I'm When I think about telling campfire stories, I am immediately drawn back to my years as a youth pastor and summer camp.

Maybe the most powerful night of summer camp is the last bonfire, the end of the week.

You're with your students and people are just sharing their stories about life and the way God has worked in their life.

There's laughter, there's usually some singing, some joking.

I mean, it is just the pinnacle of that camp experience.

I'm Mike Jaderston.

I am the campus pastor at Friends University, a Christian liberal arts college with a Quaker heritage located in Wichita, Kansas.

So Friends University having a Quaker heritage really celebrates and has values that have been shared by the Quaker tradition.

Functionally, we are more multidominational and interdenominational.

And so our chapel service probably resembles a typical Protestant worship service.

However, we do have these themes of simplicity, of contemplation, of inclusion,

that consistently find their way into our message.

But what I sensed was it's very difficult to create any sort of connection. that consistently find their way into our message.

But what I sensed was it's very difficult to create any sort of connection in 20 minutes on a Thursday morning, especially with college students who are thinking about classes and sports

and everything going on.

There was also a sense of randomness to each chapel service.

Just there wasn't consistency between our chapel services.

We're here at the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities' multi-academic conference.

I was introduced to the Good Faith podcast at the CCCU conference where Curtis Chang and David French did a live podcast.

It's a room full of Christian higher ed, deans, provosts, faculty, chaplains, student life leaders, as like basically the people who are doing the work

of forming the next generation of Christians,

at least through Christian higher ed.

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