STRIDE began in the fall of 2008 as a grassroots nine-month campus evangelism practicum where students and young professionals enrolled as missionary interns use evangelism skills learned in the classroom and apply them in their everyday lives and on their assigned campuses. Students are challenged to demonstrate that it is possible to be part of a movement that is Bible-based, life-changing, and evangelistic while studying and working in a secular environment. Funds are to train 16 recently graduated 12th graders in a summer program to equip them to be missionaries on their secular campuses.