The Campus House has served students in the Greater Birmingham Area for more than two decades. It sits a few blocks south of the UAB campus and hosts gatherings, worship, small groups, weekly meals, campfires, and a place to connect. It is a big, old house sitting on the corner of 13th Ave. S and 15th St. S serving as the gathering place, worship facility, ministry office, and center of our campus outreach. Johnny Lieske has served on Encounter's staff as our Campus Minister and Director of Campus Ministry since 2015. Please read more below for updates on this exciting adventure.
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If you would like to support Johhny's work you can help fuel the ministry by making a one-time or recurring tax-deductible donation at the button below.
Welcome to the Campus House! I’m Johnny Lieske, the Campus Minister and Director of The Campus House. It’s been a joy to serve here. I am excited to start my fourth year in this role. I am originally from Northern Illinois, and my journey to Birmingham is still teaching me that God’s plans are different, bigger, and more adventurous than anything I could have dreamed.
My dream of playing professional baseball took me from Illinois State University to Heartland Community College and finally to UAB for my final two years where I received my degree in Communications, but my baseball career came to an end.
Through the invitation of a UAB baseball teammate, I was introduced to the Campus House. It had such and impact on me that upon graduating UAB I accepted an offer to become the full-time Campus Minister. It is amazing to look back at what God provided in my life just by being a part of the ministry, and how a simple invitation from a friend turned into a such a larger story.
My mission is to provide a place where students of all backgrounds can come as they are and be connected to each other and God in a community of Christian faith and ultimately serve and love others like Jesus did. I know what it is to feel confused, lost, spiritually down and out, and alone on the journey through college. Campus House provides a place to connect with others battling the pressures of college life.
Since settling into my role as Campus Minister in 2015, I have gotten married to my beautiful and fun-loving wife, Avery, we own two pups (Leo and Malibu). If not around the Campus House you can find me at the Rec center climbing the rock wall with students, serving others around town, watching Lord of the Rings, or having conversations about God and life around campus or our firepit.
Come and see for yourself as we strive to provide a Christian environment where we grow together serving and loving students, our community, and beyond.
See you soon!
Johnny
Director and Campus Minister
The Campus House
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