Campus House Church

Purdue Christian Campus House is a non-denominational church community in the heart of Purdue’s campus that serves hundreds of students each year. I didn’t show up at Campus House Church with a creative briefs, discovery meetings, and an invoice. I showed up as a student volunteer — graphic design wasn’t listed on the “get involved” form, so I made my own box. That turned into an internship or what I like to call the “we should probably pay this guy” phase, then part-time through grad school, then full-time, then back to part time—what a wild ride.  Being inside meant the same person who weighed in on web-based communication strategy also got to build the website that brand lived on, develop graphics, campaign emails, and help ideate new innovative projects. That’s a joe-of-all-trades wearer-of-many-hats advantage operating for over a decade.

I helped steward the brand into a communications guide and onto a new website, rebuilt from a developer-friendly site into a dynamic WordPress build the staff could eventually run themselves — rotating slides, calendar events, podcasts, sermon live streams, and more.

The thread I cared most about holding was telling the story of what God was doing on campus, not just reporting what the staff had gotten done. That conviction carried straight into the Reframing the House capital campaign, where I served on the communications team shaping donor experience, fundraising strategy, the campaign website, and a series of many newsletters campaigns. I also helped push a few ideas the campaign hadn’t planned on — most notably a real focus on lapsed supporters, the people who’d drifted off the list but hadn’t stopped caring. Of everything here, it’s work where the whole reason for being is most plainly true — telling the greatest story, about the greatest story.