Welcome to B-Less
B-Less is an emergent Christian ministry focused on training, mentoring, and resourcing graduate students to support Christian undergraduates in their faith and witness to the University.In a culture where reaching undergraduates with the gospel has become ever harder for established Christian ministries, graduate students have a precious opportunity.
Grad students have ready access to undergrads
- They are members of the same institutions
- They study in the same libraries
- They dine in the same cafeterias
Grad students have automatic credibility with undergrads
- They are part of the same academic discussions
- They work with the same professors
- They have passed through the same hurdles
The door is wide open for gospel-hearted grad students to encourage, envision, and mentor younger Christians and to support outreach to not-yet Christians.
B-Less exists to identify them, to equip them, and to deploy them as invisible enablers – strengthening existing ministries and pioneering new forms of gospel engagement for the emerging needs of the 21st century.
Why B-Less?
Imagine a world where every problem is solved by self-determination and self-reliance, by acquiring more and more stuff, by making sure we’re not missing out on the opportunities being enjoyed by others. A world in which self-gratification is the ultimate good, and putting ourselves first is the way to satisfaction. Sound familiar?
We live in this world – surrounded by a culture obsessed with ‘being more’, with making a name for itself. But Jesus calls us to be less – to follow him, who came ‘not to be served, but to serve’, and embrace the path of self-sacrificial service for the sake of others.
This is the ethos which animates B-Less, and gives rise to our name. In a culture shouting at us to be more in order to be useful, it is our conviction that Christ calls us to be less in order to be a blessing to the world.