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Campus Life HS

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Kiawah Island Week 2024 // Highlights

Director

Jen Muscenti

Campus Life ministry combines healthy relationships with creative programs to help young people make good choices, establish a solid foundation for life, and positively impact their schools. Like every ministry of YFC, Campus Life seeks to engage these young people wherever they are found and create lifelong followers of Jesus Christ. Campus Life encourages a balanced life-mentally, physically, spiritually, and socially.

Relationships:
We personally engage students with the wisdom and guidance of a caring adult.  Whether through cheering them on at their athletic or extra-curricular events, chatting over smoothies, or celebrating their birthday, we endeavor to be present as students navigate the highs, lows, and the in-between of adolescence.

Meetings:
In each of the schools we serve, we support student leaders as they run on-campus Christian Fellowship clubs.  These meetings provide the chance for students to build community with one another as they are drawn together by a common faith and purpose.

Trips & Events:
From Guardians games and service events, to treehouse retreats and summer programs on Kiawah Island, CLPS offers students a chance to come together with those from other independent schools to build and strengthen relationships while also diving deeper into their knowledge of Jesus.

OUR HISTORY

Campus Life is a program that has served students ages 11-19 in Cleveland and throughout the United States since 1965. Currently, Campus Life has over 1,000 sites located throughout 40 states.

In 2014, Cleveland Campus Life launched the Campus Life Private Schools (CLPS) program to serve students in independent schools in the Greater Cleveland area. As of 2024 CLPS has served students seven different independent schools in the Greater Cleveland area.

CLPS partners with FOCUS (Fellowship of Christians in Universities & Schools), an organization based out of New Canaan, CT  that has served independent school students since 1961.  FOCUS has Area Ministry offices in eleven locations including Boston, New England Boarding Schools, Philadelphia, Fairfield/Westchester, New Jersey, New York City, Greater Washington Area, Baltimore, Richmond & Central Virginia, Raleigh, and San Francisco.

For a full list of schools served along with more info, visit infocus.org.

Jen Muscenti

Campus Life Private Schools Ministry Director

Jen grew up on the east side of Cleveland. She attended Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights from 9th-12th grade. Jen went on to complete a Bachelors in Business Administration with a focus in Organizational Leadership from Cedarville University. Upon graduation, Jen spent six years working in downtown Cleveland at the Sherwin-Williams Corporate Headquarters in an HR capacity. In 2014, Jen joined Greater Cleveland Youth For Christ to launch the Campus Life Private Schools program. It is her joy to serve students from the community that she too was fostered by during life’s most formative years.

Michael Skizenta

Campus Life Private Schools Field Staff

A native to Cleveland, Michael attended Hiram College where he played football. He graduated in 2018 with a B.A. in Communications and proceeded to pursue an M.A. in Theological Studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Michael has spent the last several years serving in youth ministry roles with both middle and high school students. Michael’s energy, enthusiasm, and relational abilities make him a great addition to the Campus Life Private Schools team.

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Katie Thompson

Campus Life Private Schools Field Staff

As I step into the role of Campus Life Private Schools Field Staff, I am both honored and humbled to serve the Lord in this way and to join such an incredible team. Through stepping out in faith and choosing obedience, God has led me to this ministry, and I feel deeply blessed that He would allow me to share the Gospel with students in private schools; drawing His children closer to Himself. My prayer is to be a faithful vessel, building meaningful relationships with students, and pointing them toward the hope and truth found in Jesus Christ.

Zac Fletcher

Campus Life Private Schools Field Staff

I am entering this new season expectant, ready to see God move in the lives of these students. Campus Life Private Schools has grown in many ways, since it began 11 years ago, and I am excited to be part of a team that is delving into the things of God with students who are hungry for more than this world can offer them. I enter this new role full of gratitude, humbled, and aware of the great responsibility I have to sow into the lives of these students.

Campus Life Private Schools Team