Recognizing that Hesston students are at different places in their faith journeys, the college offers a variety of activities and leadership opportunities to all students, encouraging them to participate where they feel most comfortable.
Discipleship
- Worship
- Community
- Mission
Mission
- Mentoring (through Big Brothers/Big Sisters, middle school tutoring, nursing home connections and the M-2 prison visitation program
- Voluntary service efforts at the Nehemiah Project, an effort of New Jerusalem Missions/Youth with a Mission-Kansas to convert Newton’s Axtell Hospital into an AIDS hospice
- Mission/Service Emphasis Days
- Forums
- Mennonite Disaster Service
- Spring break service trips
Community
- Nest life and campus activities
- Small groups
- Bible studies
- Book studies
- 40-day accountability groups
- Nest Bible studies
Worship
- Formation
- Campus worship
- Special events (Transformation, Coffee Houses)
- Spiritual life retreats (one each semester)
- Pastor-in-residence
Ministry Inquiry Program
An opportunity for students to explore a calling to ministry through a summer internship in a congregational setting. The program is run through Mennonite Church USA and coordinated on Hesston’s campus by Campus Pastor Micah Hurst