We seek to be a vibrant and welcoming community through the study and application of God's word in our life together, faithfully praying for each other, our community, our departments, and our campus, fostering the growing and deepening of relationships with our Lord Jesus Christ and each other, and serving those in need.
In striving to do this Graduate Christian Fellowship provides a place for Christian dialogue and discipleship within the University community in order to bring a Christian perspective to the academic arena and to enable Christian graduate and professional students to become more effective witnesses to the glory and honor of Jesus Christ.
As a group of committed graduate students, we seek to balance our calling to be a community of Christian disciples with our calling to reach out to the campus. We desire to spur one another on in our mutual journey of faith, to grapple seriously with the intellectual issues of our times from a Christian perspective, and to engage the campus with Jesus Christ. To that end, we have the following objectives:
Graduate Christian Fellowship is a Chapter of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, which in turn is part of a world-wide, student-led Christian movement, active in colleges and universities, known as the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES). GCF seeks to minister to graduate students through a variety of student-led programs and activities:
As a chapter of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Graduate Christian Fellowship is committed to the doctrinal basis of InterVarsity:
The only true God, the almighty Creator of all things, existing eternally in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - full of love and glory.
The unique divine inspiration, entire trustworthiness and authority of the Bible.
The value and dignity of all people: created in God's image to live in love and holiness, but alienated from God and each other because of our sin and guilt, and justly subject to God's wrath.
Jesus Christ, fully human and fully divine, who lived as a perfect example, who assumed the judgment due sinners by dying in our place, and who was bodily raised from the dead and ascended as Savior and Lord.
Justification by God's grace to all who repent and put their faith in Jesus Christ alone for salvation.
The indwelling presence and transforming power of the Holy Spirit, who gives to all believers a new life and a new calling to obedient service.
The unity of all believers in Jesus Christ, manifest in worshiping and witnessing churches making disciples throughout the world.
The victorious reign and future personal return of Jesus Christ, who will judge all people with justice and mercy, giving over the unrepentant to eternal condemnation but receiving the redeemed into eternal life.
To God be glory forever.
For more information about Graduate Christian Fellowship at the University of Michigan, contact Rob Narske.
To contact the GCF leadership via email, send a message to GCF Requests.