2023 Young Adult and Campus Ministry Grant Recipient - Campus Ministry for the Episcopal Church in Colorado

Campus Ministry for the Episcopal Church in Colorado                                      $6840
Diocese of Colorado

The Finals Care Package for College Students Program is a new ministry that will pour love into our young people without expecting anything in return. Our young people away at college will receive care packages during both fall and spring finals. These packages will contain fun and useful items, but the true gift is the emotional and spiritual support that knowing someone cares enough about you to send you something brings. These packages will be filled and sent by the individual churches in Colorado. Our churches will invest their time and support, and the Finals Care Package Program will match that support by subsidizing the shipping cost of each package. We hope to remind our churches that any church can participate in college ministry; you don’t have to live right by a college campus. After all, the vast majority of churches are connected to students, be it through familial ties, friendship, or graduated youth group members. Our young people are worthy of God’s love and community support, even if they can’t reciprocate, even if they never enter the church or a campus ministry. Congregations will take ownership of the program, which will help grow relationships and raise awareness for an often-neglected demographic in the wider church.