Michael Phillips
Reformed University Fellowship – Georgia Tech
[email protected]
415 Altoona Pl SW, Atlanta, GA 30310
www.ruf.org/gatech
Reformed University Fellowship (RUF)
1700 North Brown Road Suite 104
Lawrenceville, GA 30043-8143
www.ruf.org
Duties, responsibilities, work emphases:
Michael’s role as Campus Minister for RUF at Georgia Tech is to work as a pastor on campus. With the arrival of Covid-19, much of his and his team’s ministry has gone to video conferencing. He leads daily online prayer and scripture readings.
He preaches weekly at their Tuesday night large group, writes small group studies, trains small group leaders to lead 6 weekly small groups, meet bimonthly with the student leadership team, meets with students daily on campus, and oversees and pastors our two interns. Michael especially enjoys getting to pastor student leaders as he helps them grow in the faith using the gifts God has given them to serve His people and His world.
A little bit personal: Michael grew up in Texas and attended Belhaven University in Jackson MS studying Business Administration. During his years at Belhaven, he became involved in RUF and served as a Resident Assistant in campus housing. After graduation in 2007, he served for 8 months as pastoral intern at Lagniappe Presbyterian on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. In 2008, he served as an RUF intern at the University of Tennessee until 2010, when he started his Master of Divinity/Theology studies at Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, MO. After graduating in 2013, he moved to Atlanta as RUF’s campus minister at Georgia Tech. Michael enjoys gardening, cooking, reading, writing, and running. “Gilead” by Marilyn Robinson and “Jayber Crow” by Wendell Berry are two of his favorite books.
Prayer needs:
Reformed University Fellowship – Georgia Tech
[email protected]
415 Altoona Pl SW, Atlanta, GA 30310
www.ruf.org/gatech
Reformed University Fellowship (RUF)
1700 North Brown Road Suite 104
Lawrenceville, GA 30043-8143
www.ruf.org
Duties, responsibilities, work emphases:
Michael’s role as Campus Minister for RUF at Georgia Tech is to work as a pastor on campus. With the arrival of Covid-19, much of his and his team’s ministry has gone to video conferencing. He leads daily online prayer and scripture readings.
He preaches weekly at their Tuesday night large group, writes small group studies, trains small group leaders to lead 6 weekly small groups, meet bimonthly with the student leadership team, meets with students daily on campus, and oversees and pastors our two interns. Michael especially enjoys getting to pastor student leaders as he helps them grow in the faith using the gifts God has given them to serve His people and His world.
A little bit personal: Michael grew up in Texas and attended Belhaven University in Jackson MS studying Business Administration. During his years at Belhaven, he became involved in RUF and served as a Resident Assistant in campus housing. After graduation in 2007, he served for 8 months as pastoral intern at Lagniappe Presbyterian on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. In 2008, he served as an RUF intern at the University of Tennessee until 2010, when he started his Master of Divinity/Theology studies at Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, MO. After graduating in 2013, he moved to Atlanta as RUF’s campus minister at Georgia Tech. Michael enjoys gardening, cooking, reading, writing, and running. “Gilead” by Marilyn Robinson and “Jayber Crow” by Wendell Berry are two of his favorite books.
Prayer needs:
- Pray for continued wisdom on how best to minister virtually and that God would sustain spiritual growth of our students. Pray that we would not lead out of fear or brashness, but rather bold and humble love.
- Pray for rest and energy as we are all feeling the exhaustion of ministering amidst the changing daily realities of Covid.
- Pray that God would continue to surprise us with the students he brings into our midst especially when we aren’t able to execute many of our normal mechanisms for outreach.
- Pray that our graduates would find welcoming churches in which to serve and grow as they move to new cities around the country.
- Pray that new believers in our groups would grow in knowledge and spiritual maturity.
- Pray that God would bring students to love Jesus more deeply and to know his love for the first time this year.
- Pray that we as a staff would rest on the love and grace of Jesus this winter so that we could be prepared to pour out his love and grace in the coming year.
- Pray that God would continue to bless us with students who know and love Jesus and who are hungry to grow in their faith, and that he would continue bless us with students who are unchurched but who are curious about who Jesus is.
- Pray that God would give us the skills and wisdom to connect with a new generation of college students this winter.
