Who We Are

While NCM reaches, welcomes, and disciples students from various backgrounds, our staff converse from a place of affirming The Baptist Statement of Faith and Message: http://www.sbc.net/bfm2000/bfm2000.asp.

What We Do

As a campus organization, church based ministry, or collegiate church-plant, Northwest Collegiate Ministries (NCM) exists to help students discover what it means to have a meaningful relationship with Christ through local church involvement, evangelism, discipleship, missions, leadership, and small groups.

It is our hope students, both Christian and non-Christian, have an environment in which they can ask questions and discover what it means to be a Jesus follower.

What We Believe

NCM's passion and structure revolves around five main values:

Growth, Service, Community, Unity, and Diversity. 

We believe that Jesus, as the Son of God, is the most important person that anyone in this world could ever pursue relationship with; we believe that He pursued relationship with us first through His death and resurrection. We also believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God. 1 John 2:3-6 says that those who claim to believe Jesus' Word and have relationship with Him "ought to walk in the same way in which He walked." It is therefore our desire to see fellow students experience GROWTH as they seek to more and more reflect Jesus' love, grace, and truth. We encourage growth through large group worship settings, small group Bible discussions, various conferences throughout the year, mentoring relationships, leadership opportunities, and one-on-one-discipleship meetings.

We believe that Jesus was a servant leader who left a remarkable example. Philippians 2:1-11 teaches that we should look not only to "our own interests, but also the interests of others." We believe that we exist here to love and serve those around us in a way that shares Hope. We encourage SERVICE in five contexts: the Campus, the City, the Church, the United States, and the World. We host monthly service projects in our community and provide opportunities for students to join us on mission/service trips in a variety of different places both over Spring Break and Summer term. 

We believe that Jesus modeled a life of COMMUNITY with His disciples and friends. We believe that through 1 Peter 4:9-10 Jesus mandates that we make hospitality a regular part of our lives. 2 Corinthians 13:11 encourages us to "rejoice. aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace." The result? The God of love and peace will be with us! We believe that God With Us reflects the ultimate expression of community--the Trinity--Three-in-One. In order to facilitate community, NCM hosts fun events meant to provide opportunities to build intentional, gospel-centered friendships--some of which will far out-last students' academic career.

We believe that Jesus requires UNITY of the Church around central issues of the Gospel. We believe that differences in minor issues of doctrine or in application is what makes the Church interesting and whole. Ephesians 4:1-6 encourages us to be "eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." Because of this, NCM partners with other campus groups, not-for-profit organizations, and churches who share the same theological beliefs about salvation. We gladly seek to host at least one event a term in conjunction with the larger Christian community as a whole at PSU. 

We believe that Jesus loves DIVERSITY. Despite the cultural context into which Jesus was born, He constantly challenged the cultural norms of His day. He valued the nations that the Jews hated, gave women places of honor and respect, spoke to children even when others deemed Him too busy for them, and showed compassion and restored dignity to those who found themselves trapped in sinful and destructive lifestyle patterns. NCM seeks to provide an environment that is safe to find authentic friendships across the often potential boundaries of race, faith-background, nationality, language, gender-identity, or social/class status. 

NCM is a PSU-recognized, affliate student group and a non-profit organization. Any ideas we express do not and are not meant to express the opinion of the larger Portland State University institution, staff, or alumni. 

In short: NCM exists to provide a contemporary setting and safe space wherein students can dialogue about their spiritual concerns, experience authentic celebration, tangibly serve locally and abroad, freely share their faith, thrive in community among their peers, build lasting, life-giving identity, and grow through intentional mentoring relationships and leadership opportunities. Students of all spiritual backgrounds, experience, and participation are welcome!