South San Diego Area

                The South San Diego Area is very important for you all to learn about as it is at the core of our new structure and vision for Mesa and San Diego State and more schools in the vicinity. Since it is a bit of an information overload, I just want to make you all aware that Mesa is now part of the South San Diego Intervarsity. In order to understand more of what this means I just wanted to introduce to you the basic structure, our vision, and what this means for our team (you and me).

                The structure of South San Diego InterVaristy (SSD IV) consists of the combination of many schools centered in one area, namely San Diego State University (SDSU). SDSU is what we call our hub. Other schools such as mesa are kind of satellites. What we want to do is bring community colleges, like Mesa, into collaboration with a bigger 4 year university, State. At this point it is just Mesa and State that are part of SSD IV, but we have desire to reach other local community colleges like City, Southwestern, and Grossmont where we’ve calculated there are over 100,000 students.

You might be wondering how this looks on a weekly basis. Well, what will happen is that we will have small groups on Mesa (we currently have 4 community groups and 1 prayer meeting) but our large group is held at Faith Presbyterian right next to SDSU. Our last 3 large groups have been pretty big with on the order of 80 students from both campuses joining us for the evening (come check one out sometime).

This SSD IV structure doesn’t change my role very much. I still have my focus at Mesa College as of now where I invest in our leaders there to reach out to those students taking classes at Mesa College. I look forward to sharing more with you regarding the specifics of my role but that will have to wait for some quality time with ya. In terms of broadening my influence, there is a potential that our team will now also have a greater influence as I am also able to interact with State students. Though they are not my primary responsibility, the overall unity of our area is a primary responsibility. Ive already had some great interactions with students at state.

What we are about as an area is best captured in our vision and it is the last thing I will leave you with. Our vision for South San Diego InterVarsity is that “we are a multi-ethnic witnessing community transformed by Jesus reaching every campus culture.” I get more and more excited about the structures God is putting in place to accomplish great things, even dreams of reaching some very tough to reach campus cultures. Praise the Lord! If you want to hear more, I would love to chat with you.