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Identity

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• We are InterVarsity's national office.
• We are a community of staff who live and work in
  dependence on God.
• We build, lead and sustain the ministry and
  infrastructure needed to support our mission on
  college and university campuses nationwide.

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NSC Values

• Service and Leadership  We provide support and
  direction for people and the organization, as
  passionate stewards of InterVarsity's Purpose.
• Dignity We treat others as people created in the
  image of God, valuing one another's contribution,
  role, calling and gifting.
• People Development We help one another grow
  intellectually, spiritually and professionally.
• Excellence We strive for high quality,
  effectiveness, and accountability in our work and
  relationships.
• Collaboration We partner as individuals and
  teams with diverse skills, backgrounds, and
  perspectives to enhance fulfillment of our common
  goals.

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Service and Leadership  We provide support and
direction for people and the organization, as
passionate stewards of InterVarsity's Purpose.

• Service 1. to provide (someone) with something
  that is needed or wanted.
• 2. to do the work that is needed to keep in
  good condition.
• Believers perform various functions (service)
  in accordance with the gifts each one has
  received from God.
• There are different kinds of gifts, but the same
  Spirit distributes them. There are different
  kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are
  different kinds of working, but in all of the and
  in everyone it is the same God at work..
• I Corinthians 124-6
• so that

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Service and Leadership  We provide support and
direction for people and the organization, as
passionate stewards of InterVarsity's Purpose.

• the body of Christ may be built up until we all
  reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of
  the Son of God and become mature, attaining to
  the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
• Ephesians 412b-13
• Serviceuse of the gifts given by God, done for
  other people to build up the body of Christ, as
  an act of love.
• Greater love has no one than this to lay down
  ones life for ones friends.
• John 1513
• We are invited into the life of Christ by
  imitating Christ.

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Service and Leadership  We provide support and
direction for people and the organization, as
passionate stewards of InterVarsity's Purpose.

• Take a minute
• What image comes to mind when you think of
  service?
• Allow the Lord to speak to you.

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Service and Leadership  We provide support and
direction for people and the organization, as
passionate stewards of InterVarsity's Purpose.

• My image

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Service and Leadership  We provide support and
direction for people and the organization, as
passionate stewards of InterVarsity's Purpose.

• Leadership
• The act or instance of guiding someone or
  something along a way
• To direct on a course or in a direction.
• Religious Leadership
• Old Testament
• Priest teaching the Law
• Prophets acts as a liaison between God and
  people, bringing judgment, encouragement,
  exhortation and visions of future restoration.
• Wise men- counselor

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Service and Leadership  We provide support and
direction for people and the organization, as
passionate stewards of InterVarsity's Purpose.

• Religious Leadership
• New Testament
• Sent ones messengers, a witness to God and
  the gospel, chosen by God
• Servants wash one anothers feet
• Collegiality partner fellow worker
• Spiritual leaders some attributes
• seek Gods will
• teach or communicate it (equip, guide)
• lead others to imitate Christ (service, love)
• are humble in relationship with God, and before
  those they lead

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Service and Leadership  We provide support and
direction for people and the organization, as
passionate stewards of InterVarsity's Purpose.

• Luke 2226
• the greatest among you should be like the
  youngest, and the one who rules like the one who
  serves

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Service and Leadership  We provide support and
direction for people and the organization, as
passionate stewards of InterVarsity's Purpose.

• Take a minute
• What image comes to mind when you think of
  leadership?
• Allow the Lord to speak to you.

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Service and Leadership  We provide support and
direction for people and the organization, as
passionate stewards of InterVarsity's Purpose.

• My image
• I request your cooperation and patience.

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Service and Leadership  We provide support and
direction for people and the organization, as
passionate stewards of InterVarsity's Purpose.

• We (carefulthey, my, etc.)
• Provide to make (something) available to supply
  (something that is wanted or needed) to give
  something wanted or needed to (someone or
  something)
• provide support and direction (service and
  leadership)
• for people and the organization

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Service and Leadership  We provide support and
direction for people and the organization, as
passionate stewards of InterVarsity's Purpose.

• Organization a company, business, club, etc.,
  that is formed for a particular purpose.

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Service and Leadership  We provide support and
direction for people and the organization, as
passionate stewards of InterVarsity's Purpose.

• Passionate having, showing, or expressing strong
  emotions or beliefs
• Steward a person whose job it is to manage the
  land and property of another

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Service and Leadership  We provide support and
direction for people and the organization, as
passionate stewards of InterVarsity's Purpose.
Take a minute What image comes to mind when
you think of being a steward. Is there
anything you are holding on to like an owner,
rather than a steward? Allow the Lord to speak
to you.
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Provide to make (something) available to supply
(something that is wanted or needed) to give
something wanted or needed to (someone or
something)

• My image

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Service and Leadership  We provide support and
direction for people and the organization, as
passionate stewards of InterVarsity's Purpose.

• In response to God's love, grace, and truth
• The Purpose of InterVarsity Christian
  Fellowship/USAis to establish and advanceat
  colleges and universitieswitnessing communities
  of students and facultywho follow Jesus as
  Savior and Lordgrowing in love for God,God's
  Word,God's people of every ethnicity and
  cultureand God's purposes in the world.

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Service and Leadership  We provide support and
direction for people and the organization, as
passionate stewards of InterVarsity's Purpose.
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Service and Leadership  We provide support and
direction for people and the organization, as
passionate stewards of InterVarsity's Purpose.