GoCorps and Intervarsity
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How It Started
Our focus of using your degree and serving incarnationally has been a great fit for IV students! Since 2012, we've been a part of every Urbana and have connected with a bunch of CSMs. We've had hundreds of coaching conversations with InterVarsity students and have placed dozens of these students in our two-year placements.
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How It's Going
Urbana and GoCorps formed a strategic partnership to invite all students at the Urbana22 conference to consider a mid-term mission commitment upon graduation. This partnership has resulted in hundreds of students and dozens of CSMs connecting with GoCorps pursuing next step and mobilization resources.
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What's Next?
Are you a CSM, Area or Regional Director? Take a first step and let us help you envision, equip and connect students of all majors and all backgrounds. Take our 5 Question Quiz about your ministry, and our team will send you a curated list of ideas and resources that we can help you with that are specific to your context.
How Intervarsity Has Helped Prepare Goers
Lynn
During my time in Intervarsity, it didn’t matter on our major or our background, we gathered together because we just wanted to see God’s Kingdom come on campus. There were engineering majors, business majors, agriculture majors, you name it! Yet we all came together each week to grow, learn, and be sent out to be lights in our own little parts of campus.
GoCorps was a natural extension of that. Just like at IV, all degrees could be used to see God’s Kingdom come in this world. I didn’t have to be a special major to go overseas, just like I didn’t have to be a special major to be in IV and make an impact on my campus.
IV taught me how to be a light and grow in my faith while I was studying engineering. GC gave me a chance to be a light and grow in my faith as I actually did engineering!
-Lynn, California Polytechnic State University, Engineering Track
Nathan
"My time with Intervarsity at UT Austin allowed me to get a glimpse of God's multicultural family. I was a part of Asian American Campus Ministry (AACM) chapter of IV, but one of my favorite events was when we gathered all the different ethnic chapters together for joint fellowship. For anyone that's experienced the diversity and community of IV, or participated in their STiM missions program, GoCorps is a great way to extend and explore that deeper calling for missions."
-Nathan, University of Texas, Business Track
Christine
"My involvement with the InterVarsity chapter at California State University, Northridge led me to being connected with GoCorps! It was through IV that the Lord continued to grow my heart to serve Him, and have a Kingdom mindset in the work that I do, so coming out of college it felt like a very smooth transition from graduating to learning more about what GoCorps is all about and getting involved. Because IV is all about serving and coming alongside students, and GC focuses on young adults and recent grads, the decision to become a Goer felt very natural and I felt seen in the stage of life I was at."
-Christine, California State University, Arts Track
Sarah
"I was an IV student from 2016 to 2019 and during that time had the opportunity to go to Urbana 2018, where I first was exposed to GoCorps. My time as an Intervarsity student really helped to set the foundation for what the Lord would end up doing through Urbana and the months that followed as I wrestled with and considered what the Lord was asking me to do after graduation. The community around me, the love of scripture that was fostered, and the discipleship within IV was all integral to anchoring me as I stepped into the exciting call that was going overseas for 2 years. I'm so thankful for how God used my time in Intervarsity to prepare me for (unbeknownst to me) and expose me to an incredible time to serve overseas with GoCorps."
-Sarah, The College of St. Scholastica, Compassion - Justice Track
We help you mobilize better!
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For Underclassmen - Cultivate Global Christians!
We help you cultivate global vision, specializing in the integration of a student’s major and God’s mission. Our resources include articles, trainings on the Biblical basis of missions and fundraising, short-term mission trip training and debrief and stories from the field centered on how our passions become pathways for the gospel.
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For Seniors - Mid-Term Missions!
Invite your seniors to serve globally in their first step after graduation. Refer seniors of all majors to our curated Placement List, connect your students to a 1:1 coaching Zoom call with one of our placment coaches or have your student participate in one of our online global discernment cohorts or our 4 week Explore Global bible, global and next step overview.
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For You - Find Your People!
GoCorps offers a community of mobilizers that are a network of collegiate and ministry leaders who are passionate about the great commission and college students. Our monthly newsletter, Mobilizing Gen Z webinars and annual partner summits and vision trips are ways for you to be refreshed, equipped and envisioned!
Placements by Major
Business and Management
Communications
Computer Science
Design/Media
Economics
Education
Engineering
English
Liberal Arts
Marketing
Nursing
Political Science
Social Work
And More...
“I love how GoCorps is re-defining God’s mission as the renewal of all things through all vocations. They’re helping to stir up college graduates and launch them into the world with a solid theology of what it means to serve God overseas through your job.”
Scott Bessenecker
National Director, Global Engagement & Justice InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
How GoCorps works - GoCorps placements are entry-level positions for recent grads.
Year 1 is focused on culture and language learning, and developing cross-cultural competency and communication skills.
Year 2 allows students to take on leadership responsibilities and build on the language and relationships that were developed in their first year.
After their 2 years, our Goers have all the options on the table... marketplace, global, grad school or ministry! They have two years of cross-cultural living experience, practical real world job experience in their major, many 'out of their comfort zone' experiences and stories, and life-long friendships.
GoCorps placements are designed for globally-minded Christians who want to make a difference, grow in their faith and use their unique background and skill-set.