UGA RUF Ministry Teams

RUF is a ministry “to students, through students, under the oversight of an ordained campus minister.” We are not a staff-driven or staff-heavy ministry. That means there are real and engaging ways you get to lend your own gifts, experiences, and contributions in service to our greater mission to reach UGA with the Gospel of Jesus.

We’re also not a merely a student-run ministry (with no oversight at all). That means you’ll find biblically faithful and rich teaching here from seminary trained, experienced staff. Add these two dynamics up and you get a ministry that continually nourishes you while also equipping you to go out and minister to others. Here’s a glimpse of how we’ve organized ourselves in this mission. These are the different teams students of all stripes at UGA who are serving Jesus by serving their neighbors on campus.

If you’re newer to RUF and would like to talk more about getting involved or joining one of the ministry teams below, please reach out!

Ministry AREAS

[ SPIRITUAL GROWTH ]

  • Worship:  Keeps our hearts fixed on the Person and work of our triune God by leading the UGA and RUF community in engaging, honest, accessible, and formative worship.

  • Prayer: Regularly prays bold, perceptive, expectant prayers on RUF and UGA’s behalf and works to cultivate a culture of this kind of prayer across all of RUF.

  • Discipleship: Cultivates the relational and spiritual health of RUF's community and coordinates a network of weekly small group Bible studies accessible to the full spectrum of UGA students.

  • Large Group: Works to ensure that what is remembered from RUF Large Group is a welcoming community, a hospitable room, and a rich experience of God’s presence instead of glitches, distractions, or hurried people.

[ RELATIONAL GROWTH ]

  • Freshmen Family: Pursues, welcomes, and weaves freshmen on our campus into the fabric of RUF's life and

    community through personal discipleship, connecting events, and Tuesday Freshman Fellowship.

  • Freshmen Fellowship: Cultivates the relational and spiritual health of those freshmen at UGA and UNG that are gathered into RUF’s Freshmen Fellowship ministry.

  • Connections: Seamlessly weaves newcomers to RUF like UGA and UNG transfer students, sophomores, and fringe students into the life and mission of RUF's community.

[ OUTREACH & MERCY ]

  • Campus Care:  Keeps RUF’s eyes alert to the tangible needs and burdens of our fellow students, faculty, and staff and develops avenues for us to reach them and help lift their burdens.

  • Communications: Shares RUF’s story to UGA as broadly and memorably as possible through social media, print media, advertising, word-of-mouth, and other avenues.

  • Major Events: Creates events that foretaste the new heavens and new earth in breaking down barriers, drawing outsiders in, and bringing light-hearted joy to all who come.