The STEP Leadership Team, which helps organize ecumenical events for college students and is the primary national ministry for college Disciples, has added two new students.

Katie Griffin, a junior at Eastern Kentucky University from Bethany Christian Church in Evansville, Indiana, is an elementary education major. Beau Underwood, a junior at Eureka College from First Christian Church in Princeton, Illinois, is a political science and history major heading to ministry.

Selected from a national pool of applicants, Beau and Katie will be joining three other Disciples on the 10-member team:

• Natalee Cayton, a photography major at Webster University from Oklahoma City;
• Leslie Dobyns, an arts management major at Culver-Stockton College from Peoria, Illinois; and
• Jon Hall, a religion major at Transylvania University from Huntsville, Alabama.

STEPnetwork.org hosts a listserv with almost 100 subscribers and provides a forum to discuss issues facing the church and opportunities to interact with other college Christians and to find service opportunities. STEP also serves as a link between the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and other ecumenical affiliations. STEP Leadership Team members also serve on the Council for Ecumencial Student Christian Ministry (CESCM) and the World Student Christian Federation.

Higher Education and Leadership Ministries, which coordinates STEP for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), works to nurture transforming leadership for the church in partnership with Disciples congregations, higher education institutions, campus ministry programs, regions, general ministries, and other parts of the church.