Interview with Bart Campolo

Interview: Campolo and his recruiters have trouble finding Christians willing to devote a year to urban ministry | John Dawson

Bart Campolo founded Mission Year, a long-term urban ministry, in the mid-1990s after a meeting with his father, Tony Campolo, and an anonymous philanthropist. Mission Year places 18 to 29 year olds in blighted urban neighborhoods for one year. Mission Year's motto, "Love God/Love People/Nothing Else Matters" seems like it would catch on in the evangelical world. Still, 10 years after the group's founding, Campolo and his recruiters have trouble finding Christians willing to devote a year to urban ministry.

WORLD: If you look at New Testament teaching, it seems fairly clear that we're to be oriented toward service to others. If that's the teaching, why doesn't our Christian culture reflect that?