om Lin, 43, a Chicago native, Harvard grad, one-time missionary to Mongolia, was recently named the first nonwhite president of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, the national ministry to 40,200 university students, based in Madison, Wis.
Most recently, he served as head of Urbana 15, the missions conference that occurs once every three years.
InterVarsity recently achieved a milestone of 1,000 chapters on 649 campuses, yet its chart-busting growth has also been accompanied by intense resistance, most recently when it pledged support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Another challenge is the denial of recognition by several universities and colleges, because InterVarsity wants to select campus leaders on the basis of religion, which many schools view as discriminatory.
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