Story
Campus Ministry Network was established in 1986 in Wichita, Kansas as a local ministry in response to the emerging student-led Campus Bible Group movement that began in late 1985. Before 1985 there were no student-led Campus Bible Groups. The 1984 Equal Access Law made student-led, student-initiated Campus Bible Groups legal. One Wichita student started the first student-led Campus Bible Group at Southeast High School in the Fall of 1985. She challenged other students through a small student conference and by the end of that year there were student-led Campus Bible Groups on eight local high schools. Now Campus Groups exist in both Middle Schools and High Schools in the Wichita and greater area.
Campus Ministry Network was founded to equip, encourage and train these student leaders. I now support over 30 Campus Bible Groups on 27 area campuses. I visit these Campus Groups on a regular basis to see how I can best equip and encourage them.
Campus Ministry Network provides training at the beginning of the school year for student leaders called EQUIP-LAUNCH. CMN also hosts a mid-year training called EQUIP-RETRAIN to keep student leaders on mission. CMN equips students to lead their peers in prayer at the annual See You At The Pole at area campus flagpoles each September. That same evening CMN hosts See You AFTER The Pole event where area youth from our community gather together for a time of Praise, Student Testimony and Prayer.
Campus Ministry Network partners with area youth pastors by hosting Youth Pastor Lunches. At these gatherings youth pastors are encouraged to help their students become “mission-minded” about their campus. Youth pastors are given the opportunity to become a campus coach for a specific campus. Just like a sports coach they will equip and encourage students and watch on the sidelines as students lead their Campus Groups.
Vision
We believe the Christian MS & HS student is the missionary and their campus is the mission field.
Mission
Partnering with area youth pastors to equip and encourage MS & HS student-led Campus Bible & Prayer Groups.
We Believe
We believe that the Bible is inspired by God and that we can find guidance, comfort and authority in its teaching.
We hold that the Nicene and Apostles’ Creeds are faithful and succinct reflections of the basic truths of Scripture and we join with believers throughout the generations in professing these statements about God.
The Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come again to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. AMEN.
The Nicene Creed
We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and was made man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven. and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified.
He has spoken through the Prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.