When Sydney Cox, 21, arrived on the University of Texas’s Austin campus in fall 2021, she was eager to find her people. During the worst of the pandemic, she had spent her freshman year attending classes over Zoom. Then, at the beginning of the second semester, she attended a kickoff event for the Texas Wesley Foundation, a Methodist campus ministry group founded at the school in 1923. Sydney had grown up Methodist and thought she knew what to expect from a Christian student organization. And that was huge to me.”It was the community Sydney had been looking for.

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Persons: Sydney Cox, Wesley, “ It’s, ” Organizations: University of Texas’s, Texas Wesley Foundation, Methodist Locations: Sydney