Campus Salt Christian Fellowship is a BTC student-led club under the ASB and is a chapter of a local 501(c)3 missions organization, Campus Salt Christian Mission.
We want to share about Jesus in a friendly, relational way, and to encourage and equip Christian students to reach out to their peers.
Campus Salt Christian Fellowship began in 2019 when three house church pastors (Mitch Senti, Jeff Grothe, and Peter Rust) started visiting Bellingham Technical College and talking with students about Jesus. We quickly realized that in order to be effective, we needed to partner with Christian students, faculty and staff, and we needed to commit more time to outreach.
After that we started meeting with a group of students, our efforts were derailed when the campus shut down due to Covid. So from 2020-2021 we focused on interviewing students off-campus and creating a video and audio podcast that showcased student testimonies and technical skills.
When campus started reopened the following school year, we started meeting in the evenings, handing out flyers, and surveying students to get to know them and where they were coming from spiritually.
In 2022-2023, we realized that the cafeteria was the best place to connect with non-Christian students, so we doubled-down on outreach during the lunch hour. We also started a prayer team and started prioritizing prayer before and during outreach. And we started doing more intentional one-on-one discipleship and we moved our evening meeting to the lunch hour, since it's a challenge for BTC students to come back to the campus in the evening.
Along with several Prayer Warriors.
The ministry began as an outreach of the Bellingham House Church Network, in partnership with Envision Mission. It is now an independent 501(c)3 ("Campus Salt Christian Mission"), with partners from Hope In Christ and other local churches.
We are not officially connected with a regional or national campus ministry, but are informally connected with CCF and hope to partner with them in the future.
Our goal is to have a variety of denominations represented on our Board and among the students and churches we work with, so our Statement of Faith is intentionally broad: we adhere to the Apostles' Creed, as well as traditional understandings of holiness and Christian practice.
That said, there are a few things we are passionate about, that we hope are reflected throughout the ministry: