Comments on: college ministers & one-track-mindedness

By: weekly review, upstate NY edition « Exploring College Ministry blog (daily notes about our field)

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:29:13 +0000

[...] As I’ve argued recently (like Nick noted in his intro post), college ministers should be good at viewing what we learn through the lens of our calling! (Hopefully Nick will be adding to this mini-series on the conference, so check for new [...]

By: mike frost at renov8 « symbiosis

mike frost at renov8 « symbiosis — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:43:11 +0000

[...] university ministers, and what there is tends to be a long way from Canada, so I’ll be taking Benson’s advice and doing my best to co-opt this thing and attend it with a collegiate slant to glean what I can [...]

By: Steve Lutz

Steve Lutz — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:19:07 +0000

Kirby–thanks for drawing attention to that fantastic quote.

As a campus minister here at PSU, I can tell you that JoePa–a devout catholic, and a driving force behind our spiritual center here on campus–takes those words to heart.

Agreed that its a fantastic quote for campus ministers to reflect on!

By: Kirby

Kirby — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:20:28 +0000

I just read an article about Joe Paterno Head Football coach @ Penn State University in Sports Illustrated and here is something that he had said to one of his sons – currently an assistant coach at the school – a few years back.

“You’ll understand, once you have kids, that life changes. You’ll find that your happiness is defined by your least happy child. You’ll understand. Every player we have, someone—maybe a parent, a grandparent, someone—poured their life and soul into that young man. They are handing that young man off to us. They are giving us their treasure, and it’s our job to make sure we give them back that young man intact and ready to face the world.”

What a great example of college ministry! Joe Pa has a passion to make a difference, and it shows through, what am I doing? I’m pretty sure this is now my new purpose statement for my ministry and life.