Jubilee Africana & Latino 2008
The Jubilee conference gathers thousands of students every year to help them catch a vision for how their Christian faith should inform the way they study, play, work and live out every area of life. Jubilee is about developing today’s students to become tomorrow’s leaders.
One of those leaders is CCO staff member Gene Tibbs. In 1998, Gene founded Jubilee Africana as an attempt to more directly address concerns of African-American students. A decade later, Jubilee Africana and its sister sub-conference, Jubilee Latino, continue to hone in on concerns of minority students and educate others about what it means to be the true, multiethnic body of Christ.
Gene is a native of Pittsburgh’s Hill District and has been ministering to college students since 1990, shortly after his own graduation from Geneva College. He has spent most of those 18 years reaching out to students at the University of Pittsburgh.
Jubilee is a conference that focuses on faith and vocation, emphasizing for students that God is and needs to be a part of our calling into whatever career we will ultimately pursue. Jubilee Africana & Latino is a conference-within-the-conference that deals with faith, culture and ethnicity; God cares as much about our ethnic and culture identity as he does our vocational pursuits.
Jubilee Africana & Latino 2008 will focus on what it means to be both a follower of Jesus Christ and a person of African, Latino or Hispanic descent. By examining our cultural histories, we will try to reconcile what has been done to these people groups in the past and the effects of this on the present, emphasizing that God’s plan is for our good in the midst of it all. Jubilee Africana & Latino provides space for students to ask questions that they have been wrestling with, even those they have not yet been able to articulate.