GRADUATE/INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP




The UMASS Graduate/International Christian Fellowship is a gathering of international students and graduate students that provides a friendly environment for learning more about the Christian faith and exploring the Bible in greater depth.  Our meeting times are also a chance for us to share our lives and enjoy fellowship and fun together.  We seek to provide an enriching environment for both experienced and new Christians alike as well as those who maybe exploring Christianity for the very first time. Come join us!



This fellowship is affiliated with the Graduate InterVarsity Christian Fellowship nationally and regionally.  Our fellowship was founded in the Fall of 2000 with the goal of ministering to the graduate and international students at the University of Massachusetts.  The group started with a few students in an informal investigative Bible Study and has grown into a close-knit community of graduate students committed to growing in Christ together and integrating our academic and spiritual lives.  We're hoping that as the group continues to grow and develop, it will be able to reach out to, meet the needs of, and effectively serve the larger university community.  We are holding regular Bible studies on Friday evenings and host several special events.  We hope to continue these ministries and add others as interest and need lead us.

One of the things we value most about our group is our diversity.  Members of the group have come to Amherst from states all across the USA and from countries all over the world.  The map below illustrates that we represent a small portrait of the Great Multitude of Believers.


map courtesy of www.theodora.com/maps

"After this, I saw a vast crowd, too great to count, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing in front of the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white and held palm branches in their hands.  And they were shouting with a mighty shout, "Salvation comes from our God on the throne and from the Lamb!"  -Revelation 7:9-10

This page was last updated on December 9, 2005.