Since graduating with my PhD in June of 2019, I have been discerning my next steps. As I prayed, considered my interests and experience, and discussed with others, I felt a clear calling to ministry in Cincinnati and am excited to accept an invitation to join the staff of InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries in Cincinnati.
Many things compete for the loyalty and formation of students on campus, and students and faculty are deeply formed by the rationalities of their disciplines. At the same time, faculty and students have a great amount of influence through their teaching and research, and as they go on to become leaders in society. InterVarsity is the only organization with a focused ministry dedicated to the unique needs and potential of graduate students and faculty. They provide spiritual formation and pastoral care on campus, and have a critical focus on helping students and faculty integrate their faith, work and practice. I’m particularly excited about this focus on helping integrate faith with research and study; this is an important topic in the broader church, a major need expressed on campus, something I know would have been helpful for me as a student, and was also a significant focus of my PhD research.
I will be joining the team in Greater Cincinnati with a focus on graduate students at the University of Cincinnati. I’m excited to join in what God is doing on campus, and to work with the existing students to create new groups, programming and events to prayerfully grow and develop the ministry at UC. I’ll also be working with the Cincinnati team to plant graduate & faculty programs on other campuses in the Greater Cincinnati area.
I’d love to hear from you if you want to learn more about this ministry, or if you or someone you know are a grad student or member of faculty at a university in Cincinnati. If you want to financially support me, you can do so here. You can also sign up for email updates about the ministry here.
UC Ministry Goals:
“So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! And all this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; that is in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us.”
2 Cor 5:17-20
- Reconciliation between ourselves and God–life and work rooted in Christ
- Reconciliation among people, systems and structures–a peacemaking presence on campus
- Reconciliation between faith, study, and practice–participating in God’s work of making all things new in our daily contexts
Photo Credit: Rob Amend
Emily Beth Hill 
What a great undertaking. Anyone who knows you realizes you are very smart. I feel you are also very wise. It is apparent that God is leading you and you are following Him. God bless you.