How to Create a Justice Pilgrimage for your Campus
Students from all spiritual backgrounds want to understand the real stories behind their campuses. Use this guide to create a Justice Pilgrimage that will help students learn about their campus history, see how Jesus brings healing and justice to people and to places, and learn what it means to be part of an InterVarsity community.
Why Create a Justice Pilgrimage for Your Campus?
Students want to understand the real stories behind their campuses. On a Justice Pilgrimage, we can help students see how Jesus brings healing and justice to people and to places.
Students who already want to live justly will experience Jesus’ perspective of their campus, which is filled with both beautiful and ugly moments in its history. Other students will get a glimpse at InterVarsity’s holistic view of the gospel. They will learn about their campus history and grow their discipleship with Jesus using spiritual exercises.
A Justice Pilgrimage is a great first step to help Christians and non-Christians alike experience God on campus and learn what it means to be a part of your InterVarsity community.
In this resource you will find:
- A step-by-step guide that you can use to create a justice pilgrimage unique to your campus context.
- An real-life example from College of William and Mary in Virginia
- Spiritual exercises that you can also lead your group in during the Pilgrimage
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About the authors
Kate Denson has been on staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship since 2007. She has served as campus staff at Georgetown and George Washington Universities in Washington DC and has directed the Washington DC Justice Program since 2010. She has been a licensed DC tour guide since 2013 and developed her own small business “Justice Walks DC” where she leads walking tours for local schools, churches, and workplaces that experientially engage current and history justice realities. She has a masters from Fuller Seminary.
Angelo Blancaflor serves as the Asian American Ministries assistant director. Pursuing the calling to honor and reach Asian American communities on campus, Angelo has a focus on witness and evangelism as a trainer, coach, and resource creator. He has helped direct coaching rooms at Urbana and Staff Conference, and coaches conferences around the movement to become more friendly for non-Christians. Most recently, he helped to create the Refresh campaign, a Proxe station that centers a Native American re-telling of the gospel; and the “Two Ates (sisters)” Pocket Proxe which imagines the story Jesus, Mary, and Martha in the context of a Pilipino family.He has served on staff for 10 years and lives in Chicago with his wife, Alison, and their two cats, Clide and Sly.