent a shot of 50 students worshiping together. And Ray Wiesen, campus ministry staff at Penn State Abington, sent a collage of student selfies with one young man’s caption: This content is so good, I’m taking notes on a Saturday! — After the photos came the stories. They are stories like the ones in this magazine—stories of God’s creative, redeeming, and restorative work. And the theme of this year’s Jubilee conference came alive: Jesus is Lord of every square inch of creation. 3
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EVERY When she moved from the Western Cape of South Africa to Kenyon College in central Ohio, Rebekah knew it wouldn’t be easy. Culture shock is part of every international student’s experience as adjustments in food, setting, and communication collide to make the world—and daily life in it—exhausting. It takes time to adjust. And even as Rebekah settled in, new challenges came. In South Africa, Rebekah’s Christian faith is a part of everyday public life. “At home, I regularly talk to this lady who sells vegetables,” she remembers. “Sometimes we’ll pray together, just openly in the market. It isn’t a big deal.”
Kenyon CCO students safely gather at Gambier Deli for Bible study.
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DURING COVID, OUR GROUP GREW IN BOTH SIZE + D I V E R S I T Y. HOW COULD ANYONE BUT G O D D O T H AT ? But at Kenyon, Rebekah felt tension in the room when she mentioned Jesus; she quickly realized that Christians were seen as “prosecutors” by many of her classmates. “I felt like a minority when I used to be a sort of majority,” she says. “It was definitely a wake-up call, realizing, okay, there’s work to be done. I need to try and navigate this new space.” But the blessing was this: Rebekah didn’t need to navigate this new space alone. When she found the CCO ministry on campus, she met students—both Americans and internationals—who met regularly for worship, Bible study, and prayer. The group was growing. The beginning of 2020 was a hopeful time. Then in March, the whole world underwent a kind of culture shock. At Kenyon, students left for spring break and didn’t come back. International students were moved to single rooms and their contacts were limited. Brandie Daniels-Anderson, CCO staff at Kenyon, wasn’t allowed on campus, but she bought treats and asked other students to leave
sealed bags on doorsteps. When Kiro, a student from Egypt, had a birthday, Brandie even organized a chocolate cake delivery! On Easter, Kiro and Ubong, a “During Covid, our group grew first-year student from Nigeria, in both size and diversity,” helped deliver around 30 dinners Brandie marvels. “How could and treat bags to isolated anyone but God do that?” When students. They invited everyone Dylan returned to campus in the to a Zoom call, where they fall, he met Kiro, Ubong, and shared the Easter story. After Rebekah for the first time. He this, some students who hadn’t started to invite his teammates. been involved in the CCO group And as the ministry grew, it joined the online studies, and became known as one of the most Brandie and the student leaders multicultural decided to T H E D I F F E R E N C E S groups on continue campus. meeting over A L L O W T H E M T O the summer. K E E P A W I D E V I E W Conversations OF JESUS' LOVE aren’t always Dylan is FOR ALL PEOPLE. easy, but the one of the differences students who between students allow them to joined the summer Bible study. keep a wide view of Jesus’ love He grew up in a Catholic family for all people. It also gives them a but was too busy with basketball rich perspective on God’s Word. during his first year to get “I’m always glad when other involved in anything else. When people share, because our group the pandemic hit, Dylan found is like the Bible,” Kiro explains. a Bible that someone had given “There are so many people who him as a graduation gift, and he opened it for the first time. When wrote it in so many writing styles, and each one has their own he didn’t understand something, culture. It’s like a beautiful piece he looked up YouTube videos. of art, and I think that coming Then Dylan found out about the to the Scriptures with all our online Kenyon Bible study. Soon different perspectives is helpful.” he was a regular attendee.
Above: Students pray as CCO student leader Ashley Li reads names of Atlanta shooting victims.
OUR GROUP IS LIKE A BEAUTIFUL PIECE O F A R T.
In the midst of all these perspectives, Brandie works to cultivate a space that is open and transparent. “I think that we’re able to navigate very difficult conversations quite wonderfully,” she says. When there are disagreements, she reminds students to talk about how they’ve been formed by God and how they’ve arrived at what they believe. In this way, students come to the Scriptures with
an appreciation of each other’s God-given histories. And they leave the Bible study more deeply connected to one another. Christ is building His Body, in the midst of Covid, on Kenyon’s campus. And—thanks be to our infinitely creative God—it is beautiful to behold.
AFTER THIS I LOOKED, AND BEHOLD, A GREAT MULTITUDE THAT NO ONE COULD NUMBER, FROM EVERY NATION, FROM ALL TRIBES AND PEOPLES AND LANGUAGES, STANDING BEFORE THE THRONE AND BEFORE THE LAMB, CLOTHED IN WHITE ROBES, WITH PALM BRANCHES IN THEIR HANDS, AND CRYING OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE, “SALVATION BELONGS TO OUR GOD WHO SITS ON THE THRONE, AND TO THE LAMB!” / REVELATION 7:9-10
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WHAT IF THIS WAS PLAN A ? When it became clear that Jubilee 2021 would be a virtual event, Geraud Brumfield, campus staff in Fresno, California, was given a charge by the CCO’s Multiethnic Ministry Department. Every year, this department hosts EveryPraise, a student talent show and latenight option for the conference. It has been a highlight of the weekend, showcasing students at the intersection of their talents and faith on the Jubilee stage. But how could this experience possibly be replicated online? So Geraud asked, What if, instead of seeing the virtual replacement as plan B, we thought of it as plan A? How could we do EveryPraise better than before? In the fall of 2020, Geraud teamed up with Brandie Daniels-Anderson, CCO staff at Kenyon College, and they got to work. Students from all over the country submitted videos of their music, dance, and spoken word performances. Then Geraud and Brandie put out a call for visual art—aptly named Campus Minister’s Fridge. (Because where else would our staff post the beautiful creations of their students than on a virtual refrigerator door?) Then they incorporated a slideshow into the lineup. It was an event that people continue to marvel about, weeks after Jubilee weekend. And now it is our honor to share a small taste of the stories, performances, and artwork that came together one powerful evening—and continue to bring glory to our Creator God.
B E C K A M A T T H E W S (top) painting Art & Art Education, University of Memphis S E L A M H A B T E M A R I A M (left) illustration Neuroscience, Kenyon College More student art on next page
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THIS IS US LIVING OUT OUR CORE VALUE: WE LOVE COLLEGE STUDENTS.
WE LOVE THEM SO MUCH THAT WE CAN’T IMAGINE NOT CELEBRATING THEM. Geraud Brumfield | CCO Staff Fresno, CA, co-curator of EveryPraise & Campus Minister’s Fridge
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R E B E K A H U T I A N (self portrait) Studio Art & Art History, Kenyon College
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S A R A H R A S P B E R R Y (above) digital painting Sociology, Geneva College E M I LY D U N L A P (left) painting Art, Youngstown State University
WA N T M O R E ? Watch DJ in EveryPraise and other student performances at ccojubilee.org/EveryPraise21 D J MAXWELL-GARCIA spoken word Kinesiology Exercise Science, Fresno Pacific University
WE NEVER KNEW YOU HAD THAT IN YOU During the summer of 2020, DJ, a student participating in the CCO’s Encounter Fresno experience, was struggling. Sadness weighed heavily on him, but he and his housemates had planned to go for a hike. So DJ went, but he kept to himself. Eventually, the group stopped to look at a waterfall. And as DJ sat—still apart from the group, staring at the water streaming around the boulders—he was thinking and praying. And then, to his great surprise, inspiration struck. “I was just watching how the water was going around everything, and how there was no rock or boulder that could stop it,” he says. “The water continued to push forward. And later, as I was writing, I realized it was a God thing, because I knew it wasn’t about the water anymore.” God brought his mother and his grandmother to mind, and DJ realized that they—like the water—spent their lives moving around rocks and boulders with power and grace. A spoken word poem came together in his mind. He shared it with his mentor and his housemates, and later, he submitted it to EveryPraise. When it was accepted in December, he sent the video to his mother and grandmother. In January, weeks after she received her beloved grandson’s tribute, DJ’s grandmother passed away. At her funeral, DJ read another piece he had written, and an uncle pulled him aside. “We never knew that you had something like that in you,” his uncle said with awe. In late February, DJ watched along with his mentor and friends as EveryPraise premiered.
They watched him bring glory to God as he honored the strong women he loved. And yes, there were tears. Stream among stone the rest of the world can only imagine to be like you. Do what you do and survive what you were put through… And as you keep going the world takes no second to pause and admire your fluidity just like you don't take a second to pause and admire yourself. I'm hurt at how often you are overlooked, taken for granted, under appreciated, and so many more things that don't fit you. But that's the best part because Stream Among Stone, I know you know your worth… Stream Among Stone, you are beautifully and wonderfully made. Made in God's image. Made by the One who holds all creativity and detail in the world. You are a gift, both to look at and to know. Your value is so much more… The weight of the world on your shoulders. The pressure of expectation in your lower back. But the strength of the Holy Spirit flowing through you... I will always value you. And I can never forget the sight of you. Stream Among Stone, you are beautifully and wonderfully made. — excerpt from “Stream Among Stone” by DJ Maxwell-Garcia
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As we celebrate five decades of ministry to college students, it’s hard to imagine the CCO apart from the contribution of Beth and Byron Borger and their Hearts & Minds Bookstore.
Generations of students have cheered as Byron bounds up to the Jubilee stage, arms laden with the latest must-reads, and urges the crowd to dig deeper into their life in Christ—and their God-given vocations—through thoughtful, transformative books. Outside the ballroom, Beth stands among the beautifully curated book tables, as she and other Hearts & Minds staff engage book-browsers with careful attention and thoughtful recommendations. This goes on until late at night and starts again in the early morning. Passionate. Thoughtful. Prayerful. Personalized. This is bookselling, and so much more. Beth and Byron Borger’s vocation tracks a winding path, but there is also a sense of providence and inevitability to their call. Beth, after all, is the daughter of a librarian and a small-business owner (hardware, not books). She and Byron met as college students over summer vacation. Beth was studying at Gettysburg College while Byron was at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, discovering a deeper, more relevant Christian life, largely due to the influence of the CCO—and to books like Os Guinness’ The Dust of Death. When Beth and Byron married
W H AT W E R E A L LY WA N T E D WA S T O H AV E BOOKS ON SCIENCE + BUSINESS + POLITICS + A R T S O T H AT O R D I N A RY P E O P L E COULD VIEW THEIR W O R K A S M I N I S T RY
WA N T M O R E ? Check out the selection at heartsandmindsbooks.com
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W E WA N T E D TO ENHANCE THIS ONGOING C O N V E R S AT I O N A B O U T W H AT I T MEANS TO BE S A LT + L I G H T I N T H E W O R K A D AY WORLD.
Photography by Taylor Siegfried
and began working as CCO staff with college students at Penn State McKeesport, books were a critical ingredient in their ministry. During those early years, a bookseller named Wes Seervald would come to staff training events and student conferences, stand up on stage with a pile of books and talk about them, one by one. Beth and Byron took note! They were also influenced by the breadth and depth of Christian literature available, the CCO’s commitment to being interdenominational, and the reality that Jesus is Lord over all creation, including our minds and vocations. When they moved back to central Pennsylvania to be near family in 1982, Hearts & Minds Bookstore was born.
– Below: BYRON & BETH on CCO (aka“Coalition”) staff in the late 1970s
To their neighbors—and the occasional book-loving pilgrim —Hearts & Minds is a brick and mortar bookstore, but the Borgers realized early that if they wanted to stock vocation-specific and other unusual Christian books, they would need to go to their customers. So they began to travel to denominational gatherings. “Byron and I both have a love and a passing understanding of a whole lot of Christian traditions,” Beth says. “I think that really helps us understand where somebody is coming from, the theological and cultural influences that have shaped them. That is such an important starting point to know how to recommend something to somebody. I can only thank God that so many streams have converged in our lives to have that happen.”
Hearts & Minds also became regulars at the Jubilee conference, CCO staff training events, and the Ocean City Beach Project. And as the earliest days of the CCO influenced them, so then year by year, book by book, Beth and Byron have given shape to the practical outworkings of the CCO’s all-of-life-redeemed worldview, spreading the word that God cares about every square inch of His good Creation. It is an expansive calling. “Books are tools to help us imagine and live into the future,” Byron says. “We are pulled toward the idea that God is restoring all areas of Creation. And books shape our Christian imagination and character so that we can live well—not just with more knowledge, but with the ability to think and live faithfully as salt and light in the world.”
WE LEARNED T H AT F R O M JUBILEE—YOU NEED TO DO SOME HOMEWORK IN ORDER TO THINK C H R I S T I A N LY ABOUT THESE THINGS Faithfulness in the present with imaginations shaped by hope. This is the restorative goal of each book the Borgers share with college students. This is the ethos of their business. And this has been—and is—their enduring, far-reaching contribution to the CCO.
Below: HEARTS & MINDS display at Jubilee 2019 | image by Andrew Rush
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This year we mark the CCO’s 50th birthday, celebrating five decades of God’s faithfulness through—and sometimes, in spite of—ordinary people trying to transform college students to transform the world. Most of the time, this means that we get a front-row seat to Jesus’ work in students’ lives.
Mandy is a student right now, and Stephanie graduated more than 20 years ago. But their stories are the same in this one way: Jesus met each of them right where they were and changed the course of their lives.
a semester off, but not before I tried to get some kind of help. And so I ended up talking to our campus minister, Mollie.
MANDY HERNANDEZ Allegheny College, class of 2021 Environmental Science
M A N D Y ’ S S T O RY When I came to college, there were a lot of things that I didn’t know, like that a great friendship combined with a spider infestation would change the course of my life. I met my friend Sarah during our freshman year at Allegheny College, and sophomore year I ended up living on the very back corner of campus. This meant that there were bugs and critters all the time, which I thought would be fine, until I ended up with a whole bunch of spiders in my room! And that’s how I knew I needed to move out.
Sarah was living in the Lighthouse, which is the women’s Christian house on campus, and the bed next to hers was empty. I was not a Christian at the time, but I needed a bed so badly that I was like, “That’s fine.” I just needed to get out of where I was living. Living in the Lighthouse was a good experience, but at the end of the year, I still wasn’t sure what I thought about Christianity. I ended up moving out of the house and into another living situation, where I was living without the guidance and love of Christians around me. I struggled a lot and felt really alone the next couple of months. Afterwards, I decided that I was going to take
When I left campus, I took a Bible from the Lighthouse and basically spent my time away in God’s presence, focusing on what life would be like when I got back to campus. I didn’t grow up in a Christian household, so I didn’t know a lot about who Jesus was or what Jesus did. I just knew the stereotypes about Christians. But I got to a point in my life where it felt like I kept making decisions that I thought were good for me, but they’d end up making me feel alone and broken. I could see how Jesus was everything that people talked about, someone who was perfect. A savior. And I knew that I didn’t have to do this by myself.
I COULD SEE H O W J E S U S WA S E V E RY T H I N G P E O P L E TA L K E D A B O U T. Then Jubilee happened. I remember one specific moment. The speaker was like, “If you’re ready to give your life to Jesus, come to the front right now and we’ll have somebody pray for you.” And I remember sitting next to Sarah thinking, “I really
want to get up, but I don’t want to interrupt this whole line of people on the way out.” After a while of sitting, I decided to go for it and said, “Sarah, I need to go up.”And she walked up with me, and there’s this picture of us hugging and crying and praying together. That was a new beginning for me. Now Sarah and I are back together in the Lighthouse. Our senior year in the middle of Covid is really strange, but it’s also been a huge gift to live together again. It also helps because I’m doing my senior project on Christian environmentalism, trying to educate younger Christians on the importance of creation care in their own spiritual journeys, and Sarah has been a good person to bounce ideas off of. This summer, I got accepted for LDW, or Leadership and Discipleship in the Wilderness, which is a CCO project in the middle of Wyoming. I won’t be able to avoid the spiders there, but that’s fine with me! Jesus is with me, and I know he’ll lead me every step of the way.
11 STEPHANIE SUMMERS Kenyon College, class of 1998 CEO of the Center for Public Justice
STEPHANIE’S S T O RY My CCO story starts more than 30 years ago, when a student in Pittsburgh named Bob came to know Christ through the CCO’s ministry. Bob joined CCO staff and led another student named Jeff to Christ. Meanwhile, at Westminster College, a CCO staff member named Matt led a student named Carolyn to Christ. Carolyn and Jeff met at one of the CCO’s summer opportunities and started dating. Carolyn did a season on staff with the CCO, and afterwards, she and Jeff got married and they moved to the North Hills of Pittsburgh, where they became my youth pastors. I met Carolyn and Jeff 30 years ago, and I put up a good front that everything about my life was fine, but things were really a mess at home. And I was a mess. I had started abusing drugs and alcohol when I was 12, and almost everything about my life by the time we met was a lie to cover a lie to cover a lie. Carolyn saw right through me, and she understood my deepest fear without me ever saying it out loud. I still remember the first time she told me, “You are not too bad for God.” She made a drawing for me that outlined creation, fall, redemption, restoration and told me to put it up in my room, which I did. For two more years, she and Jeff
prayed for me and promised to help me when I was ready for help. They probably shared the Gospel with me 200 times in those two years.
And then one morning, after waking up to another aftermath of what had become my full-blown addiction at the age of 16, I knew that my way did not work. I knew I was going to die, but I realized that I wanted to live—and I wanted to live for the Kingdom vision that Carolyn had drawn on that paper. I remember praying, “Hi, Lord. Help.” And that was it. And then I called the kindest, most joyful people I knew, Carolyn and Jeff, to get me the help that I needed.
I LEARNED FROM T H E C C O N E A R LY E V E RY T H I N G T H AT I L E A D F R O M T O D AY. Fast forward to my time at Kenyon College, where God used Kristie (Simo) Martel, who was a CCO student leader a year ahead of me, to keep me connected to the Body of Christ. Her gentle leadership, inviting me to get involved in opportunities for Bible study and prayer, and encouraging me to lead in ways that I was gifted meant that my faith took root and flourished. God’s call to me to join CCO staff was an affirmation of those gifts. I was a poetry major, and during April of my senior year, Byron Pryor, our CCO staff person, said to me, “Stephanie, you’re not that great of a poet, but you’re an awesome student leader. What if you give the CCO three years?” God had me stay for 12— three on campus and nine in organizational leadership. In each of these roles, I had the privilege of serving with some of the most remarkable people
I’ve ever met, whose love for God and transformative vision for every area of life continues to shine light.
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I learned from the CCO nearly everything that I lead from today—not only in the formal training, but in how CCO lives the all-of-life-redeemed vision together. For example, I lived with two married couples during new staff training, and it was my first experience of living with people who had Christ at the center of their marriage. God used their examples to powerfully heal and bless me in ways that shape my own marriage today. Amazingly enough, God also used the CCO to bring me to the Center for Public Justice. I met Jim Skillen, CPJ’s founder, when he spoke at Jubilee when I was a college student. His talk on the biblical vision of justice blew my mind and deeply influenced my life from that point on. From the CCO, I learned the value of work done in partnership with institutions in ways that mutually strengthen the partners, and how to work across lines of deep difference—something that CPJ embodies in our proactive multi-faith work in our diverse society. During my time on staff with the CCO, I learned to feel the fear and do it anyway, because of the sufficiency of who God is. And I learned from my CCO colleagues countless examples of selfless, humble, God-honoring servant leadership. In the course of my work, I interact a lot with people who are deeply skeptical about Christianity. Many times I’ve been pulled aside by one of these people after they’ve observed me working with my team where I trusted them to lead, and they ask me, “How did you get like that?” And then I get to testify to the impact of the CCO on my life and my leadership—and to the goodness of God.
WA N T M O R E ? Watch Mandy’s story come to life at ccojubilee.org/Mandy21
A P R AY E R FOR STUDENTS DIOS DE LAS NACIONES
God of the nations; the Wise Men were studying the sky so You called them into Your story with a star. Just as they found you in the pursuit of their passions, reveal yourself to us in our callings JIDHIHIRISHE KWETU KWA and giftings. WITO NA ZAWADI ZETU
SAEIDANA LINAJD FARHATINA FI DIRASATINA Help us to find joy in our studies,
our creativity, and our relationships. Give us eyes to see You DANOS OJOS PARA VERTE in all that You created us to do. Remind us that when we live into NA ULIPOTUWEKA who You created us to be ULIMWENGUNI and where You placed us in the world, we will find You there.
W HAYTH AWJADATUNA FI ALEALAMI
HAZNOS UN PUEBLO
Make us one people who are united in our common worship of You in all that we are NA YOTE TUNAYOFANYA and all that we do.
FI ALMASIH YASUE NASLI
Through Jesus Christ we pray,
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AMEN. 'AMIN
This multi-lingual prayer was written by CCO staff Heather Strong Moore and translated by CCO students with help from their grandparents (Arabic) and at-home pastors (Swahili).
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T H E C C O AT 5 0 : THE YEAR OF JUBILEE — The stories in this magazine demonstrate the power of the Holy Spirit to transform lives. They demonstrate how God’s plans are not our plans, but are infinitely more. These stories reflect God’s faithfulness over 50 years of ministry to college students, and they bear witness to God’s multiethnic Kingdom here and now. Even in a year when many students were not on campus and attended a virtual Jubilee conference, we catch a glimpse of what is described in Revelation 7—the “great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb,” crying out that “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.”
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On March 23, 2021, we celebrated the CCO’s 50th birthday. Fifty years means something particular in Biblical terms—it is the year of Jubilee. “Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you…” (Leviticus 25:10). The year of Jubilee in the Bible, as far as we can tell, was never observed by the nation of Israel. To do so, God’s people would not have planted crops for two years, and would have forgiven all debts, freed prisoners, released slaves, and returned land to the original owners. Much like the Israelites, we strive to live into the fullness of God’s Kingdom, but we have not lived fully into the Jubilee vision that we proclaim. For example, it is undeniable that the CCO staff, leaders, and board do not currently reflect the diversity of students whom we seek to reach with the Good News of Jesus Christ. We are committed to living into the fullness of the Gospel— especially in the midst of a global pandemic, racial and social unrest, tragedy and grief. And we long for the day when we will all stand before the throne of the Lamb and cry, “Salvation belongs to our God!” Fifty years sounds like a long time ago and also feels like yesterday. Jesus was transforming college students to transform the world in 1971, and he continues to do so in 2021. Will you join us in celebrating five decades of God’s faithfulness? Thank you for partnering with us in this ministry and for commemorating this Jubilee year with us.
Daniel J. Dupee Interim CEO, CCO
WA N T M O R E ? Explore stories of transformation through the generations (and share your own!) at 50th.ccojubilee.org
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