InterVarsity leaders back Black Lives Matter efforts during student conference

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, an evangelical college ministry, issued a call to support the Black Lives Matter movement at its yearly student missions conference.

In the United States, more than 41,000 college students are involved in InterVarsity chapters. Since the 1940s, InterVarsity’s Urbana missions conference has brought together thousands of its students for four days of seminars, worship services, and meetings.

While the name of the conference still refers to its longtime location at the University of Illinois, the conference is now held in St. Louis—13 miles from Ferguson, Missouri.