As a child, when Dusty Harrison showed in the church people thought, what a cute kid, heā€™ll break hearts one day. As Harrison has grown and matured heā€™s became more than the cute kid in the neighborhood, heā€™s working on college campuses to make a difference.

Harrison is a representative for Greek Intervarsity, a ministry of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship. This year, for the first time ever, Greek Intervarsity takes its place at Clemson University as one of many campus ministries already on site, but none reaching out specifically to fraternity and sorority students in need of spiritual refreshment.

Greek Intervarsity offers a niche for these students within a large campus and allows them an opportunity to engage their faith. For Harrison at UNC-Chapel Hill it brought 25,000 students down to a family. As an incoming freshman and fraternity member, Harrison noticed a sign at a table that asked, ā€œCan your Faith and Fraternity Coexist?ā€ The UNC Greek Intervarsity representative David Shepley provided an avenue for Harrison and others to capture the best of both worlds, fully Greek and fully Christian.

ā€œI met a different Jesus my sophomore year at UNC,ā€ Harrison states.

ā€œJesus hung out with people who were marginal in society and cared for them unconditionally. The Bible tells us to be ā€˜in the world, but not of it.ā€™ Greek Intervarsity encourages students not to drop out of their fraternity or sorority but to enlighten their brothers and sisters in faith and fellowship within their Greek organizations. As a college student, I met Christians who thought you couldnā€™t be in a fraternity if you were a Christian and their reaction was one of surprise and sometimes, disdain when they learned I had pledged.ā€

Harrisonā€™s task will be to gather students together, within the framework of their fraternities and sororities, encourage them to live the Christian life, then scatter those students out to encourage others. For those, who for a number of reasons may not be attending a church in college, he will try to plug them in to area churches.

Harrisonā€™s vision is to include all fraternities and sororities in this movement, including the National Pan-Hellenic Council, made up of historically black and multi cultural fraternity and sororities.

ā€œIā€™d like to use the gospel to bridge the racial and cultural gap that exists on campus and in the Greek system so that we can better understand each other.ā€

Like most campus ministers, Harrison is responsible for raising his own base of financial support from local churches, families and alumni to fund Greek Intervarsity at Clemson. As part of a National Initiative of Greek Intervarsity to plant new ministries on campuses across the US, Harrison is one of 12 chapter planters for 2007-2008.

In his first semester of ministry at Clemson, Harrison has spent most of his time meeting students, faculty, local pastors, and community members in order to share the vision of Clemson Greek Intervarsity. In light of the recent fire at Ocean Isle Beach, which resulted in the death of six USC students and one Clemson student ā€” all members of Greek organizationsā€”Dusty was available for prayer for grieving students at Clemson. As a result, a Bible study for students in fraternities and sororities has begun meeting on campus on Thursday nights to serve as a safe place for students to investigate Christianity, and learn how to better serve their Greek brothers and sisters.

ā€œIt is tragedies like the fire at Ocean Isle and the Viginia Tech shooting last year that remind us just how vulnerable the college campus really is. It is my prayer, that Greek Intervarsity would be a unique Christian community at Clemson where students can come as they are to experience God and leave transformed and equipped to be a part of a movement for positive change on campus and for life after college,ā€ Harrison said.

As of October 6 Harrison became a married man. His wife, Christin, is the administrative assistant to the Human Resources Manager for the City of Clemson and shares her husbandā€™s vision for Greek Intervarsity.

If you would like to know more about Greek Intervarsity Ministries, visit their website at, http://www.greekintervarsity.org, if you would like to donate follow the links to donate or you may contact Dusty Harrison at dustyharrison@gmail.com or by phone at 1-336-403-8609.