celebrating years of the jubilee conference

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CELEBRATING
YEARS OF THE JUBILEE CONFERENCE
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There is no higher priority
for the church today than to
ground our young people in
40 years of Jubilee
When the first Jubilee conference took place in downtown Pittsburgh in 1977, hundreds
of college students crowded into the standing-room-only ballroom of the William Penn
Hotel to hear the freeing message of the Gospel—and to be inspired to do away with
the idea that the Christian faith is a Sunday-only proposition.
Every February since then, generations of college students have gathered in Pittsburgh
to be equipped to serve Jesus Christ with their entire lives. For 40 years, we’ve invited
more than 70,000 college students to Pittsburgh to talk, learn, think, and dream about
the public implications of their personal transformation.
Jubilee is a weekend-long snapshot of what CCO ministry is all about, as our staff
people invest in the lives of students on college and university campuses. The focus of
the conference has always been about putting legs on the Gospel—helping students
recognize that the God they worship is intimately involved in every aspect of their lives,
seven days a week, 24 hours a day.
Jubilee is about equipping students to serve Jesus Christ passionately in their vocational
lives, in their communities, families, and churches. By God’s grace, that’s exactly what’s
happening.
A JubileeTimeline:
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1970
1971 1973
Realizing that many
college students are
floundering in their
faith, a group of
parents, pastors, and
youth leaders from
western Pennsylvania
churches join together to
sponsor the Revolution +
One conference.
The CCO (Coalition
for Christian Outreach)
is incorporated in
Pittsburgh on March
23, 1971 as an interdenominational college
ministry. The CCO’s
primary mission is to
bring various ministries
together with a unified
vision to evangelize and
disciple college students
in cooperation with
local churches.
The Chatham Center
Weekend, a forerunner
of Jubilee, is sponsored
by the CCO and area
ministries.
1977
1978 2008
The CCO sponsors the
first Jubilee conference
at the William Penn
Hotel in downtown
Pittsburgh. Inviting
Christian leaders and
practitioners from a
variety of fields to
speak, Jubilee gives
students tools to begin
to integrate their
Christian faith into
every area of their lives.
Jubilee moves to the
Pittsburgh Hilton
Hotel, where it remains
for 30 years.
Jubilee moves from the
Pittsburgh Hilton to
the David L. Lawrence
Convention Center
to accommodate the
growing number of
participants.
2016
Attracting nearly
3,500 people each year,
Jubilee is the largest,
longest consecutive
running conference in
Pittsburgh.
Vincent J. Burens
President & CEO
Coalition for Christian Outreach
solid doctrine and righteous
living. Cheap grace abounds
in the Christian church today,
but I’m praying God will raise
up a generation of strong,
tough-minded young people
to challenge the false values
of the culture.
From what I’ve seen in my
own experience speaking to
the CCO, that is exactly what
they are doing, teaching the
faith entrusted to the saints
once and for all. Doing this
is a huge contribution to the
work of the Kingdom.
The late Chuck Colson
founded Prison Fellowship
and The Colson Center for
Christian Worldview.
Mr. Colson was a keynote
speaker at Jubilee 2008.
The CCO calls college students to serve Jesus Christ with their entire lives.
Our ministry is distinct in three ways:
1. We develop students to be passionate leaders who serve Jesus Christ in
their studies, jobs, communities, and families.
2. We serve together with the church, inviting students into the lives of local
congregations.
3. We design each ministry to fit the needs of every campus we serve.
To learn more about us, please visit our website: www.ccojubilee.org
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There’s just nowhere else
you can go where you
can talk about justice
and beauty, architecture
and sports, medicine and
hip-hop in the way you
can at Jubilee, all soaked
in the good news of the
Gospel. I’ve loved Jubilee
for its energy, enthusiasm,
and incredible depth—the
world in all its beauty and
brokenness treated as
seriously as it deserves,
while not taking ourselves
too seriously to be able to
laugh and worship. Here’s
to forty more years of
transforming everything.
Andy Crouch is Executive
Editor of Christianity Today,
and author of Culture Making:
Recovering Our Creative
Calling and Playing God:
Redeeming the Gift of Power.
Andy was a Jubilee keynote
speaker in 2009 and 2014.
Why did the CCO establish the Jubilee
conference?
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HE CCO IS COMMITTED TO HELPING STUDENTS ON COLLEGE
and university campuses understand the message of the Kingdom of God in
all of its fullness. We boldly proclaim the salvation that is found only in Jesus
Christ, and we encourage students to know God and to serve God in every
area of their lives. We equip college students to participate and anticipate, as Jesus taught
his disciples to pray, “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”
The biblical idea of Jubilee has been around since God created the heavens and the earth.
Even before humanity’s response of independence and rebellion, God introduced the
concept of a sabbath—a jubilee—into the fabric of the created order. The sabbath was
established as a weekly reminder that the people of God must find their rest and peace in
God alone.
The sabbath year (every seventh year) was a similar, but more dramatic and demonstrative, reminder. God alone is responsible for life and its maintenance. The sabbath year
became more than a reminder; it was a demonstration of the justice and mercy of the
sovereign God of all creation.
The Year of Jubilee, as described in Leviticus 25, was to be the sabbath year of sabbath
years, to be held every fiftieth year. During this special year, God would provide for the
release of prisoners, a second chance for the disenfranchised, and hope for those who had
lost hope in relying on their own strength.
This is the message of Jubilee to college students—to those who will soon take their
places in positions of influence, both locally and globally. The message is this: We cannot be satisfied with business as usual. We strive to live out the principles embodied in
the year of Jubilee, because the great and forever year of Jubilee has begun with the life,
death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ.
So why did we create Jubilee?
Because we need a reminder and a sign. We need a reminder that this is God’s world and
that God is the source of our salvation and all that is good. We need a sign that God’s
Kingdom is here, even though at times it may not appear so, and that someday God will
bring the fullness of that Kingdom to the good creation. The workshops and addresses at
Jubilee point to the Kingdom mindset that Christian people ought to have at any time in
the history of the church.
Our hope and prayer is that this conference will be an encouragement to us,
that we might make a difference for the sake of the Kingdom for which we are
waiting, expectantly.
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A few prominent Jubilee speakers and artists
These Christian leaders represent only a few of the hundreds of professionals who
have come to Jubilee to model for students how to live out their faith in their
workplaces and communities.
The CCO is America’s bestkept college secret. You’re not
going to find students being
discipled this way anywhere
Chuck Colson
Founder of Prison
Fellowship and
The Colson
Center for
Christian
Worldview
John Perkins
Founder of Voice
of Calvary
Ministries and
the Christian
Community
Development
Association
Gary Haugen
President and
CEO of the
International
Justice Mission
Os Guinness
Author, social
critic, and a
Senior Fellow
of the EastWest
Institute
Gabe Lyons
Founder of Q
and author of
unChristian
and The Next
Christians
Tony Campolo
Founder and
President of
the Evangelical
Association for
the Promotion
of Education
John Stott
Author,
theologian, and
Christian leader
Andy Crouch
Executive Editor
of Christianity
Today and
author of Culture
Making and
Playing God
in the country. What they’re
doing needs to be regionally
multiplied across America.
The way they partner with
local churches is inspiring
and represents mature,
Biblical ecclesiology.
Donald Miller
Author of Blue
Like Jazz
Michael Gerson
Columnist,
former speechwriter for
President George
W. Bush
James K.A. Smith
Award-winning
author whose
books include
Who’s Afraid of
Postmodernism?
and Desiring the
Kingdom
Mark Hatfield
U.S. Senator
from Oregon and
author of Between
a Rock and a Hard
Place
Anthony Bradley
Associate Professor
of Theology and
Ethics at The
King’s College
David Kinnaman
President of the
Barna Group
and author of
unChristian and
You Lost Me
Jon Tyson
Lead Pastor of
Trinity Grace
Church in New
York City
Bob Goff
Founder of
Restore
International
and bestselling
author of Love
Does
Makoto
Fujimura
Artist and
founder of the
International
Arts Movement
Kelly Monroe
Kullberg
Author and
founder of
The Veritas
Forum
Kay Coles James
Vice President
for Policy, Family
Research Council
Dan Allender
Author and
founder of the
Seattle School
of Theology and
Psychology
Soong-Chan
Rah
Author of Many
Colors and
professor at
North Park
University
Amena Brown
Spoken word
poet and author
of Breaking Old
Rhythms: Answering the Call of a
Creative God
Carl Henry
Theologian,
author, and
first editor of
Christianity Today
C. Everett Koop
U.S. Surgeon
General from
1982 to 1989
Rufus Smith
Senior Pastor of
Hope Church
in Memphis,
Tennessee
Eric Metaxas
New York Times
bestselling author
of Bonhoeffer and
Miracles
Tom Skinner
Former Harlem
gang leader
turned evangelist,
professional
sports chaplain,
and author
Daniel
Sepulveda
Former punter
for the Pittsburgh
Steelers
Charlie Peacock
American singer,
songwriter,
pianist, record
producer, session
musician, and
author
Eric Mason
Pastor of
Epiphany Fellowship and author
of Manhood
Restored
Barbara
WilliamsSkinner
President of
the Skinner
Leadership
Institute
Steven Garber
Author of Fabric
of Faithfulness
and Visions of
Vocation, Principal
of The Washington
Institute
Leroy Barber
Global Executive
Director of Word
Made Flesh
Richard Mouw
President
Emeritus and
Professor of Faith
and Public Life,
Fuller Theological
Seminary
David Greusel
Architect
and author,
designer of the
award-winning
PNC Park
Saleem Ghubril
Executive Director
of The Pittsburgh
Promise
Peter K. Greer
President and
CEO of Hope
International
Bethany Jenkins
Director of
The Gospel
Coalition’s Every
Square Inch
Curt Thompson
Author of
Anatomy of
the Soul and The
Soul of Shame
Christena
Cleveland
Award-winning
author of
Disunity in
Christ
James Ward
Singer and
songwriter
Jena Lee
Nardella
Co-founder,
Blood:Water
Mission
The Lone
Bellow
American
musical group
from Brooklyn
Katherine Leary
Alsdorf
Founder and
Director Emeritus,
Redeemer Center
for Faith & Work
Nicole Baker
Fulgham
Founder and
President of
The Expectations
Project
Tony Dungy
NFL player,
coach, analyst,
and author
Sandra
McCracken
Singer and
songwriter
David H. Kim
Executive
Director, Pastor of
Faith & Work,
Redeemer
Presbyterian
Church
Dr. Anthony Bradley
is Associate Professor of
Theology and Ethics at The
King’s College. Dr. Bradley was
a Jubilee keynote speaker in
2013 and 2015.
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JUBILEE IMPACT: THERESA MILLER
VICE PRESIDENT, GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS FOR PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL, INC.
Truth has no spin zone
S
unday worship, choir,
youth group, and Sunday
school all brought the
Gospel to Theresa
Miller as she grew up in a tiny
eastern Pennsylvania town.
But at Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, Theresa’s faith
expanded when she read All of
Life Redeemed, a book written by
four former CCO staff members.
Then in 1984, the Gospel
exploded when she attended her
first Jubilee conference. There,
Theresa met the late Robert
Lavelle, founder of the former
Dwelling House Savings &
Loan, created to increase home
ownership among Pittsburgh’s
low-income residents.
“Bob’s astounding work
showed me what Paul meant
when he encouraged the
Colossians that ‘whatever you
do in word or deed, do all to
the glory of God the Father,’ ”
Theresa says. “Now, the word
‘whatever’ defines how I seek to
serve the Lord at work, at home,
and in my community.”
Bob Lavelle’s vision for
economic justice, transparency,
and truth informed Theresa’s
own heart to serve the Lord,
driven by truth, first as a
journalist and later as a public
relations executive at Prudential
Financial, Inc.
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“As a journalist, I uncovered
some very dark places while
reporting crime stories, and
as an editor, I coached young
writers to develop a sense of
fairness while dispelling the
myth of journalistic objectivity,”
Theresa says. “In public relations,
truth has no spin zone, and it
is the only product I can offer
clients, shareholders, and other
stakeholders.”
Y
ears later, Theresa
shared her Jubilee
experiences with her
husband, Terrence,
and the Millers decided to visit
Bob Lavelle in Pittsburgh’s
tough Hill District. When
Terrence asked why there were
no bars on the windows at
Dwelling House, Bob answered
that Jesus’ strength enabled him
to be vulnerable, demonstrating
trust to those he served. Terrence
asked how he should serve the
Lord. Bob’s response? “You know
what to do.”
So the Millers bought a
broken-down mansion in a
tough Easton, Pennsylvania
neighborhood. More than a
decade later, their neighborhood
is changing. The house has been
repainted, and it is surrounded
by an urban garden. Residents
who once lived in isolation have
become neighbors. Young men
have escaped gang life. The poor
have begun to feel empowered.
“Folks call what we do
‘ministry,’ ” Theresa says.
“We call it life, driven by a
transformed vision.”
—A 1985 graduate of Indiana
University of Pennsylvania,
Theresa Miller is now Vice President,
Global Communications for
Prudential Financial, Inc.
As a journalist, I
uncovered some very
dark places while
covering crime stories,
and as an editor, I
coached young writers
to develop a sense
of fairness while
dispelling the myth of
journalistic objectivity.
In public relations,
truth has no spin
zone, and it is the only
product I can offer
clients, shareholders,
and other stakeholders.
The late Robert R. Lavelle,
the man whose bank helped
thousands of Pittsburgh’s lowincome residents buy homes,
was a frequent Jubilee speaker.
There is simply nothing like
the Jubilee conference in the
United States. It is a powerful,
theologically rich, Spiritempowered, justice-oriented
gathering with a rich vision
for seeing the glory of God
established in all of life.
Jon Tyson is Pastor of Trinity
Grace Church in New York City.
He was a keynote speaker at
Jubilee 2015.
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JUBILEE IMPACT: MICHAEL WORSLEY
ENGAGEMENT OFFICER FOR WORLD VISION, INC., U.S. PROGRAMS
IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
I was revolutionized by the
Jubilee conference
I
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n 1979, I was a student at
Norfolk State University, a
historically black university
in Virginia. My campus
minister, Elward Ellis, was slated
to speak at Jubilee that year, and
he invited me and several other
students from the Norfolk State
Christian Fellowship/United
Christian Campus Ministry to
come with him to Pittsburgh.
At that point in my journey,
I was in what I call a “me and
Jesus” mindset. Jubilee gave me
some specific biblical principles
that opened up what it means to
have a vertical relationship with
Jesus while also pursuing justice
for others in the world.
Jubilee was such a
complement to what I was
learning through the teachings
of Elward and also Tom Skinner
Campus Ministry. Through
Skinner, I learned that my
relationship with Christ meant
advancing the Kingdom of God
in all spheres of influence—
politics, economics, education,
media, entertainment, and
health—everything. One
of the ways to do that was
understanding biblical justice,
that God wants us to pursue
justice because of how it bears on
our relationships with each other.
I learned that as a representative
of Christ’s Kingdom, I need
to be concerned about how all
relationships are affected by
power. Jubilee opened my eyes
to how we are all responsible to
open up a Kingdom perspective
of justice in our spheres of
influence.
Jubilee also provided access
to cutting-edge information
and people who were making
authentic change in the world.
I had a field day in the exhibit
area, picking up materials and
talking with representatives at
the information tables. I came
into contact with men and
women who had produced a lot
of critical work around biblical
justice. This made me feel like I
could start doing work like that
immediately in my context; I had
met leaders who would support
me if needed. For many years, I
would reach out to Jim Skillen
at the Center for Public Justice,
by phone or by driving out to
his office. Dr. Skillen made time
for me, and that access made me
feel empowered to represent the
Kingdom.
Jubilee affected my
commitment to excellence. It
affected how I studied. It freed
me from the trap of trying to get
a good job just to earn a lot of
money. I perceived that working
for money at the expense of
Kingdom purpose would be
empty, and that working on
personal excellence could help
prepare me for opportunities to
advocate for justice.
Jubilee taught me that
how you represent
Christ with excellence
in the marketplace
is important. When
people see that you
are both a person
of consistently
good character and
excellence, you can
have a radical influence
on the way they
think about God or a
relationship with God
through Christ.
Finally, Jubilee helped to
legitimize and professionalize
the direction I found myself
going in. In 1980, at the age of
22, I was going into Christian
broadcasting, but doors closed
there. That same year, I entered
the Master of Divinity program
at Howard University, was called
to licensed ministry, and received
a call from Tom Skinner to be
the next Chaplain at Howard
University. Jubilee helped to
prepare me for all three journeys
because of how I came to see and
understand the relevancy of my
faith to the world.
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y life had
been further
revolutionized
for the
Kingdom at Jubilee. The whole
time I was at Howard University,
both as a graduate student and a
Campus Chaplain, that life was
lived out. Jubilee helped bring
legitimacy to who I was and
what I was doing on campus.
The young man who succeeded
me at Howard University in
2006 became both an employee
of the CCO and the Skinner
Leadership Institute. Because
of this, a whole new generation
of students was exposed to the
powerful Kingdom vision and
values that had impacted my life
years before in 1979.
The CCO and Jubilee have
borne incredible fruit because
of that one invitation from
Elward Ellis. A small group of us
who attended then are in some
form of ministry today. We still
remember and model the impact.
—The Rev. Michael C. Worsley
graduated from Norfolk State
University in 1979 and earned
his M.Div. from Howard University
in 1984. He served as a University
Recognized Chaplain for Tom Skinner
Campus Ministry at Howard
University from 1981-2006.
A longtime friend of the CCO, the
late Elward Ellis was a Jubilee
keynote speaker three times. The
Rev. Ellis was a pastor and powerful leader in cross-cultural ministry.
Jim Skillen, author, founder of
The Center for Public Justice, and
leading scholar-practitioner within
the field of political science, has
been a frequent Jubilee speaker.
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JUBILEE IMPACT: DOUGLAS LEE
PRESIDENT OF WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY
Called to serve
I
am not able to divorce
my faith from my work or
from my family—and it’s
all because of the CCO
and Jubilee!
Jubilee gave us the
opportunity as students to look
at the public implications of
our own personal faith journeys.
What does it mean to be faithful
to God and to be His witness
to the world? Jubilee gave us
the opportunity to meet leaders
in all walks of life who were
working through that question
for themselves.
What does it mean to be the
light of the world and the salt of
the earth? I got to hear people
talk about how they were doing
that in business, law, education,
and government. C. Everett
Koop, former Surgeon General
of the United States, was there,
and he spoke in a small room
to a group of college students
about how he was living out his
Christian faith in service to our
country.
What does it mean to be
in the world and not of it?
How do we obey the great
commandment—loving God
and others? Those meetings,
handouts, and information
planted seeds in a lot of our
minds. These are the questions
that I continue to work out in
my life today.
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Eight years ago, I was a
partner in my law firm feeling
like I was living out the plan
God had for my life. My wife,
Kathi, and I had built a house,
and we figured in a few more
years, I’d retire and we would
look for ways to continue our
Christian witness.
I was also on the Board of
Trustees at my alma mater,
Waynesburg University, and I
had served as the first president
of Waynesburg’s Alumni
Council. We had been blessed
with an incredible President and
First Lady who had transformed
the University by leading it back
to its original Christian mission.
After serving unselfishly for 20
years, they were stepping down,
precipitating the search for
successors.
A search had been ongoing
when I received a call asking me
and Kathi to consider becoming
the next leaders of my beloved
alma mater.
It was one of the
most frightening and
amazing phone calls
in my life. Frightening
because, as a trustee,
I was aware of the
immense responsibility
and stress that goes
with the president’s
job. Amazing because
it was completely
unexpected, but at
a very deep level I
recognized it as the
next journey God had
planned for me and
Kathi.
After a lot of prayer and
discussion that focused on
discerning whether this was
a call, I came on board as
Executive Vice President in
2009. In 2013, I was named
President of the University.
The biggest thing that
Jubilee taught me back when I
was an undergraduate student
was to follow the greatest
commandment in all things—
to love God and to love my
neighbors. I can say—and
only on faith—that I think
the journey that I’ve been on,
including the one I’m on now, is
a continuation of that probing
question. What does it mean to
love Jesus Christ and how does
that translate to the world? It’s
about serving others.
My work as president of a
university founded on Christian
values means that we seek to
educate students to live a life of
purpose to the glory of God. We
equip them to live into that great
commandment, serving others in
a way that doesn’t seek our own
glorification, but is selfless and
looks to the needs of those we’re
serving.
G
od tells us to seek
and we will find.
If you’re willing
to embark on this
journey, you don’t know where
you’ll end up, but you’ll have the
great satisfaction of living fully
for Jesus. Jubilee plants those
seeds.
I love speaking to and learning from college students. It’s
awesome that Jubilee inspires
and challenges students to be
who God calls them to be.
I’m honored to have been
a part of this.
Amena Brown is a spoken word
poet and author of the book,
Breaking Old Rhythms: Answering
the Call of a Creative God.
—Douglas G. Lee is a 1981 graduate
of Waynesburg University. Prior to
becoming President of his alma mater,
he was a partner in the law firm of
Steptoe and Johnson. He first attended
Jubilee in 1978.
The late C. Everett Koop was
Surgeon General for the United
States from 1982 to 1989.
He spoke at Jubilee in 1980.
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Of all the Christian conferences I’ve ever attended
(excluding those in my
denomination), Jubilee
seems to have the most
traction when it comes
to figuring out this crosscultural thing. Jubilee was
so diverse, there was no
need to try to determine
percentages. Every nation,
every generation, every
culture. Right there in one
place, for an entire weekend, worshipping one God.
I would describe it to you,
but my words can’t do it
justice.
Deidra Riggs is the author
of Every Little Thing: Making
a World of Difference Right
Where You Are.
JUBILEE INSPIRED ME TO...
WORK OUT MY
FAITH IN THE
MARKETPLACE
WORK AS A
SCIENTIST FOR THE
GLORY OF GOD
PROVIDE CLEAN
DRINKING WATER
IN SUDAN
I came to college
with the idea
that faith was a
feeling and you
didn’t need to
engage your mind too deeply.
The CCO and Jubilee taught
me that I didn’t have to throw
away the intellectual in order to
follow God. For the first time,
I was able to make a distinction between Christianity as an
activity and as a relationship. I
had created a distinction in my
mind between ‘Christian work’
and ‘secular work,’ and Jubilee
helped to heal those divisions
for me and give me a more
holistic worldview. It was
powerful to go to Jubilee and see
something that was a concept
become concrete. It was exciting
to hear from people who were
trying to work out their faith in
the marketplace.
I’ve known I
wanted to be
a scientist since
I was 11, but
I felt that
I had to go into full-time
pastoral or missions ministry to
truly serve God. CCO staff and
the Jubilee conference taught
me that ministry can happen
whatever you do—it can
happen in science, business,
or wherever Christ calls us. I
remember hearing how Christ’s
calling to be salt in this world
was a call to being a preservative
in the world, as much as anything. That had a big impact
on my life, as it was a call for
me to take Christ’s news of
redemption to a scientific
community that put their trust
in logical discovery and proven
facts. Here was an opportunity
to join with others in exploring
the created world and marvel
at its wonder and beauty while
probing deeper to the inevitable
questions of faith.
For four years I
partnered with
the South Sudanese staff of the
local water office
to increase access to safe drinking water. We repaired broken
boreholes, increased the capacity
of existing boreholes by replacing
hand pumps with solar-powered
pumps, and worked towards a
reliable supply chain of replacement parts, among other things.
If it were not for Jubilee and the
impact of the CCO throughout
my years at Penn State, I don’t
believe I would have considered
myself someone who could be
a missionary water engineer.
Jubilee and the CCO helped me
remove the dichotomies I had in
my life, and I stopped separating
the sacred and the secular.
Robin Ross Smith, Chatham
University 1989, is now Senior
Research Director with the
DeBruce Foundation.
Dave Opalka, Geneva College
1998, now serves as Associate
Director of the Analytical Development Team in the Global Vaccines
and Biologics Department for
Merck and Co., Inc.
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Christine Olmeda, Penn State
University 2006, most recently
served as a Missionary Water
Engineer and Community
Development Practitioner with
Serge (formerly World Harvest
Mission) on the South
Sudan Team.
BE A TEACHER FOR
THE GLORY OF GOD
My first time at
Jubilee was
amazing. It was
like a slap in
the face, but in
a good way. It woke me up and
instilled in me a yearning that I
don’t think I would have found
anywhere else. My junior year
was the time I was really
trying to come back to my faith
and Jubilee was the last push
I needed to becoming all in.
Jubilee helped me look at the
world differently; it changed
how I view people and different
situations, and I have been able
to carry that into everything I do.
Gabrielle Ingram, Kent State
University 2012, is now an eighth
grade science teacher,
department head, and girls’
soccer coach.
BE AN ATTORNEY
FOR THE GLORY OF
GOD
PROVIDE HEALTH
CARE IN INNER-CITY
PHILADELPHIA
I attended
Jubilee conferences more
than 30 years
ago. At Jubilee,
I learned to yearn with creation
for the redemption of all things.
That yearning influenced the way
I entered into my college and law
school studies. Seeking to be a
redeeming influence has made
a lifetime of difference at home,
at work, and in my community.
Jubilee planted seeds of concern
for the city, racial relations, and
justice that have bloomed into
things like living in the inner
city, reforming mortgage foreclosure laws, and delighting
in my bi-racial grandchildren.
I am grateful for the richness of
my experiences of the Kingdom
that I trace, in large part, to the
impact of Jubilee and the CCO.
Athough I was
a CCO student,
I didn’t go to
Jubilee until
after graduating
from college. I was working in
a hospital as a management
engineer, and hearing people talk
about redemption in their various
career areas was extremely helpful
for me. I began to see the idea of
God’s redemption touching all of
life. For five days, I was so excited
about this that I was unable to
sleep because of the joy of that.
This began a different journey
for me, integrating my faith with
everything, and seeing God’s
redemption in all areas of life.
Sixteen years ago, I believe God
called me to live among the poor,
and I moved to an impoverished
African American and Puerto
Rican community in North
Philadelphia. I purchased a house
in close proximity to my church
so I could participate in what
God is doing there. I am very
blessed to watch God at work in
my community.
Mark Greenlee, Allegheny
College 1980, is now Legal
Counsel for Federal Reserve Bank
of Cleveland.
Susan Post, Grove City
College 1981, is now Executive
Director of Esperanza Health
Center, a faith-based health
center serving Latino and other
low-income residents of North
Philadelphia
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I am a CCO fan! My times
at the Jubilee conference
MEET THE LEADERS OF THE FUTURE
over the years—I was there
almost at the beginning!
—have been memorable.
The Jubilee folks know how
to put together an exciting
blend of inspiring worship
ARCHITECTURE
PHARMACY
SOCIAL WORK
ACCOUNTING
“I hope to love God
“I see pharmacy as a
“I desire to serve Jesus
“I want to offer my
and love people and
work of redemption.
Christ with integrity
be a good architect.
Through optimizing
discipleship under the
I am finding out many
cosmic Lordship of Jesus
Christ.
and the kind of biblically
grounded “world and life
view” content that is so
much needed for equipping
a new generation for faithful
Richard J. Mouw, PhD
Author, President Emeritus and
Professor of Faith and
Public Life, Fuller Theological
Seminary
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BIOMEDICAL
ENGINEERING
INTERNATIONAL
STUDIES
services as a financial
“I dream of being a
“I hope to use my
and excellence as a
advisor to people who
missionary doctor,
language skills and
drug therapy, coun-
social worker. I want
cannot afford to pay
taking care of God’s
cultural knowledge to
exciting areas where
seling patients, and
to steward the relation-
back in my home
people all over the
welcome immigrants and
architecture is relevant
preventing potentially
ships He entrusts to me
country of Vietnam.”
world while sharing
refugees into the Church
with the healing and
deadly medication
by supporting others
His amazing love.”
in the German-speaking
restoration of the
misuse, I will battle the
to be resilient in the
world.”
sickness that was never
direction of hope.”
Timothy Ong
CCO Student Leader,
Kent State University,
Architecture Major
meant to be part of
our world.”
Julia Stone
CCO Student Leader,
Purdue University,
Pharmacy Major
Jose Ferran, Jr.
CCO Student Leader,
Esperanza College of
Eastern University,
Community & Human
Services Major
Ngoc-bich Thi Tran
CCO Student Leader,
Geneva College,
Accounting and Business
Finance Major
Mukui Mutunga
CCO Student Leader,
Robert Morris University,
Biomedical Engineering Major
world and to help them
adapt to German society.”
Nicholas Bersin
CCO Student Leader,
University of Pittsburgh,
East European Studies &
German Major
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SERVING JESUS CHRIST
IN PSYCHOLOGY
“My dream is to open up a private psychology
firm where I specialize in treating young
individuals who are dealing with addictions.
Rooting my practice in the truths of the Bible,
I hope to bring spiritual healing to those who
seek my professional help.”
ROSE SO
CCO STUDENT LEADER
Allegheny College, Psychology
SERVING JESUS CHRIST
IN URBAN STUDIES
“I hope to pursue a career that combines my
passions for community, the arts, and social
justice, in a way that makes manifest Jesus’s
resurrection in our cities.”
MADELEINE WATTENBARGER
CCO STUDENT LEADER
University of Pennsylvania, Urban Studies
SERVING JESUS CHRIST
IN BUSINESS & POLITICS
“I want to invest time and resources to help
build churches and grow community in remote
areas of the world.”
BAROUK GARI
CCO STUDENT LEADER
Ashland University, International Business & International Political Studies
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