His informal survey of UTC students earlier this year, said Corey Garrett, was a mandate for change.
While his nonscientific survey indicated 84 percent of students called themselves Christians, 91 percent never saw other students praying together, 91 percent didn’t minister daily to people off campus and 88 percent didn’t see students regularly sharing the Gospel with other students.
“The student survey gave me an overwhelming realization of what they were getting and what they weren’t getting,” Garrett said. “What they weren’t getting … was discipleship.”
His desire, he said, is that students would understand the difference between being “fans of Christ” and “leaders for Christ.”
With that in mind, Garrett began Campus Christian Ministries, a nonprofit organization that will offer students daily, weekly and monthly discipleship.