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History
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The University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK) has an enrollment of approximately 26,000 students located in the heart of Knoxville. IVCF began campus ministry at UTK in the 1950's.
For many years IVCF tried unsuccessfully to invite Black students into the fellowship. Cultural barriers and the realities of race on campus made this outreach impossible for the overwhelmingly white InterVarsity group. During those difficult years, God raised up many students who began to reach out across racial lines with the gospel and laid the foundation through prayer for a Black student fellowship. For many years however, there appeared to be no fruit from these efforts.
In 1994 a Black student who had attended the Urbana '93 missions conference returned to UT and began a "small informal prayer group" that became the seed through which a Black student fellowship would eventually form. In 1995 Collegiate Black Christian Fellowship (CBC) began as a major outreach to UT's under-served Black student population. Beginning with only a handful of committed students, in four years, CBC has grown to become one of the largest and most successful Black InterVarsity chapter in the country. God has used CBC to bring many young men and women to Christ and to strengthen and encourage hundreds more in their faith.
CBC is partnered in ministry at UT with AXIS Christian Fellowship, the traditional IVCF ministry. AXIS continues to reach out primarily to the White student population of UTK. Both CBC and AXIS are committed to working together in order to engage the entire campus with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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