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Apportionments Campus Ministries

OKUMC Campus Ministry Web site

In the fall, some students who have been nurtured in the faith by your church family will leave for college. That certainly conjures up different im­ages for different people. For some students there is anxiety, while others feel an eagerness to taste freedom. Some parents will feel confident and happy about this next step in the maturing of their child, while others will approach this time with sad­ness and anxiety.

Indeed, the col­lege years are criti­cal in the lives of many persons. For many this is the time when career choices are tested and final­ized, a life mate is chosen, and lifetime friendships are formed. The ministry and witness of the church need to be especially present as these major life decisions are III process.

Your church is there, reaching out to students-through the campus ministries apportionment. The apportionment helps to support ministry to students on 16 college and university campuses in Oklahoma. There are approximately 108,525 students in these schools. (Oklahoma City Univer­sity is not included in this group because its ministry with students receives support through the OCU apportionment.) This work is not undertaken alone by the campus ministers. There is a local church that works in partnership with each of the campus ministries in order to provide a broader church family for students.

Each of the campus ministries requires additional funding in order to support an active and appealing program. Many churches and individuals make contributions in addition to the local church's apportionment.

Money is not the only need of these ministries. They need church people to get involved in their programs, and they need contact information to enable them to reach the students who have been in our churches and who are now entrusted to the care of campus ministry.