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Annual Impact Report
2025
From the Campus. For the Kingdom.
Annual Impact Report
From the Campus. For the Kingdom.
Dear Friends and Partners,
In 2025, we watched God move in powerful and deeply personal ways across college campuses. Students encountered Jesus, stepped into calling, and began living out their faith with courage and clarity in places that desperately need hope.
This did not happen by accident. God worked through faithful partners like you. Your prayers and generosity helped make every story in this report possible. Because of you, students are hearing the gospel, finding spiritual community, and stepping into lives shaped by Christ.
This year, we sensed God inviting us into deeper faith. After seasons of strengthening foundations and preparing for what was ahead, we stepped forward trusting God to bring growth. Again and again, we saw Him meet us there.
An image that stays with us comes from Elijah. After persistent prayer through a long season of waiting, he saw a small cloud rising on the horizon. Small, but unmistakable. A signal that rain was coming. That is how this year felt. Quiet, clear signs that God is moving and preparing to bring spiritual renewal across campuses and churches.
We believe the next great movement of disciple making in our nation will rise, in part, from today's college campuses.
Together, we are seeing God move from the campus for the Kingdom.
Thank you for praying. Thank you for giving. Thank you for standing in this mission with us.
With deep gratitude and hope,
Jason Bennett
Executive Director, Collegiate Church Network
Why Campus Ministry Matters Now
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College students today are navigating unprecedented pressure. Questions of identity, belonging, purpose, and truth are not theoretical. They are deeply personal and often unresolved. Anxiety and loneliness continue to rise. Skepticism toward institutions, including the Church, is common. At the same time, many students are quietly searching for meaning, stability, and hope.
This moment is not just challenging. It is deeply strategic.
College campuses remain one of the most influential mission fields in the world. They shape future leaders in education, healthcare, business, technology, government, and the Church. What happens in these years often shapes the direction of an entire lifetime.
Students are forming worldviews. They are deciding who they trust, what they believe, and who they want to become. When the gospel is present in this season, it changes trajectories for generations.
Campus ministry matters now more than ever. Not simply because of cultural pressure, but because of spiritual opportunity. God is drawing students to Himself, and the local church remains His primary vehicle for reaching and discipling them.
Collegiate Church Network exists to help churches step into that opportunity with clarity, courage, and collaboration. We believe the campus is not just a mission field. It is a launch point for lifelong discipleship, leadership, and Kingdom influence.
Collegiate Church Network exists to help churches reach college students, make disciples, develop leaders, and plant multiplying churches.
We believe the local church is God's primary strategy for reaching the next generation. When churches work together, they can reach campuses more effectively, sustain ministry long term, and develop leaders who are rooted in both spiritual formation and community.
Collegiate is a network of churches partnering together to engage campuses with the gospel. We share resources, training, coaching, and strategic support so that churches can reach students and develop leaders in ways that are sustainable and reproducible.
Our vision is long term. Students who are discipled today become church leaders, missionaries, parents, professionals, and culture shapers tomorrow. The investment made during the college years often multiplies across decades of influence.
Helping churches engage college campuses with the gospel
Making disciples rooted in spiritual formation and community
Preparing students for lifelong Kingdom impact
“The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.”
Matthew 9:37–38
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Across our network this year, we have seen meaningful spiritual traction — not just increased ministry activity.
Our leadership cohorts strengthened leaders across churches and campuses, building shared vision, resilience, and long-term ministry health. In our summer leadership training environments, students did more than learn leadership principles. They stepped into gospel conversations, initiated prayer with peers, and took ownership of spiritual environments around them.
We observed a growing hunger for Scripture, authentic worship, and meaningful opportunities to serve and lead. Increasingly, students are showing up spiritually curious and open. Many are not starting by debating the existence of God. They are starting with a desire to understand who He is.
Participation in retreats, spring break trips, and mission experiences increased across many of our churches. These environments continue to be places where students encounter Jesus in deeply personal and life-changing ways.
Across our churches, renewed clarity around mission and vision is strengthening staff teams and fueling student leadership on campuses.
Taken together, these are signs of growing spiritual openness, stronger leadership pipelines, and increasing missional engagement across our network.
The stories that follow give a glimpse of what this looks like in individual lives.
Behind every number in this report is a person whose life has been changed by the gospel. These stories are a glimpse into what God is doing across our campuses through local churches, faithful leaders, and students who are saying yes to Jesus.
During the past year, one college senior who had spent most of his college experience immersed in the typical party lifestyle began to feel a growing sense of emptiness and isolation. Despite being surrounded by people, he found himself increasingly aware that something in his life needed to change.
After moving into an apartment complex near Fellowship Church, he felt prompted to attend a Sunday service. Through that first visit, he connected with students and leaders who welcomed him into community and began walking with him spiritually. Over time, he heard the gospel clearly and made the decision to place his faith in Christ. That summer, he was baptized and began building a new foundation of faith, identity, and community.
Since then, he has become deeply connected in discipleship and continues to grow in his faith. He now describes his life differently. Where he once felt deeply alone, he now lives with the confidence that he is known, loved, and never alone because of Christ.
Stories like this remind us why campus ministry matters. Every year, students searching for meaning encounter Jesus through the local church and begin lives of faith that shape their future, their communities, and generations to come.
Noelle, a junior at the University of Cincinnati, reached out to Isadora, a freshman, after she filled out a connection card at church and marked that she was “curious” about faith and spirituality. Unsure of what to expect, Noelle invited her to meet and talk about her spiritual journey. What followed became a powerful example of student-to-student discipleship.
Isadora had grown up around church but was unsure what she personally believed. She had never spoken openly about her doubts and feared judgment from people in her life. Through honest conversations, shared testimony, and consistent time together, Isadora began exploring faith in a safe and supportive environment. Over the following weeks, she became deeply connected in a small group, built meaningful friendships, and began experiencing a growing desire to know Jesus personally.
In time, Isadora made the decision to follow Christ and be baptized. For Noelle, it was a powerful reminder that God is continually pursuing students long before they arrive on campus.
This reflects a growing reality across our campuses: disciples making disciples and students stepping into lifelong Kingdom impact.
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When Fig first arrived at Western Michigan University, she wanted nothing to do with God or church. She was battling deep anxiety and depression and had reached a point of deep personal hopelessness. Through a classmate who mentioned serving on the worship team at H2O Church, she decided to visit a Sunday service. She came intending to leave early, but unexpected kindness from members of the church community drew her and made her want to return.
Over the next few weeks, Fig experienced something she had never encountered before. Through relationships, teaching, and a moment of unexpected care and prayer from someone she had just met, she began to wrestle with the possibility that God saw her, delighted in her, and loved her even in her lowest moment. Within weeks, she placed her faith in Christ.
Today, Fig describes her story simply: “Jesus saved my life.” While she continues to walk through mental health challenges, she now lives with hope rooted in Christ instead of despair. She is helping lead a group and investing in others who are exploring faith and searching for purpose. This past fall, she helped lead another student to faith in Christ — a powerful reminder of how God continues to multiply transformed lives.
Her story is one of rescue, restoration, and the transforming love of Jesus working through a local church on campus.
Leadership Training (LT) is one of the most significant ways Collegiate develops future church leaders, planters, and disciple makers. Each summer, students step into an immersive experience focused on spiritual formation, leadership growth, and real-life gospel engagement.
What makes LT unique is not only what students learn, but how they live. Across North America, many short-term ministry experiences struggle to produce lasting missional growth. LT has consistently been different. Students grow in confidence sharing their faith, build meaningful relationships, and trust God to work through everyday conversations.
In 2025, each Leadership Training participant, on average, built meaningful relationships with five people who did not know Jesus, shared the gospel or their faith story nine times, and personally saw two people place their faith in Christ during the program.
Many of our Collegiate pastors, senior staff, and ministry leaders first experienced their calling through LT. When leaders are formed deeply, the impact multiplies far beyond a single summer and into churches, campuses, and communities for years to come.
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A New Life Church graduate from the University of Michigan is one example of the lifelong impact of discipleship that often begins during the college years. After graduating, he continued pursuing his calling through theological training and is currently completing seminary as he prepares for future global ministry.
Through prayer, training, and continued discernment, he is preparing to serve in Bible translation work, with hopes of serving overseas in regions of Southeast Asia. His desire is to help bring Scripture to communities that have limited or no access to God's Word in their heart language.
This is the long-term vision of campus ministry lived out: disciples formed on campus who carry the gospel into communities, churches, and nations for generations.
While each story is unique, together they reflect a broader movement God is building across our campuses.
We recognize that every dollar given represents trust. We are deeply grateful for your generosity and take seriously the responsibility to steward these resources with integrity, transparency, and Kingdom focus.
To ensure strong financial accountability, Collegiate Church Network partners with Reliant Mission and the National Christian Foundation, both of which are ECFA accredited. These partnerships provide trusted gift processing, oversight, and financial accountability for every contribution entrusted to this work.
Supporting churches as they reach campuses, disciple students, and strengthen local ministry presence.
Investing in training environments, coaching, and formation experiences that prepare students and campus missionaries for long-term Kingdom impact.
Providing the infrastructure, coordination, and systems that allow churches and leaders to focus fully on ministry and discipleship.
Every gift helps create environments where students encounter Jesus, grow in faith, and step into lives of leadership and service. We view stewardship not simply as financial management, but as faithfully resourcing the work God is doing through His Church.
Collegiate Church Network exists because churches and ministry partners choose to labor together for the sake of the next generation.
Where We Sense God Leading
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As we look ahead, we sense God continuing to open doors for deeper and broader Kingdom impact through the local church on college campuses.
Our conviction remains clear: the local church is God's primary strategy for reaching the next generation, and college campuses remain one of the most strategic mission fields in the world.
We see growing opportunities to expand to new campuses where churches are ready to step into mission with clarity, courage, and long-term commitment. We believe expansion must always be paired with depth — ensuring churches are equipped to disciple students faithfully and serve their campuses for generations.
We are also strengthening leadership development pathways that help students, staff, and future church planters step into lifelong Kingdom influence. We are committed to forming leaders deeply, not just quickly.
At the same time, we see increasing opportunities to engage alumni who are carrying their faith and leadership into churches, workplaces, cities, and nations. The long-term impact of campus ministry is measured not only in college years, but in decades of faithful influence that follow.
We are also investing in the long-term sustainability of this network by strengthening churches, developing leaders, and building the relational and operational capacity needed to serve campuses faithfully for years to come.
We believe God is positioning this network to serve a growing number of campuses, churches, and leaders in the years ahead. We move forward with humility and confidence, trusting Him to guide each step as we continue serving churches and reaching students from the campus for the Kingdom.
This mission has always moved forward through people who believe the next generation is worth reaching and worth investing in.
Pray for open doors on campuses, for students seeking truth and purpose, and for churches and leaders faithfully serving in complex ministry environments.
Your generosity helps strengthen churches, develop leaders, and expand gospel presence on college campuses across the nation.
Stay engaged through updates, gatherings, and ongoing relationships with our team. We are always grateful to share stories and vision.
We are deeply grateful for you.
Thank you for praying. Thank you for giving. Thank you for believing that the next generation is worth reaching and worth investing in. Because of your partnership, students are encountering Jesus, leaders are being developed, and churches are being strengthened to serve campuses with faith and clarity.
This mission has always been bigger than any one church, leader, or generation. It is the ongoing work of God through His Church, and we are honored to play a small part in it alongside you.
As we look ahead, we do so with humility and expectation. We believe God is continuing to open doors on college campuses. We believe He is raising up leaders who will serve His Church and His mission for decades to come. And we believe the work happening today will shape the future of churches, communities, and nations.
Together, we are witnessing God move from the campus for the Kingdom.
Thank you for walking with us in this mission. We are grateful for your partnership, your prayers, and your trust as we step into the next season of what God is doing.
With deep gratitude for what God has done and faith for what He will do,
Jason Bennett
Executive Director, Collegiate Church Network