Campus Outreach StaffCast

We begin episode 68 with news of Curtis Tanner, one of Campus Outreach's founders, who passed away on October 28, 2026.

Our guest this week is John Evanko, Area Director for Campus Outreach Lexington, KY. John's testimony, decades of campus ministry experience, and desire to equip young Christians for personal ministry after college stir up the visionary calling of Jesus to “go and make disciples” (Matthew 28:19). John shares the simple, biblical approach to building evangelism into a culture, which is a testimony to how a campus ministry can be strengthened through a collective of personal evangelism. John's outline for one-on-one Bible reading is a great way to approach laboring for a lifetime. 

Movement Spotlight: Campus Outreach Brisbane, Australia / Uni Impact

Season 5 will focus on the Ministry Strengthening Needs that we believe every Campus Outreach location has in this current season: spiritual fervency, evangelism culture, multiplication, contextualized strategy, church alignment, partnering culture, and expansion commitments. 

Resources:

• The Fuel and the Flame, Ignite Your Campus for Jesus Christ by Steve Shadrach and Paul Worcester - Via
• One-on-one Bible Study passages: Ephesians 2:1-10, Luke 23:32-23, John 3:1-21

Music by QubeSounds and Bamboo Corporate

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The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

Our guest this week is Daniel Hill, Expansion Director for Campus Outreach North Florida. Daniel shares about his personal battle to keep spiritual fervency at the heart of his life, ministry, and leadership. Through personal examples and resources, Daniel's experience allows him to speak to the absolute importance of keeping Jesus Christ the central focus of any campus or personal ministry. He also shares about how launching the CO ministry in St Augustine, Florida, is an opportunity to build a foundation of spiritual dependence from the very start. 

Movement Spotlight: Campus Outreach Khon Kaen, Thailand

Resources:

• The Reformed Pastor by Richard Baxter - Banner of Truth
• Brothers, We Are Not Professionals by John Piper - B&H Books

Season 5 will focus on the Ministry Strengthening Needs that we believe every Campus Outreach location has in this current season: spiritual fervency, evangelism culture, multiplication, contextualized strategy, church alignment, partnering culture, and expansion commitments. 

Music by QubeSounds and Bamboo Corporate

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The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

Our guest this week is Paul Poteat, Midwest Network Director for Campus Outreach. Paul's staff experience and his interaction with many CO teams over the past years uniquely position him to speak into the context of how the seven strengthening needs came to be. Drawing on 40 years of CO history and the current waves of cultural impact, this episode reviews the challenges and opportunities campus ministries face. Paul concludes our episode with a charge to actively pursue what will strengthen, not only for a successful ministry, but also for a fulfilling life with Christ.

Movement Spotlight: Campus Outreach Indianapolis

Season 5 will focus on the Ministry Strengthening Needs that we believe every Campus Outreach location has in this current season: spiritual fervency, evangelism culture, multiplication, contextualized strategy, church alignment, partnering culture, and expansion commitments. 

Music by QubeSounds and Bamboo Corporate

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Would you like to hear more stories like these? Check out our blog, which publishes stories about what God is actively doing through Campus Outreach ministries around the world. Visit serve.campusoutreach.org/blog/

The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

Season 5 of the Campus Outreach StaffCast will launch in September 2026.

We at Campus Outreach SERVE desire for the StaffCast to encourage, equip, and STRENGTHEN those laboring in God's harvest field, on the campus and beyond.

Season 5 will focus on the Ministry Strengthening Needs that we believe every Campus Outreach location has in this current season: 

• spiritual fervency, 
• evangelism culture, 
• multiplication, 
• contextualized strategy, 
• church alignment, 
• partnering culture, 
• expansion commitments. 

Join us for new episodes every 2-3 weeks during Season 5. 

Music by QubeSounds and Bamboo Corporate

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Would you like to hear more stories like these? Check out our blog, which publishes stories about what God is actively doing through Campus Outreach ministries around the world. Visit serve.campusoutreach.org/blog/

The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

This week, we welcome back Melanie Rogers, LEAD Program Team Leader with CO SERVE. Also, Mary Kelly Letro from the SERVE Mobilization Team joins us again as our special guest co-host. As we look back on 10 years of the LEAD Program, we discuss the recent history of international mobilization with Campus Outreach, including our personal stories! Melanie shares statistics and stories from the field, from both LEAD staff and tenured CO staff who mobilized internationally with the NEXT program. 

If you're interested, this is also our FIRST EVER VIDEO podcast! You can enjoy audio as usually or dive into the video version on your podcast service.

Music by QubeSounds

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The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

Today, we bring a special episode with a special co-host, Mary Kelly Letro from the CO SERVE Mobilization Team. Also, joining us as our guest is Derrell Mims, Campus Director at Berry College in Rome, GA. Mary Kelly and Derrell have teamed up over the past years as the Berry College staff team has made it a point to keep the nations - both going and sending - as an integral part of their campus movement. Join us to hear more about how it looks on this specific campus and how it might look on yours!

Movement Spotlight: Campus Outreach SERVE Mobilization Team 

• The Mobilization Team's mission statement is “to engage and inspire Christians to play their part in what God is doing.”
• Visit them at lead.campusoutreach.org

Resources:

• 4Ds: Desire, Design, Development, Doors
• Senior Transition Tool Booklet

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Would you like to hear more stories like these? Check out our blog, which publishes stories about what God is actively doing through Campus Outreach ministries around the world. Visit serve.campusoutreach.org/blog/

The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

Our guest this week is Alan Andrioni. Alan is currently on staff in Birmingham, England. However, his testimony and first years on staff trace back to Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where and when both hosts, Kent Bailey and Jon Elam, were on staff. Alan shares how the missional community he experienced drew him to Christ, and how the gospel transformed not only himself, but his family, classmates, and friends. After his tenure in Brazil, Alan and his family moved to labor in England, and he shares particularities of these two contexts, both challenges and opportunities. Europe is awakening once again, and he is excited to share how the church is meeting needs.

Movement Spotlight: Campus Outreach Lima

Season 4 will focus on our definition of a laborer, “a person mobilized through the church to live out Christ-centered identity with Spirit-filled character, who is governed by a Biblical worldview and who engages persuasively among non-Christians with the gospel and is equipped to multiply this lifestyle in others.”

Music by QubeSounds and Bamboo Corporate

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Would you like to hear more stories like these? Check out our blog, which publishes stories about what God is actively doing through Campus Outreach ministries around the world. Visit serve.campusoutreach.org/blog/

The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

Our guest this week is Joanne Lewis, who has faithfully labored and discipled since her college days. Joanne came to Christ at the University of Montevallo in the early days of Campus Outreach and embarked on her "life of adventure”with her husband Brian Lewis (episode #60). Today, she lives in Memphis, TN, and continues to invest her time in Campus Outreach and women in ministry. Joanne's passion stems from the reality that the Lord grows us as we go, and we go as we grow. She desires to see the amazing things God will do with our availability.

Movement Spotlight: Campus Outreach Athens

Season 4 will focus on our definition of a laborer, “a person mobilized through the church to live out Christ-centered identity with Spirit-filled character, who is governed by a Biblical worldview and who engages persuasively among non-Christians with the gospel and is equipped to multiply this lifestyle in others.”

Music by QubeSounds and Bamboo Corporate

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Would you like to hear more stories like these? Check out our blog, which publishes stories about what God is actively doing through Campus Outreach ministries around the world. Visit serve.campusoutreach.org/blog/

The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

Our guest this week is Blake Buckman, Area Director with Campus Outreach Lexington, Kentucky. Blake is a blue-blood Kentuckian and loves to labor where his roots are strong. Blake came to faith in college through the faithful ministry of a few CO staff. His staff experience came when he felt so strongly about spending his days sharing Jesus on campus, “I can do nothing else.” Through fruitful seasons and very hard seasons, Blake boldly relies on the simplicity of the gospel and the saving grace of Jesus to continue to labor. Blake also shares about the incredible fruitfulness of CO Lexington's recent years on campus and how they strive to continue developing Christ-like laborers who can engage persuasively in any context with the good news of salvation.

Movement Spotlight: Campus Outreach CONNECT (click link to register)

Season 4 will focus on our definition of a laborer, “a person mobilized through the church to live out Christ-centered identity with Spirit-filled character, who is governed by a Biblical worldview and who engages persuasively among non-Christians with the gospel and is equipped to multiply this lifestyle in others.”

Music by QubeSounds and Bamboo Corporate

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If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on your favorite podcasting service to receive new episodes as soon as they are released.

Would you like to hear more stories like these? Check out our blog, which publishes stories about what God is actively doing through Campus Outreach ministries around the world. Visit serve.campusoutreach.org/blog/

The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

Our guest this week is Sarah L., on staff with Campus Outreach Birmingham, England. Sarah shares her upbringing as a child of Campus Outreach staff, her conversion, and the first twinges of a desire to become a laborer. She shares her reflections on what it means not only to be a follower and disciple of Jesus, but also a laborer in God's harvest field. Sarah's burden is to see multiplication happen all over the world, especially among the multiple worldviews, religions, and nationalities she works with on the U.K. campus. 

Sarah's passion and resolve to be a laborer can be heard when she says, "Lord, you've got to take this to the next generation, and they have to be able to multiply this to the next generation, it can't end with me!”

Movement Spotlight: Campus Outreach San Diego

Season 4 will focus on our definition of a laborer, “a person mobilized through the church to live out Christ-centered identity with Spirit-filled character, who is governed by a Biblical worldview and who engages persuasively among non-Christians with the gospel and is equipped to multiply this lifestyle in others.”

Music by QubeSounds and Bamboo Corporate

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If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on your favorite podcasting service to receive new episodes as soon as they are released.

Would you like to hear more stories like these? Check out our blog, which publishes stories about what God is actively doing through Campus Outreach ministries around the world. Visit serve.campusoutreach.org/blog/

The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.