About Us

Who we are:

MarketLife is a collaborative team of restless Central Ohio campus and marketplace ministry leaders who since 2000 have decided to strive to co-discover innovations that have real potential to impact the marketplace for Christ in this generation. We do this by trying to think out of the box and then joint-venture towards solutions...together.

Who we are not:

A group of brilliant, non-practioning discontents who have all the answers and personal perfection to rule the world.

A Humbling and Huge Problem:

Recent George Barna research continues to confirm a heartbreaking reality: the vast majority of discipled seniors from Campus Crusade for Christ, Navigators, Intervarsity and other national and local campus ministries, leave their campus and enter the marketplace with three severe deficiencies:

they lack a robust Biblical view of work,
they lack resources to direct their approach to optimally enter and engage the market,
they lack supportive/accountable relationships with teams of others that are ready to intentionally “mentor” the student towards optimally ministering in the market.

The result of this tragic neglect not only produces otherwise avoidable suffering among the students, but a deepened neglect of the market mission fields to which they venture.

A Modest Joint-Venture Proposal:

MarketLife members are beginning to engage other campus and market ministry staff leaders in conversations that are helping us all acknowledge the problem and be on the fore-front of providing solutions. However, there is not yet in place a plan, process or project that intentionally “links” seniors from campus-to-market to prove the efficacy (do these things really work?)of investing in this bridge. To address this challenge MarketLife has determined to design, finance and implement a Central Ohio Campus-to-Market “ BRIDGE ” three year pilot project to serve marketplace-entering Christ-following seniors.