ABOUT NYCUP

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InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is a ministry that serves students and          faculty at colleges and universities across the United States and around the world. InterVarsity chapters are groups of students that enjoy fun and friendship together and help each other grow in their love for God and their knowledge of Jesus Christ. We place high value on study of the Bible, worship, prayer, missions, racial reconciliation and social justice.a

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The New York City Urban Project, a ministry of InterVarsity, aims to change the culture of giving and volunteering on college campuses from one of constant consumption to consistent compassion compelled and sustained by the love of God. By providing concrete on ramps for students and university communities to engage in the struggles of the impoverished and oppressed, we will not only be hearers of the Word but doers also while seeking justice, loving mercy and walking humbly after God. For James 1:27a says this Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress.

 

 

About NYCUP

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The New York City Urban Project consists of short term (one week) spring break initiatives called "plunges" and one Summer Internship Program (6-8 weeks)  where students come together to live in intentional community while learning about the Gospel's answer to some of life's hardest questions concerning race, gender, faith, politics, poverty and justice. The spring break plunge is a way for students to have their eyes opened to issues of injustice for the first time and the summer project gives them a way to live out the justice of the gospel in an underserved community where concrete needs can be met. The summer project is a place to confront injustice head on and ask what God wants us to do about it in a safe space that allows us all to ask questions, to learn and grow. Students face the world around them all while living in a community where they can grow in the knowledge of putting their faith into action. Students work during the day and at night return to their housemates and community members to have Bible studies, prayer walks and community dinners. Students leave changed with a mind to change the world. Organizational partners include World Vision US-Programs, Restore NYC, New York Faith and Justice, the Food Bank of New York, Nomi Network among others allowing them to organize and operate community feedings for the homeless, implement tutoring programs for youth, aid in the rehabilitationof sex-trafficked women and advocate and raise funds for former child soldiers.  

Students are recruited from the hundreds of participants engaged by ongoing service opportunities available to more than 75 college/universities in New York and New Jersey that include "Feed 5000" a community feeding project to aid the homeless in New York City, tutoring and mentoring programs, and events and workshops that enable ordinary citizens to fight human trafficking and modern-day slavery. 
By creating a model of consistent engagement students become leaders and learn how to make seeking justice, loving mercy, and walking with God a regular partof their lives. 

 

-Jonathan Walton, New York City Urban Project Director

 

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