Campus Outreach StaffCast

Our guest this week is Alan Andrioni. Alan is currently on staff in Birmingham, England. However, his testimony and first years on staff trace back to Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where and when both hosts, Kent Bailey and Jon Elam, were on staff. Alan shares how the missional community he experienced drew him to Christ, and how the gospel transformed not only himself, but his family, classmates, and friends. After his tenure in Brazil,...

Our guest this week is Joanne Lewis, who has faithfully labored and discipled since her college days. Joanne came to Christ at the University of Montevallo in the early days of Campus Outreach and embarked on her "life of adventure”with her husband Brian Lewis (episode #60). Today, she lives in Memphis, TN, and continues to invest her time in Campus Outreach and women in ministry. Joanne's passion stems from the reality t...

Our guest this week is Blake Buckman, Area Director with Campus Outreach Lexington, Kentucky. Blake is a blue-blood Kentuckian and loves to labor where his roots are strong. Blake came to faith in college through the faithful ministry of a few CO staff. His staff experience came when he felt so strongly about spending his days sharing Jesus on campus, “I can do nothing else.” Through fruitful seasons and very hard seasons, Blake bo...

Our guest this week is Sarah L., on staff with Campus Outreach Birmingham, England. Sarah shares her upbringing as a child of Campus Outreach staff, her conversion, and the first twinges of a desire to become a laborer. She shares her reflections on what it means not only to be a follower and disciple of Jesus, but also a laborer in God's harvest field. Sarah's burden is to see multiplication happen all over the world, es...

This week, we are posting a message by Reverand Frank Barker from the 1999 Campus Outreach Christmas Conference, "He Is No Fool”, organized by CO Birmingham, AL.

In the weeks following the 2026 CO NatCon, the missional drive that permeates Campus Outreach ministries on college campuses worldwide serves as a reminder of the impact that Rev. Barker had on the ministry in its founding and expansion. Rev. Barker's simple and a...

Our guest this week is Jeff Bolger, Program Coordinator for the CO National Conference 2026. Jeff shares his testimony and his path with CO Birmingham, AL, to his current staff role and his responsibilities with the NatCon. Jeff, Kent, and Jon are excited about laying a foundation of excitement, vision, and prayer for what God has prepared for this catalytic event. Do you remember what God did in your life through a conference as a...

Our guest this week is Brian Lewis, Pastor of Outreach at Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis, TN. Brian spent over 30 years on staff with Campus Outreach before transitioning to pastoral ministry at the church where he served as Regional Director for Campus Outreach Memphis. Brian's fervor for evangelism and multiplying discipleship is clearly seen as he shares about his conversion, ministry experience, and current efforts ...

Our guest this week is Kike Astorga, Regional Director of Campus Outreach Guadalajara, Mexico. Kike is a native of Guadalajara, commonly referred to missiologically as the center of "the circle of silence” in Mexico, where only 1-2% of the population identifies as evangelical Christian. Kike's personal testimony of faith, his drive to tell others about the gospel, and being convinced to labor among his own people in Jalis...

Our guest this week is Grant Linneman, Tasman Network Director for Campus Outreach. Grant's testimony and experience are filled with the efforts of laborers in his own life. Now, after 20 years of laboring on staff with Uni-Impact (Campus Outreach in Australia), he invests in pastoral care of and investment into developing laborers from campus, his local church, and regional staff teams. Grant's insight into the challenge...

Our guest this week is Samantha Roberts, International Network Women's Development Director with Campus Outreach SERVE. Samantha brings so much to our conversation about the Definition of a Laborer from her personal testimony and ministry experience. She also brings the experience of women leaders from Campus Outreach ministries. Her convictions and passion concerning seeing people as Jesus did, engaging with the “unlikelies” ...

Our guest this week is Beau Hughes, Lead Pastor at The Village Church Denton in Denton, TX. As a CO hub church pastor, Beau has actively engaged with Campus Outreach staff and teams, which makes him the perfect guest to kick off Season 4 of the StaffCast as we dive into our definition of a laborer, “a person mobilized through the church to live out Christ-centered identity with Spirit-filled character, who is governed by a Biblical...

Season 4 of the Campus Outreach StaffCast is coming in September 2025.

We at CO SERVE desire for the StaffCast to encourage all Campus Outreach staff. This is a podcast by CO staff, for CO staff.

Season 4 will focus on one theme - The Definition of a Laborer. Each episode will dive into what it means to be a laborer using the following definition: 

A person mobilized through the church to live out Christ-centered identity with Spirit-...

We return for Part 2 of our conversation with James Broadaway and Stephen Murray in Cape Town, South Africa. Stephen shares his opinion about the strategic partnership that church planting and campus ministry can generate. James shares more specifically about campus ministry in Cape Town's unique context. We conclude with both James and Stephen excited for the future impact of the campus and the church, envisioning reaching pl...

Our guests this week are James Broadaway and Stephen Murray from Cape Town, South Africa. James is the Director of the Campus Outreach team, and Stephen is the pastor of Union Chapel. Both tell their stories of coming to faith and the journey that God led them toward their partnership in ministry in Cape Town. 

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We return to our conversation with Antjuan Marsh, a man who is an “uniter of people,” as our co-host Kent Bailey affectionately stated. Antjuan revisits the difficult times he endured during the COVID-19 pandemic and George Floyd protests in the early 2020s and how God desires to use everything: our experiences, talents, skills, and personalities for a hurting world that needs the gospel. Antjuan concludes the episode by sharing in...

Our guest this week is Antjuan Marsh, a CO alumnus who has been laboring in the field of public education for decades. Through his storytelling, Antjuan shares his testimony about the movement of the gospel that God brought to Troy University in the 1980s. He also shares his approach to being a laborer in public education and how the gospel breaks down the dividing wall of hostility in race relations. Antjuan charges CO staff to pr...

We return to our conversation with Nai and Bla from Khon Kaen, Thailand. They both continue to give insight into the movement that is happening in Thailand, in a region where only 2% of the population identifies as Christian, both the fruit and the challenges. Some of the challenges include equipping young men for leadership, seeing real multiplication happen for the first time, and how the local church is the key to addressing the...

Our guests this week are Nai and Bla, both veteran leaders on the team in Khon Kaen, Thailand. Nai and Bla share their testimonies of faith coming from different family backgrounds, their first contact with the gospel and how God first drew them to become laborers in His harvest field. Their experience of walking by faith speaks to so many who come from non-Christian backgrounds, no matter the culture. As Nai prepares to step into ...

We return to our conversation with Andrés Garza, Director of City to City America Latina. Andrés continues his exhortation to form strategic partnerships in order to meet the needs of the cities and continue the process of discipleship. He also shares his own experience of working in a multicultural team. Andrés closes with a heartfelt encouragement to all Campus Outreach staff, both home and abroad. 

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