Annual Report 2023
As the Father sent me, I am sending you.
JOHN 20:21
"Location, Location, Location." You may not know it, but StuMo lives by this quote. The truth of the gospel travels best in the context of relationships. And relationships are all about Location. The Father sent us the Law, the prophets and an occasional angel. This was not enough. Jesus changed locations. He came down to the earth and lived in a human body. Immanuel had to be with us!
We only have one strategy, which is to personally connect face-to-face with the next generation. Our staff move to college cities and walk uphill both ways to and from the campus – just as Jesus walked the earth. I love how StuMo staff show up for vulnerable freshmen! They plan get-togethers, tournaments, Bible studies and fun events to meet and socialize in person. They want to be with them and get to know them. That’s love!
You’ll be excited to read more about my heroes – your StuMo staff leaders. You are doing a great thing by sending them all over the world! A significant portion of your gifts go directly to the idea of Location, whether it’s travel expenses to the campus or the conference, overseas to an unreached city or even paying for a student’s road trip to the Kaleo summer project.
Jesus got really mad a couple of times. One of his hottest moments was when his own disciples stood between him and the children! Jesus quickly solved the location problem. He had come a long way to be near them.
As the Father sent Jesus, I’m grateful you are sending StuMo people to our next generation of young leaders. They desperately need Jesus to come near them. Thank you for making that happen!
26 Staffed Campuses
A Staffed Campus is an established campus to which we have committed a staff team and the campus ministry has been going on for more than two full years.
New Campus Spotlight
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY
We are in full swing with our first fall at Mississippi State. Our staff are loving their time on campus as the Lord has provided immense amounts of favor with students here. We have been laser-focused as we’ve set out to do three things this fall:
1. Build relationships with students in key affinity groups on campus.
2. Share the truth about Jesus with as many students as possible in these particular groups.
3. Recruit a high number of students to our annual winter conference, SMC.
We’ve seen multiple key students place their trust in Jesus this fall and are excited to bring students with us to SMC. We are eagerly praying and trusting that the Lord will multiply the lives of each of our staff on campus for his glory. Hail State!
Launching in Fall 2024
University of Colorado
Stumo is headed back to CU Boulder! After not having staff on campus there for the last 4 years we are excited to announce that we will have a new staff team headed to CU next year.
Earlier this semester we took a trip to Boulder with our team. We met students from the Bay Area, NYC, Phoenix, Denver, LA, and many other places. None of them know Christ. We are excited to launch onto a campus with 35,000 students—many who are lost and from all over the country.
Pray for laborers at CU! Sko Buffs!
Clemson University
When we think of a word that describes why we’re excited about a StuMo ministry starting at Clemson, we think of the word “potential.”
The campus is growing, the enrollment is increasing, and students from all over the country are choosing to attend Clemson University. These students are driven, they are leaders, and they have so much potential as future leaders living to have an impact for Christ.
We pray that God would open up doors to many different affinity groups on campus, and that soon there will be a thriving community of men and women who are living for Christ and are a light to those around them at Clemson.
University of Houston
StuMo is set to launch at the University of Houston in Fall 2024! UH is the 3rd largest school in Texas (more than 47,000 students) and Houston is the 4th largest city in America. As we explored campus, we met several students and asked this question: “If you wanted to grow in your faith in college, where would you go?” The response broke our hearts as every student we asked shared that they had no idea what to do if they were interested. They had no one initiating with them spiritually to share the truth of Christ.
What could God do if this campus and city were saturated with laborers? Pray for God to raise up generations of laborers at the UH!
741 Salvations
606 Laborers*
*A Laborer is defined as a disciple who shares the gospel multiple times a semester, takes initiative to lead others spiritually and is committed to spiritual multiplication
160 Grads Mobilized
Ministry After College
Our vision is to meet college students, reach them with the gospel, establish them in their faith, equip them for ministry and send them out as laborers for a lifetime.
Drew
Dallas, TX
Drew started to follow Christ during his junior year of college at the University of Oklahoma after a pledge bother named Beau started processing the gospel with him. That year, Drew ended up going to Kaleo with a handful of his fraternity brothers, where he began to grow in his new relationship with God and build spiritual disciplines that would begin to transform his life. Not only did he begin to grow in his walk with God, but Drew began to catch vision for laboring in his fraternity, sharing the gospel with his fraternity brothers. Since graduating, this vision hasn’t faded. His desire to see people around him come to know Jesus spread into his post-graduate relationships through his job at Goldman Sachs in Dallas, TX. On the floor of his office building, Drew started an investigative Bible study with 20-30 coworkers. Since starting this study, Drew has been able to share and process the gospel with many of them.
Ally came to college at Mizzou not seeking to keep faith a casual part of her life, and attended a weekly faith discussion in her sorority. After building a friendship with an older girl in the house involved with StuMo and having the Gospel shared with her many times over a year, she began to follow Christ! She attended Kaleos in college and was discipled, as well as learned to share the Gospel with her friends. Post-college, she wanted to continue to be developed and have opportunities to do full-time ministry and has been working with CO in Birmingham, England for the past two years. She recently completed their LEAD program and recommitted indefinitely to laboring on college campuses there with the team!
Ally
Birmingham, England
SMC (StuMo Conference)
SMC 2023 marked three years of hosting two SMC locations to increase access to our annual winter conference. For the past three years, students have gathered in both Branson, MO and Dallas, TX for 4 days of their winter break where they have been challenged to grow in their faith and make an impact on their friends and family.
In 2023, 3,150 students from 43 different campuses gathered in both Branson and Dallas to hear from dynamic speakers across the country about what it looks like to follow Christ in college. We are excited to see all that God does through SMC, again, in a few short weeks!
3,150 Students
43 Campuses
"SMC showed me just how much I want and need God to be the center of my life."
- Alyssa, Northwest Missouri State University
"The main sessions at SMC had a big impact on me by showing me what it truly means to follow Christ."
- Emma, Texas State University
“God showed me how great He truly is and how much I owe all my time and efforts to His kingdom.”
- Josiah, Kansas State University
"I have found a new sense of trust in the Lord and His purpose, love, and word."
- Taylor, University of Central Oklahoma
For over 40 years StuMo has hosted a summer growth experience called Kaleo. “Kaleo” is a Greek word that means, “To call, summon or invite.” StuMo staff and student leaders invite students to invest their summers in a nine-week discipleship and leadership development program which has become known as “The Summer of Your Life.”
For 60 days, college students from all over the nation live together in close quarters, get jobs in the community, learn to study the Bible, commit to attending and serving at local churches and grow lifelong friendships. They learn to share their faith in Jesus and then interact with co-workers and beachgoers about the gospel. While at Kaleo students will attend multiple conferences such a Relationships Conference and Missions Conference where they will learn about God’s design for these topics through Biblical teaching. For many students who have dealt with a lifetime of addiction to things such as pornography, alcohol, relationships and more, Kaleo is an opportunity to share struggles and gain hope from education on addictions, loving accountability and support.
Thank you for supporting the Kaleo Summer Projects in Orlando, Gulf Shores and Palm Coast. You are investing in the moms, dads, teachers, business leaders, pastors and missionaries of the future!
Kaleo 2023
Kaleo Attendance
“Kaleo really taught me the key ingredients of learning how to discern and understand God’s Word, which has allowed me to impact my friends and family through the Word of God.”
- Antonio, Kansas State University
Gulf Shores, AL
Students from Kansas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and North Missouri universities
771
total Kaleo attendees
across 6 different projects
771 Students
387 Student Leaders
6,984 Gospel Shares
The Summer of Your Life
Student from Oklahoma shares why Kaleo was a summer to remember.
Kaleo Home Base
$16 Million Committed! $5 Million Left to Go!
For the past five years, the ministry of Student Mobilization has been prayerfully and actively seeking a solution to the greatest threat to our mission of reaching and mobilizing college students to churches, ministries and communities in the U.S. and around the world. Kaleo Home Base will stabilize and synergize Student Mobilization’s most important and strategic work, the Kaleo Summer Project, and serve a generation of spiritual leaders.
Student Mobilization is a multiplying and emerging ministry. Yet StuMo’s spiritual catalyst, Kaleo, is losing access to its environment. Consistent access to beach city locations for Kaleo is no longer possible.
The goal of Kaleo Home Base is to transform our access to a strategic ministry environment from “uncertain and energy-consuming” to “stable and synergizing.” Kaleo Home Base – Phase 1 constructs 40 housing units on 12-and-a-half acres of land owned by StuMo in West Bay, Florida. The location is six miles from the beach between Panama City Beach and the Northwest Florida Beaches airport.
Phase 1 can host eight students in each 1300 sq. ft. family-sized unit and host 250+ students and our StuMo leaders and families. Kaleo Home Base will be our ministry command post, our “rebel base,” to train and develop a new generation of spiritual leaders by the sea – just as Jesus did.
We are so grateful for so many visionary and generous families who love the next generation of leaders. Together, we will establish a strategic location for God to work year after year through the Kaleo Summer Project.
Overseas Update
1,580
number of people that had exposure to the gospel this year that live in unreached* parts of the world.
572
number of people that have been given decision opportunities to respond to the gospel message.
Will you pray for the unreached* people?
"I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth."
(1 Corinthians 3:6-7)
*Unreached people groups refer to a group of people that have very few, if any, local believers.
STUMO IN JAPAN
We have much to be thankful for this past year in Tokyo as the Lord sends more workers to Japan and continues to draw more Japanese to Himself. This year our staff have committed to the goal of sowing the gospel among as many Japanese friends as possible, and we believe our labors have honored the Lord. Hundreds of people in Tokyo have relationally been told the good news of Jesus Christ, resulting in many friends now truly seeking after the Lord, very close to personal decisions of faith for salvation. It has been our joy and privilege this year to welcome back short-term StuMo teams to Japan after a four year wait due to extended coronavirus related travel restrictions. We hosted over 40 students and StuMo staff from the states on one-week teams during spring break and over 30 students and staff across three different six-week summer teams.
500
exposed to the Gospel
150
given decision opportunities
17
missionaries serving in Tokyo
Organizationally we have grown this year with the launch of our second StuMo team in a new area of Tokyo. Now with two teams and 17 staff in this city, we are excited for more Japanese people to be engaged spiritually and experience the hope and joy found in Jesus. We have also onboarded our first administrative staff member with more on the way, thus increasing the health and effectiveness of our staff as a whole. Our church plant Kaleo Gospel Church continues to mature, with us outgrowing the small neighborhood cafe we had been meeting at and now gathering at a local theatre for worship. The new Tokyo StuMo team in Shibuya has been focused on cultivating evangelistic relationships this past year and is ready to begin planting a new church in their vicinity over the coming months!
With our eyes fixed on Christ, we seek to persevere through the challenges of living and ministering in Japan, be it homesickness, loneliness, difficulty adjusting to the culture and language, or frequent rejection of our message. We know the Lord is good and we remain committed to bringing the much-needed hope of Jesus to the Japanese people.
"With our eyes fixed on Christ, we seek to persevere through the challenges of living and ministering in Japan, be it homesickness, loneliness, difficulty adjusting to the culture and language, or frequent rejection of our message. We know the Lord is good and we remain committed to bringing the much-needed hope of Jesus to the Japanese people."
StuMo in Tokyo, Japan
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Jia
TOKYO, JAPAN
Jia found herself feeling empty and alone. A Christian friend of Jia’s prayed for her, and this reminded Jia of the love and joy of the Lord and she surrendered her life to Christ that day. Just a few months after her life change, she met some of our Tokyo StuMo staff who now get to pour into her and help her share her faith on her college campus.
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April 2023
In April, over 300 StuMo staff gathered in Tulsa for our annual StuMo Staff Conference. Our content was centered around our theme Living in Light of Eternity. Stumo Staff Conference was a time of reflection, celebration, and development, and it's always a highlight for our staff as they get to see friends and co-workers from other StuMo campuses.
A recap of Staff Conference 2023:
Finances
Audited financial statements are available upon request. Please reach out to accounting@stumo.org to request a copy.
Support and Revenue
Contributions
Summer Project Contributions
Program and Conference Fees
Sales Income
Other Income
Total Support and Revenue
$23,069,860
$2,191,392
$1,929,961
$134,497
$248,950
$27,574,660
Expenses
Program Services
Management and General
Fundraising
Total Expenses
$21,287,457
$1,671,950
$2,348,076
$25,307,483
Executive Leadership
Board of Directors
Welcome our New Staff!
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Thank You!
Thank you for your generous giving and your gracious prayers this year. They have been instrumental in God's work through Student Mobilization. We believe God can use us together even more as we trust Him in 2024!
Below are four giving ideas for investing spiritually in the next generation through StuMo. We are grateful for you and look forward to partnering with you in 2024!