Campus Outreach San Diego exists to change the world starting with the college campus
Campus Outreach San Diego exists to build Christ-centered leaders on the college campus through the local Church for the city of San Diego and the West Coast. We believe the college years are both crucial and strategic. Crucial in that during these years, students are asking questions about their identity, their purpose and the world. Strategic in that the campus is a launching pad into every arena of public life: medicine, family, the business sector and non-profit sectors and beyond. By spending intentional relational time getting to know students and meeting them where they are, we seek to help them explore the person of Jesus and the life and trajectory-changing truths of Christianity.
Our Mission
Leaders are not born, they are made. The college campus attracts people from across racial, economic and cultural lines. These next generation leaders are malleable and shape-able. In a sense, they are like wet cement. By bringing together the truths of the gospel with leadership development in the context of a compelling community, we seek to reach, equip and launch future leaders who will in turn do the same.
“College students today are a hungry group, full of passion, wisdom, hopes, energy, intelligence; a spiritual hunger with a spiritual aimlessness.”
Our Vision
Out of the 200,000 plus college students in San Diego, many end up making San Diego home after graduation (for obvious reasons). Our vision is to see the city of San Diego radically transformed by the gospel and its implications. By reaching generation after generation of college students who will become future politicians, lawyers, neighbors, business owners and social workers, we believe the city of San Diego will be radically renewed for and by Christ.
“There is no greater campus ministry than Campus Outreach. I appreciate everything that God is doing through CO. The reason I love Campus Outreach is they are committed to building leaders and laborers.
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Our Passion
We are compelled and animated in all that we do by one thing, or more specifically, one Person: Jesus Christ. Through His life, death and resurrection, Christ changed the fabric of all human history by opening a way back to God for fallen mankind. As those who have been marked and transformed by the gospel, we long to see the same passion take the primary place in the hearts of the next generation. Whether we are preparing the land, planting, watering or pruning, we know that God alone causes growth!
“While catalyzing my relationship with God, CO helped me understand that the Gospel story is also my own, in being a flawed child of God who responds to Jesus’ with joy and obedience in work and relationships.”
Our Values
We hold these dear. We define a Christ-Centered leader as one who is changed by the Gospel, committed to grow in community, and compelled to go and multiply. As we seek to multiply "humans beings" and not "human doings", we are committed to keeping healthy rhythms of sabbath rest and work; going together as a team valuing we before me, developing leaders having a plan to see lost students become laborers , and sending them out as future world changers through our mobilization tracks into local churches in the city and throughout the world.
Our staff members raise their own financial support in order to free them to spend the maximum time on campus with next generation leaders. By giving towards staff support or the larger movement, you can be certain that your contribution will catalyze Christ-centered leaders who will change the campus and the city
