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As you may remember, I’m speaking this morning at the Evangelical Free Church leadership conference. (Please pray for me!) The talk will address
- the importance of college ministry
- the difficult state of affairs at present (particularly within churches)
- and how to turn that tide by developing a strong College Student Plan.
And as I’ll planning to tell the people in my seminar today, you can find much more on those topics (including more pictures!) in one of two places:
- my free book, Reaching the Campus Tribes. In this case, it’s particularly from chapters 3 and 5 and the “Road Map Forward” final chapter – but honestly, reading the whole thing will give a more complete picture.
- the resource I wrote for the Building Church Leaders resource, “Ministry to College Students.” Building Church Leaders is a part of the Christianity Today family, so I was especially excited they chose to address our field!
According to the publication agreement, I’m allowed to publish the article on my own site. And seeing as how this is my own site… I’m including that below, even though it’s lengthy.
(Please note: I don’t hold the copyright on this article – they do. So feel free to read it and point others to it here, but no electronic or paper copying, please. And anyway, you should check out the whole resource! It’s solid.)
The College Student Plan for Your Church
by Benson Hines for BuildingChurchLeaders.com
If your church decided to begin a missions endeavor among a people group overseas, the first step would probably involve spending time developing the church’s mission plan. The church would get to know the people involved, pray through every possibility for ministry, examine the available resources, look for possible partnerships, consult other churches with similar efforts, and so on. While those with a heart for missions might hope to “jump right in,” wisdom would dictate a more deliberate approach.
Sadly, many churches fail to apply this same wisdom to their work with college students. While their intentions are good, many North American churches—big and small, contemporary and traditional—have Read the rest of this entry »
I mentioned yesterday that I have the chance to speak at the national EV Free church leaders’ convention this week. Today, why my topic matters to everyone in college ministry, not just churches.
I care – deeply – about college ministry in all its branches, including certainly campus-based ministry, collegiate churches, and institutional college ministry. But I personally spent lots of years in church-based college ministry. I’ve also had the chance to examine the college ministries (or lack thereof) in most of the country’s best-known churches, along with plenty of churches that aren’t as well known.
And it’s a tough scene.
The toughest (or at least most under-developed) of all the branches.
And the difficulties don’t just affect those churches. They affect all of us who hope to minister to students.
I believe one BIG solution to the difficulties – and one with BIG ramifications for other kinds of college ministry, too – is an approach that emphasizes forming the College Student Plan over the building a “classic” church college ministry.
I first mentioned College Student Plans in my book (pp. 98-103), including:
Perhaps some churches feel they must either have a full college ministry program or nothing at all. But this is simply not the case. In fact, if I began my trip with the faint illusion that every church should build a full-fledged college ministry program, my research quickly cured me of that notion. Not every church needs a standard, holistic college ministry, and obviously not every church will be able to support that level of investment. In fact, our Christian cause among campus tribes would actually be damaged if every local church began competing for the students on the campus.But every church that encounters college students must plan for that encounter.
The College Student Plan Approach to church-based college ministry begins with the assumption that every campus climate is an individual ecosystem, a culture, a “tribe.” It also recognizes that every church is different, too, including (of course) the nature of the collegians actually under its care or in its vicinity.
For a church to begin with any sort of pre-packaged “checklist” for starting its ministry is, at best, foolish. And this includes assuming that the church needs to aim for a stand-alone, full-discipling, classic “college ministry.” Nor should any church assume that its ministry to students needs to look a certain way (like the church down the street or across the state), needs to draw a certain size to be viable, or even needs to look the same season-to-season.
Instead, the College Student Plan Approach begins with “exegeting” or “decoding” the entire context. The point is exegeting before building. Sadly, most churches seem to either jump forward with lots of gusto in an “if we build it, they will come” mentality… OR they take the organic approach and just “see if we can get something going.”
As I’ve seen in churches throughout the country, these two approaches seem to have terrible overall track records.
The College Student Plan Approach urges churches to put all possibilities on the table, and carefully evaluate what’s needed where they are. Their eventual result could include one or more of the following ingredients:
- particularly focusing on their “home-grown” students, both locally and away at school, including helping them plug into college ministries that will impact them well
- pointing attending students to campus-based ministries to receive their specialized collegiate impact
- offering a really solid intergenerational experience for students who attend
- offering ministry to students that complements the work being done by other college ministries
- cooperating with like-minded churches to establish a single ministry for college students
- cooperating in direct partnership with campus-based ministries (or institutional ministries, in the case of Christian colleges)
- and yes, perhaps creating a full-fledged college ministry to impact the local campus(es)
Should some churches start “classic” college ministries? Absolutely! But one reason we should ALL care about the College Student Plan Approach is that it only implements that option when it’s best. In that way, it encourages health throughout our local campus tribes.
[Later, I reprinted an article I wrote outlining a possible process to discern a church's College Student Plan. You can find that here.]
But there’s another way the College Student Plan approach encourages health. Because it slows down the church’s process, emphasizing exegeting before proceeding, the resulting college ministry – even if it does ultimately involve a “full-fledged” college ministry – will be far healthier, a better fit within the campus community, and longer-lasting. The entire tribe is weakened when a local church’s college ministry undulates in strength over a decade, restarts constantly, or turns out to be unhealthy.
So we should all rally here, encouraging churches to weigh their attempts wisely, exegete fully, and (as needed) build strongly!
Any thoughts on this – from the church-based among us, or from ministers in the other branches?
For more info on my opportunity this week – and how you can pray, check it out here!
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As I wrote yesterday, I’m finding a 4-branch categorization most useful for thinking about American college ministry. Since it was on my mind (and since I shared about these things at my seminar last weekend), I thought I’d do a little riff on the four branches – particularly some points that might be surprising.
Again, I’m not comparing or contrasting. Just riffing.
1. Campus-based college ministry. Campus-based work is of course the best-known of the branches, so there are probably fewer “surprises” here than in the others. But for those outside of campus-based work (or even inside), a few important-but-sometimes-ignored points include:
- This is certainly the most developed branch within college ministry.
- While these ministries may look similar on the surface, each ministry has real distinctives. In fact, there is plenty of variation even within the same organizations. Some organizations, of course, have more diversity-of-methodology or diversity-of-theology than others.
- Denominational ministries and parachurch ministries are two distinct sub-categories in this branch.
- Denominational ministries don’t consider themselves fully “parachurch” (generally), since each ministry is in fact organized by churches (or, in some cases, a single church).
2. Church-based college ministry. Perhaps the hardest to pin down because so many churches have such a vicious turnover cycle (in both leadership and methodology), but here are some surprises from this branch:
- This is by far the least-developed area in the field of College Ministry (and thus the greatest opportunity for immense improvement in our field).
- While many church-based ministries have struggled, there are still plenty of them that have seen great success for many years. It’s also not entirely uncommon to find ones drawing hundreds of students.
- Even within denominations, there are very few support structures (training, resourcing, collaborating, etc.) for this branch.
3. Institutional college ministry. The spiritual life departments of Christian colleges participate in college ministry, too – and that right there is a unique thought for some. Other surprises include:
- This is the branch that seems to take professional development and wide-ranging learning most seriously.
- While many institutional college ministries are (purposely) the only recognized discipleship organization at their campus, other Christian schools allow for various ministries to reach the campus alongside them. (There are good reasons for either of these positions.)
- In recent history, this seems to have been the area of college ministry most likely to partake in campus-wide revival.
4. Collegiate churches. Those churches planted with a major purpose of reaching a campus might surprise us a little, too:
- There are a lot more of these than people seem to think. While it’s not easy to track down, at least several dozen campuses are reached by a collegiate church.
- There’s also a wider range of methodologies here than people seem to be aware of. While many of these churches are nearly student-only (except for the leadership), others have a large percentage of adults – either because members grow older and stay, the church reaches adults in the community, or the church “imports” adults in some way.
Anything you would add? Anything you would change?
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Back in October, I blogged about adding another “branch” to my categorization of college ministries. Previously, I had always discussed three branches: campus-based college ministry, church-based college ministry, and the formal discipleship that takes place in Christian colleges. I realized, however, that the prevalence and distinctives of collegiate churches might indeed merit a new branch. (I go into more detail at that post.)
I got a lot of GREAT comments on that post – I really do encourage you to check it out, because it’s a great example of some people really bringing some smarts to bear on our field.
In light of their ideas and what I’ve continued to see, I have indeed begun to refer to Collegiate Churches as a fourth branch of college ministry. This is the first major departure / addendum I’ve made to my discussion in Reaching the Campus Tribes, but it certainly seems merited. (What do you think?)
I used these categories when providing a brief overview of the “wide, wide, wonderful world of campus ministry” for students at the Jubilee Conference this weekend. Here’s the slide I used in that portion of my talk, with pics from my various trips:
- Campus-based: The Baptist Collegiate Ministries at UNC is a denominational ministry, like many campus-based ministries. Obviously, other campus-based ministries are fully parachurch.
- Church-based: “The Annex” college ministry of First Pres Boulder is one of the largest college ministries (of any kind) in the country. (And it’s hosting the upcoming Ascent Conference for church-based ministries.)
- Institutional: Asbury College. (More and more, I’m liking the term “institutional college ministry” for those ministries at Christian colleges. Credit for that term goes to Guy Chmieleski (an institutional college minister himself), who provided a similar idea in the comments on that post in October. Still, I’m open to suggestions on that one (and on any of these!).
- Collegiate Churches: This picture is from the Sunday service of New Life Church at the University of Michigan, one of the larger collegiate churches out there. Like a good number of collegiate churches, it’s connected to Great Commission Ministries.
So there you go.
Any thoughts on this categorization? Remember, placing things in categories doesn’t suggest my agreement or preferences with any of ‘em – just the reality of what’s taking place in the world of college ministry.
Also, do you have any thoughts on what I’ve titled the “fourth branch” here? In the past, I’ve tended to call these ministries “collegiate church plants,” but many of them are decades old – so “plants” might not apply so well. And the term “campus churches,” while fitting, seems to leave out the many collegiate churches that don’t actually meet on campus.
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Yesterday, I highlighted the upcoming Ascent conference, but I promised to dive a little deeper today. Anybody interested in the field of Collegiate Ministry should definitely be aware of Seattle’s University Presbyterian Church – and its “offspring,” the Ascent Network.
university pres & mike gaffney
As I wrote in Reaching the Campus Tribes,
“It might surprise some that the century-old University Presbyterian Church in Seattle probably has the most influential church-based college ministry in the nation. UPC ministers to hundreds of students in a weekly study called “The Inn,” involves a large number of adult church members, and connects likeminded college ministries through the national Ascent Network.” (page 39)
The historic influence of UPC has come through not only impacting University of Washington students for a century (longevity matters!), but also because the ministry has produced ministers. One of those former students is Mike Gaffney, who has gone on to become one of the best-respected leaders and speakers in college ministry, both among those serving on campuses and in churches.
But for the specific branch of church-based college ministry, Gaffney is unparalleled. His wisdom on church college ministry is borne from a couple of decades in the trenches of that branch. Before returning to his alma mater to lead the college ministry of University Pres in Seattle for 13 years, Gaffney started The Annex, the college ministry of First Pres Boulder. (It’s now among the very largest college ministries – of any kind – in the nation.)
A big part of the DNA of UPC (and something championed well by Gaffney) is helping connect adult volunteers with college students – a goal many in church-based college ministry have found to be elusive.
the network
While I was well aware of Mike Gaffney and UPC’s reputations when I began my yearlong trip, I was less familiar with their informal network of (mostly) church college ministries, the Ascent Network. But as I have now told many times, my ignorance was remedied as I traveled up the California coast.
During the second semester of my yearlong trip, I kept running into well-developed college ministries at Evangelical churches – in Bel Air (led at the time by my buddy Rhett Smith), in Malibu, near Stanford (that church is pastored by John Ortberg), and in Seattle. Soon enough, I would also encounter an Ascent Network campus-based ministry in Pullman, Washington, as well as The Annex (described above).
What I often found was these ministries had some staff connection back to UPC or to another Ascent Network ministry. I’ve since called this “Embodied Collaboration” – a powerful method of sharing interns and staff throughout a network in a way that strengthens everybody. That’s how the Ascent Network has formed over time; as UPC has produced future college ministers, they’ve fanned out across the country to serve.
But the Ascent Network also seems very open to helping anybody serving in the tricky world of church-based college ministry! Their stated hope is to provide the same kind of support that parachurch campus ministries often have.
So in our fragmented, underdeveloped world of college ministry, I wanted to make sure you knew about these people – and a church that has loved students for a hundred years. It might be a circle worth joining or a conference worth considering; if I was once again leading a church-based college ministry, I’d definitely look into the network… and I’m hoping to make it to this April’s conference.
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If you’re unfamiliar with Mike Gaffney, the Ascent Network, or the Ascent Conference…
…I urge you to read today and tomorrow’s posts. This is one of the premier and most reputable entities in the world of college ministry. But like many of the great groups in our underdeveloped field, it’s far less known than it should be!
Tomorrow, I’ll highlight Gaffney and his network [here's that post], but the urgent comes first.
the ascent conference – for ministers and student leaders
I’m generally quite hesitant about promoting things I haven’t personally experienced, but I wanted to highlight this spring’s Ascent Conference for a few reasons:
- the immense respect I have for the ministries and people involved
- the leader of the Ascent Network, Mike Gaffney, is one of the “deans” of the field of college ministry as a whole, and perhaps the most-respected in church-based college ministry
- church college ministers have so few solid resources for training or support
Even if you’re not in a church, this conference could be a great chance to gain further insight for your work. (I heard one denominational leader is bringing several college ministers from his region!)
But if you are a church-based college minister, this is for you especially. While the conference generally draws those from within the informal “Ascent Network,” they’re very open to others from outside that circle (like me!). And since that network includes some extremely strong college ministries, outsiders get introduced to some of the very best!
After chatting with Janie Stuart, coordinator of the Ascent Network and Conference, here’s what I know:
- This year’s conference will be held in Boulder, CO – closer for many of us than Seattle, where it has been held in the past. It’s being hosted by First Pres Boulder and its famous Annex college ministry, one of the largest college ministries (of any kind) in the U.S..
- The dates are Friday, April 16th, and Saturday, April 17th.
- Gordon MacDonald (yes, the famous author and former president of InterVarsity) is the main speaker, but of course there are plenty of others!
- The focus of this year’s conference is leadership, so invitees include college ministry staff, student leaders, and potential student leaders. This isn’t a general “college student conference” but instead focuses on having a bigger impact with this specialized audience.
- The organizers feel one of the biggest benefits is what happens between sessions, as people connect with others and iron sharpens iron. So they do some things (including keeping attendance limited) to maximize that experience. If you attend, you will likely walk away with new relationships that will bear fruit not just in a weekend, but long beyond.
- The cost is only $35, which even includes a meal. That’s crazy-cheap!
- Southwest Airlines flies to Denver…
- Here’s the main page for the Ascent Network and the conference
And a tip from your friendly college ministry explorer: that whole Boulder / Denver / Colorado Springs area has other collegiate things to investigate – like the aforementioned Annex college ministry, the Mill (the large college and young adult worship gathering at New Life Church), the gorgeous headquarters of the Navigators, Focus on the Family, the University of Colorado, Air Force Academy, Colorado State, other schools, and other college ministries. (I don’t know about you, but I love maximizing trips!)
As for me… I am hoping to attend the conference – not only because I would LOVE learning and connecting there, but also so I can share about it more knowledgeably in the future. As always, budget is the concern for me (not the $35, but the getting-there budget). But at this point, I’m hopeful that I’ll end up going.
While I’m on the subject, tomorrow I’ll be posting about the leader and network behind the Ascent Conference. As always, this stuff is for your information as a fellow college ministry learner – in hopes that we can all know and make use of the very best stuff available to us!
For more or to sign up, check out the the Ascent Network site! Or to learn about the Network and the church behind it, see tomorrow’s post.
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Merry Christmas! This week, as you and I celebrate and (hopefully) rest, I’ll be posting some Best of the Blog from 2009! Whether you missed these posts the first time or not, hopefully they’ll present some helpful, interesting, or surprising thoughts on our amazing ministry field.
One of the most-visited (and most-commented-on) posts of the year came in June, as I reflected on a unique paradox. It seems that many of the most “missional” American churches actually take a very UNmissional approach to college ministry. This is an important consideration for all kinds of college ministry, as we examine how local churches can/should be involved in reaching collegians on their terms and on their turf. Enjoy – and new comments are welcome!
On page 30 of Reaching the Campus Tribes, I broach a subject that I believe is really important for churches to ponder. The interesting dilemma is that some modern-style churches may actually impact students worse while striving to break with tradition. In fact, while trying to be more missional, some churches may end up less missional.
Some churches have opted to go the “non-traditional” route by pointing students directly to their intergenerational structures, “fully assimilating” them into the adult programs of the church. They plug them into small groups, Bible classes, or other activities alongside the church’s adults – without any opportunity for small group discipleship as college students or specialized outreach to local college campuses.
(Certainly, this sometimes takes place by default when churches haven’t taken the time to plan anything for students, leaving collegians to trickle into other areas of the church – and otherwise not stick around. That’s not what I’m talking about.)
As I write in Reaching, the full-assimilation method “certainly reflects a clear respect for college students as full members of the local congregation.” So on one hand, I applaud the motivation behind not separating college students and treating them as a distinct congregation (as one leader at a famous Emerging church described).
But for these highly missional churches, the funny thing is that this approach may be LESS missional in regard to those college students. Why? Because this method usually involves yanking them out of their actual community.
Though a college campus is located geographically within a particular area, it rarely has a high degree of sociological similarity to the rest of that area. Especially at residential colleges, many college students have one primary community – and it isn’t the local neighborhood, nor is it particularly similar to the local neighborhood. It’s the campus, and it’s (obviously) a world of its own.
This means that these otherwise missional churches are being highly “attractional” (in a sense that’s opposite from their normal efforts). If I’m not mistaken, this format pretty clearly demands that collegians leave “them” to come away with “us” to do church – both in location and in identity.
If we desire to be missional with college students, we have to think through what that means in their special case. Just as reaching our neighborhood missionally involves connecting with people “on their terms” and “on their turf,” impacting college students missionally involves recognizing their unique terms and turf, too. While it’s good for college students to get out of their small worlds some of the time, learning to live for Jesus within those worlds is vital, too.
The way I put it in the book was:
At the same time, it must be remembered that many college students’ cultural identity and community are located not in the local neighborhood but specifically within their collegiate experience. Thus any church aiming to reach people “missionally” and contextually should consider the special situation of college students. Unless efforts are made to reach campus tribes on their own terms, we may actually be missing opportunities for relevant impact in this important life stage. And we will be removing students from the very communities in which they presently have the most influence for God’s Kingdom.
I’m still thinking this one through. That’s one way we advance college ministry – through debate and rigorous thought. So while I’ll keep thinking, I did want to address this here. And I’d love to hear your thoughts – positive, negative, or illustrative.
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When discussing true “college towns,” I appreciate having the SuperExamples with names like “College Station” (where I myself went to school) and “State College,” where I’m presently spending the weekend. Now I just need to find a town called “Universityvilletown,” and I’ll be all set.
Without further ado, here are some of the best college ministry discussions, etc., from the past week!
cross-cultural campus crusade: Did you notice Campus Crusade staff were missing from your campus early this week? Or did they seem particularly interested in cross-cultural ministry? That’s because every Crusade staffer was involved in Cross ’09, apparently. Read a good description from Truman & Amber Lo, Denver Metro staff, a great testimony from Northeast Regional guy Ryan McReynolds, or a “local” take from a Northern Illinois University student newspaper, the Northern Star!
niches and other impactful routes: Accidentally left out of last week’s review is the article from the Florida Baptist Witness describing some of the more unique and impactful ministries around the state of Florida. Especially helpful to rest of us are the good niche-based ministry ideas in there!
churches connecting with collegians: Chuck Bomar requested thoughts on how students do (or don’t) connect well within local churches – and that post has drawn several solid comments so far.
millennials under non-millennials: How can Millennial leaders (whether that’s you or your students) serve well under non-Millennials? Brian Barela examines the need for proper “translation,” generation to generation.
impacting the intelligent: In response to two discussions with two Christian professors, I asked, “Does Your College Ministry Give Spiritual Support to Smarties?” earlier this week at Exploring College Ministry.
written from the Lutzes’, near State College, PA
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Road Trip 13: Days 41 & 42 recap
recap: great days in State College, topped off with attending the football game (see all explorations so far)
T-shirts: the Keelhaulers (!) of California Maritime Academy and the Bruin tribe of George Fox University
sunday: more State College explorations, then heading eastward…
I believe I first outlined my classification of the “three branches” of college ministry in a post way back in February 2008 (written only a few hundred miles south of here, during the yearlong road trip). I had variously referred to those three branches before and since, including in my book:
- Campus-based college ministry (including parachurch, denominational, and independent ministries centering their activity on the local campus)
- Church-based college ministry (ministries overseen within individual churches)
- Spiritual development at Christian colleges (the specific people or departments in Christian colleges dedicated to student discipleship, often called “spiritual life” or “chaplaincy”) (from Reaching the Campus Tribes, pages 17-18)
Those branches are distinguished, in my mind, by a few major things:
- Campus integration (the connection of the ministry to the college campus, including where it centers its activity)
- Oversight (who tends to hire, govern, and evaluate a ministry’s leaders)
- Function (the way the ministry operates and “feels,” particularly to students)
- Field reception (the lines the college ministry community has tended to draw between these areas)
While any of these factors might be clearer or fuzzier for an individual ministry, I do feel they fairly well delineate between the various branches. So using this terminology has been really helpful to me.
But as I continue to explore and ponder, I always want to be open to tweaking my approach! One question has especially led me to consider adding a “fourth branch” to my classification (it’s the first question listed below). But while I’m at it, I figured I would ask for further input. So if you’ve got any thoughts on these things, please fire away!
The big questions:
- Collegiate Church Planting is a major strategy employed on a significant number of campuses. Should it be considered a fourth branch of college ministry, or does it fit better under one of the present branches?
- Should campus-based ministry be split into two branches: denominational / church-related and fully parachurch?
- Should ministries run entirely by students be considered a separate branch of college ministry?
- What’s the best term for Branch #3? “Spiritual development at Christian colleges”? “Chaplaincy”? Something else?
- Any other adjustments you would make to this system?
Please feel free to weigh in – I’d love to hear your thoughts, arguments, questions, additions, or concerns!
written from my 7th Motel 6 in 9 days (in Vallejo, CA)
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Road Trip 13: Day 9 recap
exploring Cal State Chico, and then down to the Bay Area
T-shirt: the Fighting Illini of University of Illinois
today: Stanford and other Bay Area fun
Yesterday a site called Building Church Leaders released its latest Practical Ministry Skills resource – a packet of 
articles and other resources on Ministry to College Students! BCL is connected with Leadership Journal, and those are both part of the Christianity Today International family of publications.
So in other words, yet another major, national publication is taking a look at the field of Collegiate Ministry!
Specifically, this resource is focused on church-based ministry, though there are a few articles which could apply to any college ministry. (You can see the Table of Contents at the download page.) The packet contains eight articles, a leaders’ guide, discussion questions, and a list of resources for further study. The articles are very applicable and even include a few topics that aren’t discussed nearly enough. Importantly, this group of articles is also fitting for a wide range of churches – from churches that will never have a classic, “full-fledged” college ministry but want to impact however they can… to those churches that might be able to make a large investment in this area.
In my own contributions to this resource, I had the chance to boldly state some things that churches desperately need to hear. One of my articles even lays out the process of creating a College Student Plan, which I’d argue may be the biggest widespread “fix” needed within church-based college ministry. While I discuss that idea briefly in the final chapter of my book, the article in “Ministry to College Students” covers that idea – and the process involved – more extensively than I have anywhere else.
I do encourage you to consider getting this resource for your church, and to point churches and college ministers to these great, practical articles.
The resources at BCL can be downloaded for a fee ($14.95 in this case) – BUT that includes rights to make up to 1,000 copies for church or educational settings (which is generous licensing for something like this). So it’s perfect for purchasing for your church, using for collegiate leadership training, sharing with your student leaders, or sharing in a classroom setting. Further, this packet is free for Building Church Leaders members OR for those enjoying the 14-day Free Trial.
- Click here to see how BCL works
- Click here to look at membership or the Free Trial
- Click here to go to this resource’s download site
It’s exciting that this resource could provide a helpful foundation for possibly hundreds of new efforts to impact college students in the coming years. And remember, if we’ll step up and purchase resources like this (and/or get others to do the same), then publishers will notice – and continue to put out better and better materials.
I’m having a blast joining 60 college ministry student leaders from Texas A&M on their retreat. I’ll be speaking twice today and then heading back home tonight. (More details on my Schedule.)
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