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Every year, InterVarsity trains thousands of college students from every background to lead engaging and transformational Bible studies. We’ve been at it for a long time, and over the years we’ve discovered a tremendous secret that makes it possible for someone with even limited training to lead powerful Bible studies.

We created this site to happily share what we’ve learned with anyone who’s been called to lead others into God’s Word. If you’re a current college student, we hope you’ll consider joining our movement! If you’re an InterVarsity alumnus, we hope this site will help you share what you learned on campus with your church.

This resource kit is for chapters that have experienced different kinds of hardship and are looking to grow in resilience and restart healthy ministry rhythms.

Bobby Gross served for 14 years as the Vice President and National Director of Graduate & Faculty Ministries for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. In his career with InterVarsity, Bobby has served as an InterVarsity chaplain at the University of Florida; launched campus ministry in South Florida; given leadership as the Regional Director for New York/New Jersey; and served as a National Field Director overseeing a cluster of four undergraduate regions. In his final (49th) year on staff, he now works part-time as a Planned Giving Officer. 

He is author of Living the Christian Year: Time to Inhabit the Story of God (IVP) He has contributed chapters to three other books, including Faith on the Edge (IVP) and Signs of Hope in the City (Judson). He has served on the board of Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA). Bobby enjoys reading widely, writing poetry, and collecting contemporary art on religious themes. He lives in Atlanta with his wife Charlene.

Nicholas Wolterstorff received his BA from Calvin College in 1953 and his PhD in philosophy from Harvard University in 1956. Before taking the position of Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology, he taught for thirty years at his alma mater, Calvin College.

After concentrating on metaphysics at the beginning of his career, he spent a good many years working primarily on aesthetics and philosophy of art. In more recent years, he has been concentrating on epistemology (e.g., Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistomology, Cambridge U. Press, 2004), philosophy of religion (e.g., Inquiring about God, Cambridge U. Press, 2010; Practices of Belief, Cambridge U. Press, 2010), and political philosophy (e.g., The Mighty and the Almighty: An Essay in Political Theology, Cambridge U. Press, 2012). Dr. Wolterstorff regularly teaches lecture courses in philosophy of religion and aesthetics, and seminars in epistemology, hermeneutics, and philosophy of religion.

Sanford (Sandy) Shugart, PhD, blends two careers, one as president of Valencia College (with 60,000 students and winner of the prestigious Aspen Prize as the nation’s best community college in 2011), another as a poet and singer/songwriter. He says they nourish each other, his “day job” giving him the material that is turned into ballads and folk-rock lyrics of life, work, growing, and growing old. He is the author of Leadership in the Crucible of Work: Discovering the Interior Life of an Authentic Leader.